Dates
Mon 7 Jul, 5pm & 8pm
Pre-booking recommended
Monday Night Cinema
Julie Keeps Quiet
(Julie zwijgt)
Julie (Tessa Van den Broeck) is a high school tennis prodigy who attends an elite tennis academy. She’s a disciplined, dedicated athlete whose life revolves around the game she loves. But when the academy’s previous star player tragically takes her own life, her world is thrown into disarray. The film closely follows Julie's journey as she navigates her feelings, slowly digesting the news as she comes to terms with her own relationship and experience with her coach. Intimately shot, the film is an intricate study in cinematic tension; a taut, delicate exploration of a character’s inner world and emotional turmoil as she quietly reckons with what has happened, and what to do next.
While Van Dijl focuses on Julie’s experience, the film questions the systemic failures of institutions that prioritise achievement and success above all else, creating a toxic culture that enables abuses of power to take place. Julie’s refusal to speak is a silent protest against the superficial actions taken by those in power too late, forcing them to acknowledge their own culpability.