Mieke Daneels
Belgium
2011 | 1:13:00

In Gesmoord (Smothered), a traumatised young mother of three drives away with her kids without any real destination in mind. She creates a new world for herself and her children. They spend days playing games and hanging out. It’s their world, where the youngest son can wear pretty dresses without giving it a second thought, eat waffles for dinner, brush their teeth in the pool, swim with clothes on, see dinosaurs everywhere, all far from the ‘dangerous outside world’. But although she lost her lover, she wants the sun back in her garden, even when the flowers are dead. She lets him go and embraces their love in her heart so she can live again.