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ROOKIE

By Lieven VAN BAELEN

DFW INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2021

Rookie is a story about lost dreams, second chances, and family, set against the high-octane, adrenaline-fueled world of independent motorcycle racing.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- DUTCH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Lieven VAN BAELEN
- Writer(s)
- Lieven VAN BAELEN, Charlie BRAFMAN, Magnus MCCULLAGH
- Cast
- Matteo SIMONI, Veerle BAETENS
- Producer(s)
- Koen MORTIER (CZAR Film & TV), Eurydice GYSEL (CZAR Film & TV)
- Synopsis
- Nicky is a young, ambitious and confident pure blooded motorcyclist. He always puts his life on the line while racing. Not for the money, but for kicks, respect and fame. When he gets into an accident, his world crumbles apart, not sure whether he’ll ever be able to race again.
  
  He has trouble accepting this new life and turns to his sister-in-law Vero and her son Charlie to start over. But the adrenaline junkie inside him rears his ugly head and Nicky tries relive his dream by coaching his nephew Charlie. It quickly becomes clear though, that they’re not cut from the same cloth...