How Camels Become Lions, How Camels Become Lions

Lydia Rigaux

Belgium, 2017, Color, 61’

World Premiere

When camels become lions. Four episodes about a metamorphosis, four characters – Vincent, Renée, Alice and Robin – with their loved ones at a watershed moment in their lives, trying to find their place and freedom again. Lydia Rigaux’s first fiction film contrasts waiting with action, silences with long monologues, off- camera shots with bright lights. Will the useless beast of burden lost in a desert landscape manage to roar in its new territory?

Technical sheet

  • Version originale:
    dutch, french, english, russian.
  • Subtitles:
    english
  • Script:
    Lydia Rigaux.
  • Photography:
    Dries Delputte.
  • Editing:
    Lydia Rigaux.
  • Sound:
    Matthias Hillegeer.
  • Casting:
    Els Deceukelier, Daan Stuyven, Anemone Valcke, Fien De Bruyne, Del ne Bafort, Isabelle De Hertogh, Baloji Tshiani.
  • Production & distribution:
    Emmy Oost (Cassette for timescapes).