Ricky Rijneke's feature film debut Silent Ones has been selected for the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. The film will be screened in the official main program 'Minor Dutch Artists'.

In 'Minor Dutch Artists', a small selection of Dutch films can be seen, including Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam, Dark Blood by George Sluizer, and Tricked by Paul Verhoeven.

Moscow's festival director Kirill Razlogov has a particular interest in Silent Ones, he informed the film's producer Rotterdam Films. Russian composer Andrey Derchachev composed the music for Silent Ones and provided the film with a balanced and hypnotic soundscape.
Andrey Dercachev became known with The Return (Golden Lion Venice) and
The Banishment (Cannes award winner) by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev.

Director Ricky Rijneke and composer Andrey Derchachev will introduce the screening of the film in Moscow.

The lead role in Silent Ones is played by Hungarian actress and Berlinale shooting star Orsi Toth, who has appeared in Kornel Mundruczo's Delta (Cannes Fipresci Award) and Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (Silver Lion Venice). The cinematography was also handled by award-winning European film talent: Gergely Pohárnok (Hukkle, Taxidermia) and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd (Les Géants, Eldorado).

Silent Ones tells the story of a young Hungarian woman (Orsi Tóth) who, after her younger brother Isti disappears, sets off aboard a cargo ship to fulfill her promise to him. A surreal trip balancing on the edge of life and death.

The film was nominated earlier this year for the Tiger Award, the prestigious Competition Programme and flagship of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film recently won two awards at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy.

Silent Ones was produced by Rotterdam Films (Rijneke & van Leeuwaarden) and was made possible with support from the Netherlands Film Fund and the Mondriaan Fund. Distributor Contact Film will release the film in the Netherlands later this year. International sales are handled by the French sales agent Wide Management.



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