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Original Title: Zaad

Documentary, Biography | 76' | 2023 (Completed)

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Director:	Dries Meddens
Producer:	Mark Daems
Writer:	Dries Meddens

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The story of a man dealing with the inheritance of his father’s mental illness.

synopsis

After his mother passes away, Dries discovers his father’s bipolarity. The care this mental illness imposes in his young life leaves no place for mourning. Countering the way society ruthlessly treats his father absorbs all his attention. Eventually – while in a closed section of a mental hospital – his father dies of a heart attack. Emptying his parent’s home, Dries discovers an old letter from his grandfather. The more Dries digs into the past, browsing through film and photo archives, the less he can avoid a growing fear that his father's psychiatric illness might be hereditary, from grandfather to father to son. What, then, will germinate in Dries' children?
Na het overlijden van zijn moeder valt de zorg voor Dries' bipolaire vader op zijn schouders. Hij ontdekt hoe rauw en meedogenloos de maatschappij en de psychiatrie met patiënten omgaan. Zijn vader sterft uiteindelijk in een instelling aan een hartaanval. Bij het leegmaken van het ouderlijke huis ontdekt Dries een oude brief van zijn grootvader. Dries vindt overeenkomsten tussen zijn grootvader, zijn vader en hemzelf. Langzaam groeit de angst dat de psychiatrische ziekte van zijn vader erfelijk zou kunnen zijn. Van grootvader op vader op zoon? En wat kiemt er dan bij de kinderen van Dries?

Credits

Director
Dries Meddens
Producer
Mark Daems
Writer
Dries Meddens
Photography
Benito Strangio
Music
Maarten Meddens

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Year of production

2023
Production status
Completed
Original title
Zaad
Original language
Dutch

Technical specs

Running time
76'
Available in
2D
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
5.1 (+ sub) Dolby
Available formats
DCP (4K)
Colour
Colour

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2140 Borgerhout
Belgium

T +32 3 236 6663
info@adirector.be

www.adirector.eu

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Serious Film, VRT

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Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Netherlands Film Fund (NFF)

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Credits

Director

Producer

Writer

Photography

Music

Format

Creation details

Type

Category

Production share

Genre

Year of production

Production status

Original title

Original language

Technical specs

Running time

Available in

Aspect ratio

Sound format

Available formats

Colour