Release Date
Release Datum
Date de sortie
Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch, English, French
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Slovakian, Spanish
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
87'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
16:9

Billie and Lucas, a young Brussels couple, both leave for university facing a year rife with change. Visions of the future, doubts about relationships and the expectations of adult life make up the main material for their conversations with friends and each other. Kind Hearts paints a candid portrait of the formative but also uncertain facets of every (first) love.

“For Kind Hearts, we did not set out to make a documentary ‘about’ love, but instead wanted to take a look at a love affair in the concrete, depicting meeting points between the two lovers Billie and Lucas. The experience of love is closely linked to the experience of narrative; in our minds, we recreate love as an adventure. This notion of love as construction is also reflected in the form of the film, characterised by its ambivalent place between staging and documentary. For us, working on a film is always a matter of attention, care and concentration, both in its choice of form and in its relationship to people and places. Kind Hearts’s ambition is to adopt a loving gaze at how these two lovers relate to the world and each other.”

Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes

To a film that effortlessly plunges us into the lives of two ordinary young people, sharing a delicate insight in their emotional growth, while reminding us of the unpredictable and elusive nature of that thing called love."

Jury statement by the members of the International Jury in Generation 14plus at Berlinale

For the delicate balancing of narrative and real life which fosters a step-by-step process of intimacy between us and the characters on the screen, embracing without premeditation the unpredictability of life as a driving force."

Jury statement by the members of the International Features Competition at Play-Doc

Kind Hearts (Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes, 2022)
Release Date
Release Datum
Date de sortie
Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch, English, French
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Slovakian, Spanish
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
87'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
16:9
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
With
Met
Avec
Billie Meeussen, Lucas Roefmans, Romane Van Damme, Charlotte Meyntjens, Rana Hamzaoui, Gaspard Renier, Victoria De Man
Image
Beeld
Image
Olivia Rochette
Sound
Geluid
Son
Lennert De Taeye, Nina de Vroome
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Rasmus Van Heddeghem, Ruben Desiere
Editing
Montage
Montage
Dieter Diependaele
Sound Editing
Klankmontage
Montage Son
Ingrid Simon
Sound Mix
Klankmix
Mixage son
Thomas Gauder
Colour Correction
Kleurcorrectie
Etalonnage
Olivier Ogneux
Production
Productie
Production
Accattone films
Co-production
Coproductie
Coproduction
Canvas
With the Support of
Met de steun van
Avec le soutien de
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF), Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Stad Brussel, Beursschouwburg, deAuteurs