37th edition
18-26 january 2025
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BelgiumNetherlands
2020 Fiction 26 min
Sam is a shy young woman who works as a dog caretaker at the animal shelter in Ostend. Her colleague Koen is a dog behavioural therapist and teaches people about the upbringing of dogs. Sam prefers to stay with the animals and is fully committed to the daily chores at the shelter. But when Sam meets a nervous young woman who struggles with the upbringing of her dog, she decides to help her in her own way.
With : Loes Swaenepoel, Anna Franziska Jäger, Koen Van Daele
Screenplay : Marieke Elzerman
Image : Frank Schulte
Sound : Zita Leemans
Editing : Marieke Elzerman
Music : Massimo Colombo
Production : KASK - Académie royale des beaux-arts
Distribution: KASK - Académie royale des beaux-arts
Contact : KASK - Académie royale des beaux-arts
Born in 1996 in Amsterdam, Marieke Elzerman makes both personal documentaries and fiction films. In January 2018 her bachelor project Marieme, Marieke (2018) premiered at Galerie Van Gelder in Amsterdam. In May 2018 she was selected for an intense workshop Filming in Peru with Werner Herzog. In the same year she did an internship in Lisbon with the Portuguese director Salomé Lamas. Following her graduation from the master's film programme at KASK, School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium in September 2020, she will follow postgraduate course at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, in San Sebastián, Spain.