The Fruit Tree
TITLE
The Fruit Tree
DIRECTOR
Isabelle Tollenaere
COUNTRY
Belgium
YEAR
2022
DURATION
14′
GENRE
Documentary
The Fruit Tree
In The Fruit Tree a young woman, Sharleece, views a property to rent in the sleepy desert town where she lives, California City. Looking out of the window evokes unexpected memories of her childhood home in Los Angeles.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Isabelle Tollenaere
Isabelle Tollenaere is an independent filmmaker/artist from Belgium, making short films, feature length films and installations, playfully moving between the codes and conventions of documentary and fiction, film and contemporary art. In her practice she mainly ex- plores the connections between the current shifts in reality and the memory of the past. Her filmography includes the short films VIVA PARADIS (2011), THE REMEMBERED FILM (2018), and THE FRUIT TREE (2022), and the feature length films BATTLES (2015) and VICTORIA (2020) . She’s currently developing a new feature film called PARIS, PARIS. Her films have been shown at the Venice International Film Festival, Berlinale Forum (Caligari Film Prize 2020), IFFR (Fipresci award 2015), Centre Pompidou, Viennale, Visions Du Réel, FID Marseille, IDFA, CPH:DOX, IndieLisboa (Special Jury Prize 2020), and many others.
- DirectorIsabelle Tollenaere
- ScreenplayIsabelle Tollenaere
- CinematographyIsabelle Tollenaere
- EditingIsabelle Tollenaere
- Cast
- Producer/s Bo De Group, Hans Everaert
- Production CompanyMenueto Film production
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Distributor/s
SQUARE EYES
- Project TitleThe Fruit Tree
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date January 1, 2022
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Country of origin
Belgium -
Country of filming
Belgium - LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Isabelle Tollenaere
Isabelle Tollenaere is an independent filmmaker/artist from Belgium, making short films, feature length films and installations, playfully moving between the codes and conventions of documentary and fiction, film and contemporary art. In her practice she mainly ex- plores the connections between the current shifts in reality and the memory of the past. Her filmography includes the short films VIVA PARADIS (2011), THE REMEMBERED FILM (2018), and THE FRUIT TREE (2022), and the feature length films BATTLES (2015) and VICTORIA (2020) . She’s currently developing a new feature film called PARIS, PARIS. Her films have been shown at the Venice International Film Festival, Berlinale Forum (Caligari Film Prize 2020), IFFR (Fipresci award 2015), Centre Pompidou, Viennale, Visions Du Réel, FID Marseille, IDFA, CPH:DOX, IndieLisboa (Special Jury Prize 2020), and many others.
