A father and daughter  face a range of conflicting emotions when she commits a random act of violence.

In winter, when the snow blurs all the contours in the landscape, the girl Yuri becomes 14 years old. Her father Lorenzo decides that she is now old enough to carry the rifle that is passed down for generations. Yuri is allowed to shoot her first deer. Lorenzo, Yuri and her uncle Ivan drive deep inland into the mountains for a hunting trip. But this celebration and almost ritual initiation, Yuri’s ‘rite de passage’, takes a disastrous and fatal turn.

Second feature by critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning director Ricky Rijneke was selected for the Torino Film Lab Script & Pitch, The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab and the TIFF Talent Lab of the Toronto International Film Festival. The Hunter was presented at the Venice Gap-Financing Market of the Venice Film Festival.

Status: production.
Genre: Feature, drama, mystery, thriller
Length:  100 minutes, colour
Language: French / English / Dutch
Shooting format: 4K / 35mm

Director/Writer:
Director: Ricky Rijneke.
Screenwriter: Ricky Rijneke.

Selected for script development at:
Torino Film Lab Script & Pitch.
Toronto Talent Lab (TIFF) mentored by Wim Wenders.
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab.
Venice Gap-Financing Market of the Venice Film Festival 2019

Cast:
Jeroen Perceval, BE (a.o. Borgman, d’Ardennen, Bullhead),
Zelie Rixhon BE (Vacances, Mytho),
Yoann Zimmer (Des Hommes)
Jan Bijvoet (Borgman)

Sound / Composer:
Andrey Dergachev, RU (Silent Ones by Ricky Rijneke, regular composer & sound supervisor for Andrey Zvyagintsev The Return,
The Banishment, Leviathan and Loveless, Golden Lion Venice, Jury Prize Cannes, Golden Globe).

Script Support:
Matthieu Taponier, FR (Sunset (Fipresci Prize, Venice 2018) and Son of Saul by Laszlo Nemes, Grand Prix Cannes 2015, Oscar 2016)

Cinematographer:
Bert Pot, Dirk Rijneke ( Silent Ones), Rimvydas  Leipus (Khadak, A Casa, Resurection), Piotr Sobocinski (Corpus Christi) and others

Financial Support by:
Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Polish Film Institute, Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Tax Shelter BE, Icelandic Film Center. Distribution: Filmfreak (NL),(BE), Gutek Film (PL), Sena (IS)
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Producers:
Rotterdam Films, Mildred van Leeuwaarden & Dirk Rijneke NL, City Life, Reykjavik Rotterdam, Silent Ones,  A Letter from Helga, Hunters.

Co Producers
Balapolis, Magdalena Kaminska & Agata Szymanska, Poland (Werewolf, Hunters)
Vintage Pictures, Birgitta Björnsdóttir, Iceland (The Swan, Woman At War, Reply to a Letter from Helga, Hunters)
A Private View, Dries Phlypo, Belgium (The Best of Dorien B, Aanrijding Moscou, Hunters)

The Hunter’s Son has been selected for Script&Pitch of the Torino Film Lab 

The Toronto Talent Lab (TIFF).

The Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Jerusalem

The project was selected for the Venice Gap-Financing Market of the Venice Film Festival.

Supported by Eurimages / Eurimages News – Interview With Ricky Rijneke