IDYLLIC

Victor (42) finally comes out of the closet, but realizes he is now too old for the gay dating market. His sister, opera diva Annika (40), imagines how her life could have been after a terminal diagnosis. Meanwhile grandmother (90) is really bad at killing herself, while Timo (10) is ticking off the bucket list Things You Need To Do When You Have Only One Week To Live.

• writer-director: Aaron Rookus

• with: Pieter Embrechts, Sam Louwyck, Nabil Mallat, Hadewych Minis, Eelco Smits, Beppie Melissen, Isacco Limper

• producer: Layla Meijman, Maarten van der Ven – Studio Ruba (NL) 

• co-producers: Xavier Rombaut – Polar Bear (BE), Ivo Felt – Allfilm (EST)

• genre: tragic comedy – feature film

• country: The Netherlands / Belgium

• year: 2025

• duration: 100 minutes

• Benelux distribution: Paradiso

• with the support of: Netherlands Film Fund, BNNVARA, Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Tax shelter of the Belgian federal government via Taxshelter.be, Creative Europe co-development support, Estonian Film Institute