IDFA 2002
Tongen
French Kissing
Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden
Netherlands
2002
15 min
Malissa is thirteen years old and attending the first class at secondary school. In the past few months, her life has changed a lot: she wears much hipper clothes now, uses make-up, acts tougher, and has two new best friends: Manon and Karlijn. And Malissa is in love. She would like to have a relationship with Roy, but lacks the courage to ask him. Nearly all the kids in her class have already French-kissed, but not Malissa. When she reads in her horoscope that the time is right to take her first step in love, Malissa hesitates no longer. She sends her friends to Roy…
Credits
Production
NCRV - Jeugd
NCRV - Jeugd
Cinematography
World Sales
NPO Sales
NPO Sales
Distribution for the Netherlands
NCRV - Jeugd
NCRV - Jeugd
Screening copy
NCRV - Jeugd
NCRV - Jeugd