HOLLY
Film - CineMasters Competition

HOLLY

Directed by Fien Troch

Info

Director: Fien Troch
Section: CineMasters Competition
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Year: 2023
Language: Flemish
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Cathalina Geeraerts, Felix Heremans, Greet Verstraete, Serdi Faki Alici, Els Deceukelier
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A sensitive drama about bullying and catharsis.

15-year-old Holly is an outsider at school. Her classmates call her “the witch”. This reputation is reinforced when she calls in sick one day due to a premonition and a fire breaks out at the school, killing several students. But then the rumor circulates that she’s able to provide hope and peace of mind, which suddenly puts her in great demand.

Show calendar
Photocredits: Angela Otten/Prime Time; Director's Photo: Sofie Geysens

Calendar

  • HFF Kino 2
  • Rio 2

Meet the director

HOLLY

Fien Troch

Fien Troch was born in Londerzeel, Belgium, in 1978. She earned a degree in filmmaking from the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels in 2000. Her first full-length film, SOMEONE ELSE’S HAPPINESS (2005), dealt with the aftermath of a fatal traffic accident. HOME (FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2017) earned a Silver Lion for best director in the Orizzonti competition at Venice. Her fifth film, HOLLY, put her in the running for the Golden Lion for the first time.

Credits

Screenplay: Fien Troch
Director of Photography: Frank van den Eeden
Film Editor: Nico Leunen
Composer: Johnny Jewel
Production Designer: Natalia Treviño, Sanne Rubbrecht
Costume Design: Sophie Van den Keybus
Sound: Taco Drijfhout
Sound design: Tijn Hazen
Make-up artist: Véronique Dubray
Casting director: Magali Coremans
Producer: Elisa Heene, Antonino Lombardo
Production Company: Mirage, Prime Time
Co-Producer: Donato Rotunno, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings
World Sales: mk2 Films