You are my friend

2018 · 74 min

Making friends is something you have to learn, and it happens through trial and error. Six-year-old Branche has just moved from Macedonia to the Netherlands with his parents and is going to school for the first time. He doesn’t speak Dutch. In teacher Kiet’s class, Branche has to find his place among classmates with whom he shares neither a language nor a background. Finding a friend turns out to be anything but easy. And when he finally does, that friend can suddenly move away and disappear from his life overnight. The documentary follows Branche from the panic of his first day at school to a confident boy in the class of teacher Wout.

Credits

  • Screenplay, production and direction · Petra and Peter Lataster-Czisch

  • Editing · Mario Steenbergen

  • Camera · Peter Lataster

  • Sound · Gertjan Miedema

  • Sound design · Hugo Dijkstal

  • Line producer · Marty de Jong

  • Broadcaster · KRO-NCRV

  • Producer · Petra and Peter Lataster-Czisch for L&F Productions