Dood van een Schaduw (2012)

Directed by

Tom Van Avermaet

Genre

fantasy film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

20 min

Rated

14A

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dead soldier finds himself in a strange realm where he works as a collector of shadows. He must gather a certain number of shadows to earn his way back to life.

poeticmelancholicatmosphericsomberhauntingwhimsicalquietbittersweet

What happens

Death of a Shadow (Dutch: Dood van een Schaduw) is a 2012 Belgian fantasy short film written and directed by Tom Van Avermaet, starring Matthias Schoenaerts. On 10 January 2013, it was nominated for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. After being nominated for an Oscar, the film was released along with all the other 15 Oscar-nominated short films in theaters by ShortsHD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Rotkop (2012)
• Time of My Life (2012)
• The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
• Comme un homme (2012)
• The Day of the Crows (2012)
• In the Name of the Son (2012)
• Le cri du homard (2012)
• The Painting (2011)