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LOGLINE

A dark story about three ordinary young people on the verge of man- and womanhood.

SUMMARY 

Early morning. Two adolescent brothers wander over the mud flats, almost dry because of low tide. A suffocating summer day starts. They hang out. Suddenly a dense fog plunges everything in an impenetrable whiteness. Silence. A passer-by looming up out of the mist, a girl, breaks the virtual standstill. A strange relationship grows between them. The tension is tangible. The languid tranquillity can be disturbed at any moment. Tide turns, flood is rolling in. Water is all around them. A hypnotic story of the world of three people set in a remote landscape. Lost in the middle of nowhere. The Silent Ones is a film about a collision between two different worlds. The story of the film is told trough three points of view, those of the three main characters. Three ordinary young people. They are on the verge of adulthood. The girl Kate is not from the surroundings, she is a “stranger”, as the villagers call all outsiders. She is older than the boys, she kind of toys with them. Her character has a dark side. Boed, the younger brother is an unusually sensitive boy with a boundless imagination. Fragile. He tries to hold his own in a tough boys world with obscure initiation rites, while also struggling with his budding sexuality. His older brother Cas is angrier and temperamental. Unpredictable. Kate is a mystery to the boys. She is a girl and that makes her the object of the boys’ sexual desires. The relationship between the three main characters swings between jealousy, competition, intimacy, hate and love. None of the three protagonists can really express their feelings. They move but are simultaneously held back. They are trapped.

CREDITS

*Director Ricky Rijneke

*Producer Rotterdam Films 

*Screenplay Ricky Rijneke

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

*Running time 90 minutes

*Format 35mm