Springtide: a lone figure stands by a small beacon tower on a rocky breakwater at dusk

Springtide

directed by Elke Hertogs

What does it mean to feel at home, and how can we carry those feelings of comfort with us in an ever-changing environment as we seek out new landscapes? Springtide is a coming-of-age portrait of a girl balancing on a thin line between adolescence and adulthood as she embarks on a spiritual journey.

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Elke Hertogs

Springtide is a coming-of-age portrait directed by Elke Hertogs, following a girl balancing on the thin line between adolescence and adulthood as she sets out on a spiritual journey. Its central question is about belonging — what it means to feel at home, and how we carry that comfort with us as the landscape around us keeps changing. The cinematography leans on place and natural light to externalise that search, letting the shifting environments do the emotional work alongside the performance. Photographed by Victor Maes.

Springtide: close profile of a young woman listening on a payphone receiver, eyes lowered
Springtide: a young woman in a pale sweater makes a call at an outdoor payphone beside green branches
Springtide: a weathered wooden jetty stretches into a calm bay under scattered clouds and distant hills
Springtide: seen from behind, a blonde woman in a white shirt gazes across a wide bay under a cloudy sky
Springtide: a silhouetted figure walks along a rocky ridge crest against the glaring sun
Springtide: close-up of a hand in a pale shirt sleeve pressed against sunlit rough rock
Springtide: extreme close-up of a woman's blue eyes behind windblown strands of blonde hair
Springtide: the back of a woman's head against a darkening sea and soft pink dusk horizon
Springtide: white sea foam swirls over dark rocks in cold blue evening light
Springtide: a pale boulder rests on a low rock shelf in a dark blue sea at dusk
Springtide: surf churns and foams around dark seaweed-covered rocks in blue twilight
Springtide: a lone figure stands by a small beacon tower on a rocky breakwater at dusk

Credits

Director

Elke Hertogs

Cast

Shauni Goetz

Cinematographer

Victor Maes

Assistant Director

Christian van de Pol

Editor

Joris Vertenten

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