BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29427@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:IDFA x De Balie: Gabin DTSTAMP:20261023T202126Z DTSTART:20261120T183000Z DESCRIPTION:For ten years\, this coming-of-age documentary follows Gabin\, a sensitive\nteenager growing up in the French countryside. Between the ex pectations of his\nhardworking parents and his own dreams\, he gradually f inds his own path.\n\nGabin doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footste ps. He has no desire to be a\nbutcher\; he wants to work with living anima ls. He likes talking about his\nfeelings\, cuddling his favorite cows\, an d playing video games. His teenage\ngrowing pains are ordinary\, yet compl ex\, and director Maxence Voiseux captures\nthese formative years with rem arkable serenity.\n\nOver ten years\, the film follows Gabin as he grows u p in the countryside of\nnorthern France\, between the cattle farm of his loving mother and the butcher\nshop of his taciturn father. Using a static camera\, Voiseux quietly observes\nGabin as he searches for his own path while his parents struggle to keep their\nbusiness afloat.\n\nAccompanied by dreamlike music\, the film offers a tender portrait of a teenager\non t he threshold of adulthood. Amid mounting pressure from his father\, an\nin evitable move to an agricultural boarding school\, and the peaceful landsc apes\nof northern France\, Gabin reveals the poetic struggle of a boy dete rmined at all\ncosts to remain true to himself. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/idfa-x-de-balie-gabin GEO:52.3630433;4.8828596 LOCATION:De Balie - Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10\, 1017 RR Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,documentary,film,games,leidseplein,music,talk X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

For ten years, this coming-of-age d ocumentary follows Gabin, a sensitive teenager growing up in the French co untryside. Between the expectations of his hardworking parents and his own dreams, he gradually finds his own path.

Gabin doesn’t wa nt to follow in his father’s footsteps. He has no desire to be a butcher; he wants to work with living animals. He likes talking about his feelings, cuddling his favorite cows, and playing video games. His teenage growing pains are ordinary, yet complex, and director Maxence Voiseux captures the se formative years with remarkable serenity.

Over ten years, the fi lm follows Gabin as he grows up in the countryside of northern France, bet ween the cattle farm of his loving mother and the butcher shop of his taci turn father. Using a static camera, Voiseux quietly observes Gabin as he s earches for his own path while his parents struggle to keep their business afloat.

Accompanied by dreamlike music, the film offers a tender p ortrait of a teenager on the threshold of adulthood. Amid mounting pressur e from his father, an inevitable move to an agricultural boarding school, and the peaceful landscapes of northern France, Gabin reveals the poetic s truggle of a boy determined at all costs to remain true to himself.

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