Perfect Darkness
Maaike Neuville (2016, 24')
Maaike Neuville is not only a well-known Flemish actress. A few years ago, she started making films. And this hasn’t gone unnoticed. Her graduate film Sonnet 81 won the Prize for Best Debut at the International Short Film Festival in Leuven 2013. On top of that, Maaike received the acclaimed Wildcard from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund. With the prize money, she is now making her new film, Perfect Darkness...
Gus and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are on holiday. During a nightly walk to the spot near the water, Anna does a confession. Can the couple, amidst the wild nature and under a full moon, overcome the conflict? Will they reach their idyllic spot?
Perfect Darkness is a short about the nature of love, filmed in one shot.
It is supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund and was presented at Euro Connection 2016 in Clermont-Ferrand.
written and directed by MAAIKE NEUVILLE
with EVA BINON & JORGE JAUREGUI ALLUE
inspired by VERKLÄRTE NACHT by RICHARD DEHMEL
producer ANIMAL TANK
line producers BRECHT VAN ELSLANDE & VICTORIA TRZECIAK
director of photography GRIMM VANDEKERCKHOVE
sound engineer and editor KWINTEN VAN LAETHEM
music by ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG
editor FAIRUZ
festival coordination WOUTER JANSEN (info@someshorts.com)
distribution (BE) DALTON DISTRIBUTION
with the support of:
FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND
TAX SHELTER OF THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
FLANDERS FILM FUNDING
EURO CONNECTION
SOME SHORTS
FESTIVALS
World premiere at the opening night of the International Short Film Festival Leuven (Leuven, Belgium): December 2016
Klappei (Antwerpen, Belgium): 24 February 2017
Cinema Zed (Leuven, Belgium): 26 February 2017
KASKcinema (Ghent, Belgium): 2 March 2017
Glasgow Short Film Festival (Glasgow, Scotland) : 17 - 18 March 2017
Sehsüchte (Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany) : 26 April - 1 May 2017
Brussels Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium): 27 April - 7 May 2017
Vienna Shorts Festival (Vienna, Austria): 1 - 6 June 2017
La Guarimba International Film Festival (Amantea, Italy): 7 - 11 August 2017
Film Festival Oostende (Ostend, Belgium: 8 - 16 September 2017
Festival Off-Courts Trouville (Trouville, France): 8 - 16 September 2017
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (Namur, Belgium): 29 September - 6 October 2017
Brest European Short Film Festival (Trouville, France): 7 - 12 November 2017
Crossing the Screen (Eastbourne, UK): 23 - 26 November 2017
International Film Festival 2ANNAS (Latvia): November 28 - 3 December 2017
Eindhovens Film Festival (Eindhoven, the Netherlands): 6 - 10 December 2017
THESS International Short Film Festival Thessaloniki (Greece): 13 - 17 December 2017
Des Courts en Hiver - Cinéma et Poésie (Porto-Vecchio, Corsica): 25 - 27 January 2018
Short Waves Festival - International Competition (Poznan, Poland): 20 - 23 March 2018
Cellu l'Art Short Film Festival (Jena, Germany): 24 - 29 April 2018
2ANNAS Riga International Short Film Festival Summer Tour (Riga, Latvia): Lüznavas Muiza: July 22 (2018) & Laba Daba: 3 - 5 August 2018
Alcine - Festival de Cine Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain): 9 - 16 November 2018
Short Screens - le court métrage sur grand écran (Brussels, Belgium): 25 July 2019