Nowadays, the hospital welcomes me as a medical miracle. It feels ungrateful to admit I’m not very keen on living to doctors who’ve done everything to save me. I’ve been cured, but not without being physically and mentally damaged during the treatment. Through the lens of my father’s camera, I look back at a period of my life of which I remember nothing. Twenty years after surviving cancer as a child, I search for traces of illness between scars and desires.

Original title: Kaalkapje
Director: Marthe Peters
Cinematography: Marthe Peters, Leon Decock
Editor: Marthe Peters
Cast: Idania Spruyt, Floor Toppets, Leon Decock, Marthe Peters
Script: Marthe Peters
Others: Sound: Leon Decock, Marthe Peters
Dialogue: Dutch

2024
Berlinale – Berlin Int. Film Festival
Vilnius International Film Festival
Courtisane Festival
European Media Art Festival
Leiden Shorts
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Lago Film Fest - Festival Indipendente di Cinema
Seminci - Valladolid International Film Week