PARADISE TRIPS

By Raf REYNTJENS

CAVIAR (MECHELEN) - as PROD

First film - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Film Festival Oostende 2015
Price best Actor, Best costume, Industry Award
Nederlands Film Festival 2015
Section Vlaams XL
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur 2015
Screening
International Film Festival Mannheim - Heidelberg 2015
International competition Films
Prijs van de Jeugde voor de Internationale Film 2015
Price best film
Le Be Film Festival 2015
In Competition
Palm Spring Fest. 2016
Section New Voices/new visions
Festival International du Film d'Aubagne 2016
In section Feature Film: price best film, best script, best director, best music
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • First film
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM
    • Director(s)
    • Raf REYNTJENS
    • Writer(s)
    • Raf REYNTJENS
    • Producer(s)
    • Frank VAN PASSEL (CAVIAR ANTWERP), Ivy VANHAECKE (CAVIAR ANTWERP), Marc BARY (IJSWATER FILMS), Olivier RAUSIN (CLIMAX FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Holiday bus driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south. Today, he is stuck in retirement, bored with his wife and with life in general. He decides to accept one final trip. Only this time his passengers are not pensioners, but a motley crew of partygoers on their way to a festival in Croatia. Mario takes an immediate dislike to the alternative youth and their loud music. His last journey soon turns into on a fascinating trip that not only confronts him with his prejudices but also with his long lost son.