Schoon Donker

Somewhere in Belgium, on the Flat Fields of Flanders, there where the horizon forms a thin but clear border between heaven and earth, Karel is taking care of his pigeons as if they were his own children. He, himself, always stays there, but he trains them to travel far and fast, under the one and only condition that they're always coming back. The daily rhythm and its eternal repetition offers as well to him as to his pigeons a highly secure base. Me too, I've been born and raised there. Despite all my beautiful memories and despite the fact that you're not supposed to, one dayI decided to leave. Unlike most of Karel's pigeons, I never came back to live there. Now, while the pigeons are coming and going, I'm coming back to film Karel and to speak with my father. But when the pigeons are going for the furthest travel to Marseille, I'm preparing myself to leave with them. Karel, my father, the village remain there, waiting for our possible, but not certain, return.

Director: Katrien Feyaerts

Cinematographer: Jonathan Wannyn, Katrien Feyaerts

Sound: Kwinten van Laethem, Gert Verboven

Editor: Pascal Hamant, Tom Denoyette

Grading: Paul Millot

Producer: Gert Verboven, Moutain View

Camera: Sony F3

Lenses: Zeiss ZF.2