GUTLAND — Govinda Van Maele

GUTLAND

Writer, Director / Feature Film / 2017 / 35mm / 107 mins / Starring Frederick Lau, Vicky Krieps, Marco Lorenzini / Produced by Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg), Novak Prod (Belgium) & Propeller Film (Germany)

Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, the mayor’s unruly daughter, takes a liking to him, does the village change its attitude: he is promptly offered a job as a farmhand and a caravan to live in.

As time passes and he is gradually integrated into the community, it emerges that he’s not the only one with a past to hide. Something sinister is lurking under the immaculate surface of this picturesque little world - and it is slowly drawing him in.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

TIFF 2017, Toronto International Film Festival - Discovery Section, World Premiere

Oaxaca International Film Festival 2017 - Official Selection

30th Tokyo International Film Festival - Competition, Asian Premiere

39th Cairo International Film Festival - African Premiere

AFI European Union Film Showcase - US Premiere

15th Chennai International Film Festival

Palm Springs International Film Festival - World Cinema Now Section

Premiers Plans, Angers, France - Main Competition, European Premiere

Filmfestival Max Öphuls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany - Main Competition - German Premiere

Rotterdam International Film Festival, Bright Future Section, Netherlands - Dutch Premiere

Santa Barbara International Film Festival, US A