“What does count then?”
In addition to a long and enthusiastic applause from the Locarno audience, Girl also received the prize from the Youth Jury and the prize from TV channel Arte. The film, for which Dorothée van den Berghe wrote the screenplay herself, is also the debut as a producer for Jan De Clercq, the driving force behind Lumière.
At the press conference in Locarno, you mentioned that you and your cameraman Jan Vancaillie often looked at the work of German photographers.
"Yes, I don't know why, but a lot of contemporary German photographers often take pictures of the kind of people I've portrayed in my films. Usually just people they pick out on the street and then photograph them in a domestic situation. These photos have also inspired us; they are often very realistic in light, a tad harsh too.” (De Morgen)
