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Isabelle Huppert stars as a middle-aged factory worker whose long-ago brush with fame comes to the fore again when she begins a romance with a young aspiring boxer.
Bavo Defurne
Casts & Crew
Isabelle Huppert
Kevin Azais
Johan Leysen
Jan Hammenecker
Carlo Ferrante
Alice D'Hauwe
Anne Brionne
Sophie Mousel
Benjamin Boutboul
Muriel Bersy
Fanny Blanchard
Thomas Coumans
Christine d'Argenton
Joël Delsaut
Thorunn Egilsdóttir
Mickey Hardt
Denis Jousselin
Stefan Kampeneers
Colette Kieffer
Charles Loos
Delphine Musch
Morgan Politi
Norbert Rutili
Franck Sasonoff
Hervé Sogne
Max Thommes
Anouchka Csernakova
Marie Colapietro
Also Directed by Bavo Defurne
A teenager adores his sailor friend. He dreams about the exotic countries, marvellous starry skies and the inevitable homesickness that would bring his friend back to him. In a colourful series of mythical referential images, his fragile dreams get so unreal, that the enthusiasm for seeing his friend again turns into anxiousness.
It's sports day and a seventeen-year-old boy prepares to compete, as he has many times before. Only this time it's different, his childhood is behind him, different feelings, emotions and desires engulf him as he watches his classmates. His life is about to change.
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, with his lousy grey Fiat, as a driver for the nights she has to “perform”. As a kid Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens. But when Pim turns 16 he dreams of Gino, the handsome boy next door, instead. Ever since they were children there has been this tension between them. Now Gino is Pim’s motorcycling hero. Cold mockery, little humiliations and tiny bits of hope make up Pim’s life. No wonder he sometimes flees to his dream world.
Saint is a short black and white film without dialogue shot on Super-8, that portrays the martyrdom of St. Sebastian through evocative imagery and tone rather than concrete story detail.
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BOYS ON FILM is proud to present the complete short film collection of Bavo Defurne (North Sea Texas), a beautiful imaginative series that reflects on different aspects of youth and sexuality: CAMPFIRE, SAINT, PARTICULARLY NOW IN SPRING, SAILOR. Defurne’s short films have wowed festival audiences all over the world and won numerous awards. His fluid directing style playfully takes reference from works of art and legendary filmmakers and creates something unique and original. The short films collected in CAMPFIRE showcase the foundation of an unusual directing talent with astonishing visual flare.
First love - but is a boy scouts true desire for his girlfriend or for his best friend? A tension-filled camping trip leads to revelations of self-discovery.