Silent Ones

Ricky Rijneke

Silent Ones premiered in Competition of the 42th International Film Festival Rotterdam nominated for the Tiger Award.
The film was selected for competition for many major and independent international film festivals such as T Mobile New Horizons (Competition), Mostra São Paulo (New Directors Competition), Sarajevo Film Festival (Official Selection, Moscow Film Festival (Official Selection), Films de Femmes de Créteil, Los Angeles women’s Independent FF, Los Angeles IFF La Femme, New York No Limmits FF, Berlin BIFF, Toronto IFF and many others.

Silent Ones won eleven awards out of fifteen nominations, among others Best Director, three times Best Film and three times Best Cinematography.

– Slow Criticism Festivalists:
‘Impressive first feature, ingenious non-linear structure. Echoes of great European directors like Tarkovski or Béla Tarr.’

– International Cinephile Society:
‘The chemistry between the two is amazing. It is somewhat reminiscent of Bruno Dumont’s Hors Satan, only much softer and warmer.
A powerful, very self-assured debut, Silent Ones confirms that the director is one to watch.’

– The Hollywood Reporter:
‘Arty thriller Silent Ones has a intriguing set-up and a stylish look, visually ravishing.’

– Danny Lennon, Curator Film PHI Centre Montreal
“Outstanding film debut. Attention talent! One of the best films I saw at the IFF Rotterdam.”

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Silent Ones, directed by Ricky Rijneke, is a film about a young Hungarian woman (Orsi Tóth) who wakes up inside a crashed car in the middle of nowhere, not knowing where her brother Isti is. He has vanished without a trace. Upset and alone without saying a word, Csilla leaves aboard a cargo ship heading to Western Europe to keep a promise she made to him. When Gábor (Roland Rába), a self-proclaimed business man assaults her and takes her last souvenir of Isti, Csilla loses grip on her life completely. The journey turns into a surreal trip on the fragile edge of life and death.

For Silent Ones, a former CineMart project, Rijneke brought together a selection of prize-winning European film talent, including Gergely Pohárnok and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd for the camera work, Tamas Zanyi for the sound.
Actress and singer-songwriter Vanessa Paradis contributed with her famous song ‘Joe Le Taxi’. Andrej Dergatchev (who worked on The Return and The Banishment by Andrej Zvjagintsev) sets the tone for the film with his dreamy-ominous soundtrack. With her expressive face and few words, the Hungarian Orsi Tóth (Delta, Women Without Men) portrays a young woman fighting herself and her past.
(IFFR catalogue)

Director, Screenplay: Ricky Rijneke
Production company: Rotterdam Films and Werkstad Producties
Producers : Mildred van Leeuwaarden & Dirk Rijneke
Original music composed by Andrey Dergachev
Director of Photography: Gergely Poharnok and Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd
Sound: Tamas Zanyi

Country: Netherlands, Hungary
97 minutes 2013
language: Hungarian
Subtitled: Englisch, Dutch, French
Shot on: 35 mm, ratio: 1:2.35
Sales agent: WIDE Management / Eye on Film (EoF) Label / Filmfreak The Netherlands

PRESS:

– Slow Criticism Festivalists:
‘Impressive first feature, ingenious non-linear structure. Echoes of great European directors like Tarkovski or Béla Tarr.’

– De Volkskrant
“A wonderful discovery Silent Ones, the confident disrupting debut, Best Dutch Film”

– George Sluizer, filmdirector
“Masterful film, very stylish, great cinematography and very fascinating.”

– The Hollywood Reporter:
‘Arty thriller Silent Ones has a intriguing set-up and a stylish look, visually ravishing.’

– Jim Delvaux, BIFF Berlin
“Great film, this is uncompromising cinema, take it or leave it. I’m taking it”

– Danny Lennon, Curator Film PHI Centre Montreal
“Outstanding film debut. Attention talent! One of the best films I saw at the IFF Rotterdam.”

