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Do you remember any details on the plot?
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Plot details: not much beyond I've already said, but there was a possible potential kidnapping and typical coming-of-age focus on dealing with a bully. I should add the protagonist was fairly young — not very good at determining kids' ages, but he was probably eight at the oldest, maybe younger. His friend/companion/maybe sibling was a little blond girl around the same age.
About four years ago, one of my professors was previewing a You Tube upload of this film to show to her French class later that week; I had arrived to my class early and caught about 10 minutes of it. It piqued my interest at the time, and she had told me, yet I never got around to watching it — somehow, it crossed my mind tonight.
I'm 99% certain the film was Belgian, it was definitely not from France (I've checked the Belgian Films index, and it's none of those). There's also a possibility it was Canadian, but stylistically it had a very European indie/art house/experimental vibe.
It featured a boy as its main character, but by the words of my professor "about a child but not a 'children's film' in the American sense", either meaning children weren't the target audience and/or contained content that wouldn't fly with American parents. It had a weird premise and a feeling of strangeness/mystery I found intriguing, and while a drama film (there may have been a serial killer or stalker involved) it seemed to have some dark comedy elements, too.
I don't think it was a recent film, I would place it in the eighties or nineties, the early 2000s at the latest.
Edited by mahidevrans