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VIOLET

By Bas DEVOS

ALTERED INNOCENCE - as DISTR DVD-video, VOD, USA

Drama - Completed 2014

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends from the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable — how he feels about it.

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Festival de Cannes 2008

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama, Action/Adventure, Crime
- Countries
- BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Director(s)
- Bas DEVOS
- Cast
- Cesar DE SUTTER, Raf WALSCHAERTS, Mira HELMER, Koen DE SUTTER, Fania SOREL, Brent MINNE
- Synopsis
- On their way home early one summer, Jesse and Jonas get
  into an argument with two youngsters, whereby Jonas gets
  stabbed. Jesse is the only witness of the murder.
  In shock, Jesse, is taken care of by his parents. They
  are at a loss for words. All Jesse’s circle of friends, a group
  of young BMX riders, can come up with is questions –
  questions Jesse is unable to answer. The group do their best
  to take care of him, taking him to the skate ground and to
  concerts. Feeling the weight of their looks, however, Jesse
  increasingly isolates himself to get over the loss.
  At nights he sneaks towards Jonas’s parents’ house.
  He takes a certain amount of comfort from observing those
  who share his grief. When Jonas’s father catches him in the
  act one day and gives him Jonas’s old BMX as a present,
  Jesse gradually starts realizing what is happening to him.
  He realizes that a visit to the scene of the crime will be the
  only way to get over the loss and confront his loneliness.

VIOLET

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