Archive of films Someone Else's Happiness / Een ander zijn geluk

Belgium / Netherlands
2005, 98 min

Section: Forum of Independents - Competition
Year: 2006

Christine’s life changes when she discovers a child’s body by the side of the road, killed in a hit-and-run accident and left for dead. An unusually strong portrait of a seemingly perfect and cold modern world, where nothing is the way it seems.

Synopsis

Christine’s life changes when she discovers a child’s body by the side of the road, killed in a hit-and-run accident and left for dead. When the news breaks, the whole village is in a state of shock and the longer the search for the killer goes on, the more the facts are obscured. When the tension reaches fever pitch, the child’s death becomes a pretext for renewing long buried resentments and settling old scores. Yet, in a small village where everyone’s lives are interlinked, no one is truly innocent and everyone has blood on their hands. An unusually strong portrait of a seemingly perfect and cold modern world, where nothing is the way it seems.

About the director

Fien Troch (b. 1978) graduated from the film programme at the Saint-Lucas Institute of Higher Education in Brussels. She appeared as an actor in Patricia Mazuy’s Saint-Cyr (2000). Her short films include Verbrande Aarde (1998), Wooww (1999), which won the Canal+ Award at the Kort Film Festival in Belgium, Maria (2000) and Cool Sam and Sweet Suzie (2002), both of which screened at numerous international film festivals. Someone Else’s Happiness (2005) is her first feature film.

Contacts

Celluloid Dreams
2, rue Turgot, 75009, Paris
France
Tel: +33 149 700 370
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.celluloid-dreams.com

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Forum of Independents - Competition

Director:	Fien Troch
Screenplay:	Fien Troch
Dir. of Photography:	Frank van den Eeden
Music:	Peter Van Laerhoven
Editor:	Nico Leunen
Producer:	Antonino Lombardo
Production:	Prime Time, Motel Films
Cast:	Ina Geerts, Johan Leysen, Natali Broods, Peter Van den Begin, Johanna ter Steege, Josse De Pauw
Contact:	Celluloid Dreams