BEFORE DARK

original title: VOOR HET DONKER

Olaf, an engineering student, lives with his father Vincent. Once a renowned architect, now suffering from early Alzheimer’s disease. Olaf is struggling, because he wants to keep seeing Vincent as the man who knows everything. In the run-up to the birthday party Olaf organises for his dad, their surroundings grow darker; a concrete wall casts a shadow over their house from the garden and Vincent’s condition is deteriorating. Olaf will have to realise that living together in the present is more valuable than persistently clinging on to what used to be.

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Credits:

with: MISTRAL GUIDOTTI & SAM LOUWYCK & JOES BRAUERS & BART SLEGERS

written by: JOLEIN LAARMAN & MARIT WEERHEIJM
directed by: MARIT WEERHEIJM
produced by: LOES KOMEN & EVA VERWEIJ

casting: OI MUNDO CASTING - REBECCA VAN UNEN & MATHIAS SOURBRON
production manager: JASPER POL
ass. production manager: INDY KISOEN
first assistant director: RENÉ JONKERS
director of photography: MARTIJN MELIS
gaffer: JEROEN ZWART
sound recordist: FREEK VRIJHOF
production design: ESRA GHILANE
art director: CLARA BRAGDON
wardrobe: KRISTIEN LAMMERS
make-up & hair: RENEE WIJNHOVEN
editor: FATIH TURA
sound design: TOM JANSEN & HANZA VAN DER VEER
composer: JORRIT KLEIJNEN & ALEXANDER REUMERS
colorist: FERNANDO RODRIGUES

Festivals:

Nederlands Film Festival, the Netherlands (27 September – 5 October, 2018)
Debut Competition