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WELCOME HOME (HAPPY DAYS (WORKING TITLE))
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Completed - FRENCH, ENGLISH - Drama, Family, Road movie - 90 minutes

Log Line

Lucas and Bert, running away from the closed family circle. Their escape brings them to abandoned homes, left by owners gone on holiday. Soon, the meaning of their trip becomes unclear. Return to the fold? Keep on going?...

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2012 (Debut)
  • Berlin EFM 2013 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2013 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : De Pierpont PHILIPPE
Cast : Arthur BUYSSENS, Martin NISSEN

Producer(s) : Truc ISABELLE (Iota Production), Rotunno DONATO (Tarantula Luxembourg), Dries PHLYPPO (A Private View)

Synopsis

WELCOME HOME is an initiatic narrative telling the story of two boys, friends since childhood: Lucas (a 16-year-old high school kid) and Bert (an 18-year-old mechanic’s apprentice), running away from the closed family circle that causes them to fade. Not fully mature yet, Lucas finds in Bert some kind of a ‘big brother’, a guide… who will lead him to the verge of a disaster.
Their escape brings them to abandoned homes, left by owners gone on holiday. Soon, the meaning of their trip becomes unclear. Return to the fold? Keep on going? The logic of their drifting away urges them to go further and further. It is like going from bad to worse…

Production

Country(ies) : BELGIUM

Financing plan : Wallonia-Brussels Federation


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