An observational short film

DINSDAGOCHTEND

About love, distance and everything heard over the garden fence.

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About the film

when the ordinary begins.

Dinsdagochtend is an observational short film about love after the first rush of falling in love.

Story

a place in the sun.

When Yael and Isaak move into their first real home together, their neighbours over the back fence, Nicholas and Linde, who are nearing retirement, unwittingly become their mirror.

Nicholas and Linde have built a life of calm and routine together. At first Yael and Isaak seem the picture of young love, but as time passes they begin to resemble the older couple more and more. Patterns emerge or return, and they find themselves asking that age-old question: “Is this it?”

Style

within fixed frames.

The film unfolds over a year in the life of both couples, following their relationships through the seasons. Life in a terraced house provides an important frame: the house stands for the warmth and security of a settled life, but also for confinement and isolation.

Visually, the film uses defined spaces, fixed frames and repeated actions, with subtle shifts gradually coming into view. Much of what happens takes place off-screen; we hear things through walls and from the other side of the fence, like lives both close by and far away.

From the director

watching what changes.

So many films about love seem caught between extremes: either the fairy tale, the magic of meeting, the “will they, won't they?” of boy meets girl, or the drama of a breakup, infidelity and heartbreak. Rarely do they show everything in between, even though so much of our lives happens there.

With dinsdagochtend, I want to make that in-between space visible; to show love as something that includes doubt and familiar patterns, that sometimes means drifting apart, losing and finding each other again, or at least trying to, or wishing you knew how.

Together we lose ourselves in the sun's endless rising, and sometimes it makes me forget who we once were.

Team

the people behind the fence

Boukje van der VosDirector & screenwriter

Siene VandeveldeProducer

Jane TielemanCinematography

Janou GheysenProduction assistant

Jef De BockDramaturgy

Oriane ChamartCasting

Janne De HerdtDramaturgy

Mina Shojaei-FardDramaturgy

Support us

help us make it happen.

Your contribution helps cover filming days, locations, costumes, editing and finishing.

Prefer to support us by bank transfer? Our IBAN is BE51 7350 7879 0862, in the name of Siene Vandevelde. Please include your name and email address in the payment reference.

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Your name in the credits

25 euros

A good neighbour

Your name in the credits
Digital thank-you card with a link to the film

50 euros

A friend from afar

Everything in the previous packages
A physical postcard from the director
A link to the dinsdagochtend Spotify playlist

Recommended75 euros

Greener grass

Everything in the previous packages
2 tickets to the private premiere screening

150 euros

The paper arrives

Everything in the previous packages
Official A3 film poster
The silence cut: selected film images in a special edit

300 euros

Reading the coffee grounds

Everything in the previous packages
Signed poster
Coffee with the director and cinematographer

500 euros

The cobblestones

Everything in the previous packages
Your name featured in the film
An invitation to the set on a filming day

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Contact

a postcard works too.

For questions, contributions or a note from your kitchen table: dinsdagochtend.kortfilm@gmail.com.

You can also find us on Instagram: @dinsdagochtend.