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A group of young BMX riders are confronted with the unexpected and violent death of Jonas, one of their friends. As 15-year-old Jesse is the only one to have witnessed the incident, they all look at him for answers. His inability to answer their questions gradually isolates Jesse. The grief for the loss of his best friend and the growing sense of loneliness stand in the way of Jesse’s search for comfort.

Violet is an intimate portrait of a teenager’s mourning process.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER Tomas Leyers co-founded the Brussels-based production company Minds Meet with Caroline Strubbe. He started his EAVE workshops in 2006 and was a Producer on the Move in Cannes 2007. He produced Strubbe’s first and second features Lost Persons Area (Cannes, Int’l Critics’ Week 2009) and I’m the same I’m an other (Toronto Int’l Film Festival 2013, Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival 2014) and the short Kaïn (Berlinale Shorts 2009) by Kristof Hoornaert. They also co-produced films like The Day God Walked Away (Toronto 2009), La cantante de tango (Locarno 2009) and Tango Libre (Venice, Orizzonti 2012). Later Tomas picked up Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (Cannes, Directors’ Fortnight 2010) by Gust Van den Berghe whose Blue Bird he produced in 2011 (Directors’ Fortnight 2011). He also did the production on Tom Heene’s feature debut Welcome Home (Venice Critics’ Week, Montreal World Film Festival 2012).

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Bas Devos (°1983) wrote and directed four short films Taurus (2005), Pillar (2006), The Close (2007) and We Know (2009) before creating his feature Violet (Berlinale, 2014). Devos sets out to tell his stories in images rather than through dialogue or plot. Besides his film work, Bas is involved in theater as a director and lighting designer. He is currently preparing his next film.

CONTACT

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CREDITSORIGINAL TITLE VioletDIRECTOR Bas Devos

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Bas DevosCAST César De Sutter, Raf Walschaerts, Mira Helmer,

Koen De Sutter, Jeroen Vander Ven, Fania Sorel, Brent Minne

PHOTOGRAPHY Nicolas Karakatsanis USER SEQUENCE DIRECTORS Herman Asselberghs,

FairuzEDITING Dieter Diependaele

SOUND Joost RoskamSOUND DESIGN Boris Debackere

PRODUCTION DESIGN Jeff OtteCOSTUME Bho Roosterman

FORMATORIGINAL VERSION Dutch

RUNNING TIME 82’FORMAT DCP-JPEG 2000, 4:3, Dolby SRD,

Colour, available in 2DYEAR 2014

PRODUCTIONPRODUCTION COMPANY Minds MeetFLEMISH PRODUCER Tomas Leyers

CO-PRODUCERS Artémis Productions, Phanta Film, Skeleton Youth

SUPPORTED BY Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), NFF, CFWB

INFO Minds MeetTomas Leyers & Marc GoyensHavenlaan 108-110B-1000 BrusselBelgium/EUE info@mindsmeet.beM +32 (0)476 46 01 54

www.mindsmeet.be

SALES New Europe Film Sales Jan NaszewskiSlowicza 12/205-075 WarsawPoland / EUE Jan@neweuropefi lmsales.comT +48 600 173 205