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JULIE KEEPS QUIET
JULIE ZWIJGT

• Director: Leonardo van Dijl
• BELGIUM, SWEDEN / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 99’ / Flemish, French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Leonardo van Dijl, Ruth Becquart
• Director of Photography: Nicolas Karakatsanis
• Editing: Bert Jacobs
• Music: Caroline Shaw
• Cast: Tessa Van den Broeck, Ruth Becquart, Koen De Bouw, Claire Bodson, Laurent Caron
• Producer: Gilles De Schryver, Gilles Coulier, Wouter Sap, Roxanne Sarkozi
• Production Co.: De Wereldvrede
• World Sales: New Europe Film Sales

2024 Cannes SACD, Prix Fondation GAN Prix

As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club’s players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet… ’She’s kind of like Hamlet: for her, it’s "to speak or not to speak,"’ says director Leonardo van Dijl, ’She’s an innocent girl who finds herself burdened with very heavy responsibilities and moral dilemmas. My challenge was to make the silence loud.’ The debut feature of van Dijl that premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week is filled with a silence loaded with anxiety, obstinacy, and anger in the face of trauma, abuse, and control.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.