Summer Brother

Program:

International Competition

Year:

2024

Country:

Netherlands

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

100'

During a sweltering summer holiday Brian is stuck with the care of his severely mentally disabled brother Lucien. But how do you look after someone when you don’t know what they need? How do you make the right choices when you still have so much to discover?

Schedule

Joren Molter

After graduation at the Netherlands Film Academy his graduation film GREETINGS FROM KROPSDAM was selected for 54 International film festivals among which Clermont Ferrand, Busan and Palm Springs and won 13 International awards such as the audience award at the Warsaw International Film Festival. Joren is the first Dutch director that was selected by the European Film Promotion for the Future Frames: ten new directors to follow at the Karlovy Vary film Festival. His short film KIND and his television film DÒST, which he directed for the Dutch tv channel NTR, was premiering in the golden calf competition at the Dutch film festival. DÒST has been sold to Amazon and is translated in 27 different languages.

Filmography: Zomervacht (2024), In Kropsdam is iedereen gelukkig (2016), Dode Duiven: Dead Doves (2012), Vol van Leven: Full of Life (2009)

Creative team

Director

Joren Molter

Screenplay

Britt Snel

Camera

Sam du Pon

Editing

Dorith Vinken

Production design

Florian Legters

Music