Ten-year-old Toda lives in a bakery with her dad, the best pastry chef in town. Toda knows everything there is to know about cakes and pastries, and loves it when her dad plays the trumpet. But one day, everything changes: her dad is called away unexpectedly to defend his country. Toda has to undertake an adventurous journey to the unknown neighbouring country where her mother lives, in order to stay safe. On the way she meets strange people, encounters absurd situations and finds a special new friend...
The Day My Father Became a Bush
Toen mijn vader een struik werd
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Nicole van Kilsdonk
- Script: Marleen Versprille, Nicole van Kilsdonk
- Cinematography: Gregg Telussa
- Editing: David Verdurme
- Sound: Jan Schermer
- Music: Rutger Reinders
- Actors: Celeste Holsheimer, Matsen Montsma, Teun Kuilboer
- Production: Lemming Film
- Producers: a Eisenloeffel, Fleur Winters, Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries
- Co-production: Nukleus Film, A Private View, Minds Meet
- Art Direction: Ivan Veljača
- Costumes: Monica Petit, Zorana Meić
- Make Up: Snježana Gorup
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: The Netherlands, Croatia, Belgium
- Production Year: 2016
- Duration: 85΄
- Contact: Beta Cinema
Nicole van Kilsdonk
Nicole van Kilsdonk was born in Ijmuiden, Netherlands, and received a degree in Directing and Screenwriting at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her feature films as director include Johan (2005), Hoe overleaf ik...?(2008), Heading West (2010), and Taking Chances (2011). The Day My Father Became a Bush (2016) is her most recent film.
Filmography
2008 Hoe overleafik...?
2010 Heading West
2011 Taking Chances
2016 The Day My Father Became a Bush