– Jim Stark, American Independent Producer (a.o. Jim Jarmusch)
“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.”

FESTIVALS:42th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Tiger Award Competition. World Premiere
European Film Festival Lecce (Italy)
Official Selection / Competition
Budapest, Titanic International Film Festival (Hungary)
Competition / Main program
35th Moscow International Film Festival (Russia)
Official Selection / Main Program
T- Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (Poland)
New Horizons International Competition / Main program
19th Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Official Selection / Program Operation Kino
4th Avantura Festival Filmforum Zadar (Croatia)
Competition Best European Co-production
Prague, Fresh Film Fest,
International Young Talents Festival Prague (Czech Republic)
Official Selection / Fresh Generation
Mumbai, Jagran International Film Festival (Mumbai, India)
Official Selection / Main program
Kaunas International Film Festival (Lithuania)
Official Selection / Main program
Montreal PHI Centre, Montréal (Canada)
Special Screening
Los Angeles International Film Festival La Femme, (USA)
Official Selection / Competition
37th Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil)
Official Selection / New Directors Competition
Netherlands International Debut Film Festival Scenecs
Dutch Golden Stone Awards / Competition
13th Pune International Film Festival (India)
Official Selection /Main program
Berlin Independent Film Festival, 2014
Official Selection / Competition
Skopje International Film Festival 2014, (Macedonia)
Official Selection / Main program
Netherlands Film Festival 2014 (Netherlands)
Selection International Co-production
Los Angeles Women’s Indie Film Festival, (USA)
Official Selection / Competition
Rio de Janeiro Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino (Brazil)
Official Selection
Les Rencontres des Cinémas d’Europe 2014 (France)
Main Program
New York No Limits Film Series 2014 (USA)
Official Selection / Competition
Toronto Independent Film Festival 2014 (Canada)
Official Selection / Competition
New York Independent Film Festival 2014 (USA)
Official Selection / Competition
37^thFestival International De Films De Femmes Créteil 2015 (France)
Official Selection /Main program
Manaki Brothers Cinematographers festival 2015 (Macedonia)
Official Selection
Somerset International Film Festival 2015 (UK)
Official Selection
Cyprus International Film Festival 2015 (Greece)
Official Selection / Competition

Awards and Nominations:
Nomination Tiger Award, 42th International Film Festival
Rotterdam (Netherlands) 2013

Winner Best Cinematography Award, European Film
Festival, Lecce (Italy) 2013

Winner Best Supporting Actor Award, European Film
Festival, Lecce (Italy) 2013

Winner Dutch Golden Stone Best Film, Netherlands Debut
Film Festival 2013

Winner Best Female Director, Toronto Independent Film
Festival (Canada) 2014

Winner Best Feature Film, New York No Limits Film Series
(USA) 2014

Winner Best Film Berlin IFF, Berlin Independent Film
Festival (Germany) 2014

Winner Honorable Mention Narrative Feature, Los
Angeles Women’s Ind’ Film Festival (USA) 2014

Winner Best Cinematography, Los Angeles Women’s Ind’
Film Festival (USA) 2014

Winner Best Cinematography, Cyprus International Film
Festival 2015

Winner Best Editing, Cyprus International Film Festival
2015

Winner Best Project 1th Rotterdam talent City Award,
(Netherlands) 2013

Nomination International Jury Award Best Film, 37th Sao
Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil) 2013

Nomination Best European Co-production, 4th Avantura
Festival Filmforum, Zadar (Croatia) 2013

Nomination Breaking the Waves Award, Budapest, Titanic
International Film Festival (Hungary) 2013

Nomination Grand Prix, 13th T-Mobile New Horizons
International Film Festival (Poland) New Horizons
International Competition / Main program 2013

about the director

Ricky Rijneke graduated as Master of Arts in European Media with honours. She is a film director who also works as scriptwriter, editor, photographer and graphic designer. Silent Ones is her first feature.

http://www.rickyrijneke.com/