THE IDYLL
Victor (42) finally comes out of the closet, but realizes he is now too old for the gay dating market. His sister, opera diva Annika (40), imagines how her life could have been after a terminal diagnosis. Meanwhile grandmother (90) is really bad at killing herself, while Timo (10) is ticking off the bucket list Things You Need To Do When You Have Only One Week To Live.
writer-director: Aaron Rookus
with: casting ongoing
producer: Layla Meijman, Maarten van der Ven – Studio Ruba (NL)
co-producers: Xavier Rombaut – Polar Bear (BE), Ivo Felt – Allfilm (EST)
genre: tragic comedy – feature film
country: The Netherlands / Belgium
year: 2024
duration: 100 minutes
Benelux distribution: Paradiso
with the support of: Netherlands Film Fund, BNNVARA, Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Tax shelter of the Belgian federal government via Taxshelter.be, Creative Europe co-development support, Estonian Film Institute
stage: in post-production