The feature film debut Silent Ones by Dutch filmmaker Ricky Rijneke has been selected for the Los Angeles International (Women) Film Festival La Femme and the 37th Mostra International de Cinema Sao Paulo.

The Los Angeles La Femme International Film Festival will be held from October 17 to 20 at the LA Life Regal Cinema Theaters.
Silent Ones will be screened along with sixteen other feature films in the Features competition program. Some films in the program have been taken from the Sundance Festival competition, such as The Truth About Emanuel by Francesca Gregorina.

American Independent Producer Jim Stark (including Jim Jarmusch) about Silent Ones:
'With gorgeous visual imagery and an elliptical but very poetic story, her debut film Silent Ones has earned Ricky Rijneke a place among Europe's best young up and coming directors.'

The International Film Festival Sao Paulo takes place at multiple locations in this metropolis from October 18 to 31. Silent Ones will be screened in the main program section, the New Directors Competition, which shows first and second films.

Silent Ones was previously nominated for the Tiger Award, the competition program for first and second feature films and the flagship of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Subsequently, Silent Ones won various European awards and was screened at a dozen festivals, including Moscow, Sarajevo, Mumbai, Prague, and New Horizons in Poland.

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 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), Women Without Men (Silver Lion Venice) by Shirin Neshat, and The Notebook (Grand Prix Karlovy Vary). Cinematography was also handled by award-winning European film talent: Gergely Pohárnok (Hukkle, Taxidermia) and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd (Les Géants, Eldorado). Russian composer Andrey Derchachev composed the music for Silent Ones, providing 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.

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 is releasing the film in the Netherlands. International sales are handled by the French sales agent Wide Management.

Watch the new trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTkvQ1iZ-E



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