Claude M., 2021
CLAUDE
He’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
NEDA
I remember when you told us.
CLAUDE
Ow yeah, Christmas Eve! ‘Mummy, Daddy, I’m pregnant…’
NEDA
Ah, by whom?
CLAUDE
The sperm bank!
Synopsis: Single mother Claude M is serving a prison sentence and had no choice but to leave her son Iwan with her sister Neda.
Cast: Sara De Roo * Sachli Gholamalizad.
Year:2020| Length:12’| format:ARRI ProRes HQ|
Language:Dutch & Farsi| Subtitles:Eng & Fr
Screenplay: Michael De Cock
Director: Dorothée van den Berghe
DOP: Jan Vancaillie
Editor: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Music: Le Motel
Production: De Wereldvrede
Lecter Scripted Media
Producers: Gilles Coulier
Maarten Moerkerke
Sound: Gert Janssen
Art director: Toon Mariën
Costume designer: Tine Deseure
Make-up: Labhise Allara
Screening
*Eén/VRT (2021)
Prizes and mentions:
*Lockdown series, short form fiction (12x’10): Winner Student Prize CANNESERIES
Festivals:
*CANNESERIES
Press:
*Canneseries:
Lockdown brings twelve independent short stories, directed by twelve top Flemish directors and with a strong cast. Each story takes place in the same setting: the visiting room of a prison. Two characters, each on one side of the glass in the visiting room that separates them - but also their world.
*Humo:
“If Lockdown is one the most fascinating and disturbing anthology series of the year, it is probably because of its main character: a prison parlour with a glass pane. Fascinating because one can identify oneself easily to most situations. (…) About the series Lockdown in general: “Not only a great rehabilitation for the somewhat misunderstood genre of the short film, but also a great boost for many technically unemployed crew members, from directors to set dressers and boom operators, who, in the middle of a seemingly lost year, were unexpectedly given a wonderful opportunity to exercise their creative muscles. As a pandemic was now raging, the film crews were forced to face a series of restrictions: the stories had to be confined to one location, the visiting room of a prison, and mass scenes à la 'Spartacus' were obviously out of the question. Nobody will have succumbed to these limitations: anyone with an ounce of talent and creativity should see these kinds of restraints as a tantalising challenge. After all, it is in limitation that the master shows himself”.
*Set visit & interviews with Dorothée van den Berghe, Sara De Roo & Sachli Gholamalizad
