Zonder Meer
TITLE
Zonder Meer
DIRECTOR
Meltse Van Coillie
COUNTRY
Belgium
YEAR
2020
DURATION
14′
GENRE
Fiction
Zonder Meer
A campsite in the summer holidays, aimless days spent in the shade of trees. Sunlight is glittering on the lake, but nobody is allowed to swim here. A boy has disappeared and may have drowned. Five-year-old Lucie is trying to understand what is going on around her. How long can you hold your breath?
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Meltse Van Coillie
Meltse Van Coillie (1992) obtained an academic Master in Film Studies at the University of Ghent in 2014. Afterwards she joined the Eramus Mundus program DOC NOMADS, for which she made several short documentary films in Hungary and Portugal. By the end of 2015 she returned back to Belgium to pursue a broader education in audiovisual arts at KASK, School of Arts in Ghent, where she graduated in 2018. Her graduation film ELEPHANTFISH received the prestigious VAF Wildcard Filmlab that same year. The awarded production budget resulted in a second short film: ZONDER MEER, which had its international premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2021. Currently she is developing a third short film, which will be shot during the polar night in Greenland in January 2022.
- Director Meltse Van Coillie
- Screenplay Meltse Van Coillie
- CinematographyHarm Dens
- Editing Meltse Van Coillie, Harm Dens
- Cast Lucie Wyns, Jeroom Smeyers, Lone Genar, Eva Binon, Patrick Vervueren
- Producer/s Peter Brosens
- Production Company Bo Films
- Distributor/s Hamburg Short Film Agency
- Project Title Zonder Meer
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date November 12, 2021
- Country of origin Belgium
- Country of filming
- Language Dutch
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Meltse Van Coillie
Meltse Van Coillie (1992) obtained an academic Master in Film Studies at the University of Ghent in 2014. Afterwards she joined the Eramus Mundus program DOC NOMADS, for which she made several short documentary films in Hungary and Portugal. By the end of 2015 she returned back to Belgium to pursue a broader education in audiovisual arts at KASK, School of Arts in Ghent, where she graduated in 2018. Her graduation film ELEPHANTFISH received the prestigious VAF Wildcard Filmlab that same year. The awarded production budget resulted in a second short film: ZONDER MEER, which had its international premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2021. Currently she is developing a third short film, which will be shot during the polar night in Greenland in January 2022.
Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee for Best Short Film, 2021
Tirana International Film Festival
Special Screening, 2022
