30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth

My First Highway (2016) 15

Belgium | 2016 | 82 min.

During his annual family holiday to Spain, 16-year-old Benjamin becomes infatuated with one of the local girls. Anne is fascinating and beautiful and he quickly falls in love with her, little suspecting the direction in which events are about to turn. One drunken night, Anne shares a dark secret with him; she wants to find and confront the man who raped her. Head over heels in love and desperate to prove himself, Benjamin resolves to become her hero and the pair embark on a voyage of discovery from which there can be no turning back.

CountryBelgium
Year2016
Duration82 min
Rating15
LanguageAll kinds
SubtitleEnglish, Czech
Directed by Kevin Meul
Screenplay Kevin Meul
Director of Photography Menno Mans NSC
Music Brent Vanneste
Edited by Thomas Pooters, Kevin Meul
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Biography

A Belgian screenwriter and director, he graduated from the Sint-Lukas film school in Brussels. He's mainly made short films, music videos and commercials. He's also directed live TV shows. His short films include Trinity (La Trinité, 2003), The Extraordinary Life of Rocky (Het bijzondere leven van Rocky de Vlaeminck, 2010) and Cadet (2013). He debuted with the feature-length drama My First Highway (2016).

Drama, Youth, Growing Up, Crime, Relationships, Psychology, Youth

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