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DRIFT

By Benny VANDENDRIESSHE, Dirk HENDRIKX

First film - Completed 2011

‘Drift’ is a portrait of a man looking for salvation on a mythical journey through a real yet barren and tired old Continent.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan - BIFF/APM 2013

Flash forward competition

Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (DE) 2013

Fipresci Award

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- First film
- Countries
- BELGIUM, FRANCE, SPAIN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, DUTCH, ROMANIAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Benny VANDENDRIESSHE, Dirk HENDRIKX
- Writer(s)
- Benny VANDENDRIESSHE, Dirk HENDRIKX, Carl ROTTIERS
- Cast
- Dirk HENDRIKX, Lieve MEEUSSEN, Constantin COJOCARU
- Producer(s)
- Peter KRÜGER (Inti Films), Raymond VAN DER KAAIJ (REVOLVER AMSTERDAM)
- Synopsis
- A Belgian couple waits in an empty hotel in the Carpathian mountains. She suffers from a lingering illness. He helps her find her peace. Left alone, he escapes reality and starts to wander.
  
  DRIFT explores his quest for salvation on a mythical journey through a barren Romanian wasteland. Fighting his memories, the drifting man chooses not to speak and to loose himself in an animal-like and primitive existence. His simple but painful rituals echo an ancient culture long forgotten. As the past reveals itself, insanity sets in. Slowly, he disappears as well.
- Partners & financing
- VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Film Fund)
  NFF (Dutch Film Fund)
  Taxshelter of the Belgian Government