SPICE
Koen Mortier
Synopsis
Louis, a 16-year-old boy, descends into psychosis after using the synthetic cannabis “Spice”. Thereby forever changing his life and the lives of his parents. While Louis is trapped in a world of delusions, paranoia, and uncontrollable rage, his parents each try, in their own way, to help their son. They search for the right guidance and mental health care, but also for answers within their immediate surroundings, where drug use has become disturbingly normalized.
The story is a painful yet hopeful portrait of a middle-class family struggling with the aftermath of addiction and the indifference of the outside world.
Production Status
In pre-production.
Script, Development and Production Support from Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
Bio Director
Koen Mortier has been active in the film world as an author, director and producer. He set his first step into the film industry with 2 shorts: ‘Ana Temnei’ and ‘A Hard Day’s Work’. In 2007 Koen directed ‘Ex Drummer’, which received many festival selections and prizes and was sold to more than 20 countries. Three years later his second film followed: ‘22nd of May’ that also won prizes and was sold to 10 countries. Koen directed a 7’-short ‘Playing away from Home’. It was part of the worldwide project ‘Short Plays’. His third feature film ‘Angel’ has been released at TIFF 2018. Currently, he has undertaken 2 ambitious projects: Voices Of Liberation, an 11 part docu-series about WW2, and Skunk, a new feature film about mistreated children and revenge based off of the book ‘Skunk’ by Geert Taghon. Skunk premièred at the Tallin Black Nights Film Festival in youth competition and won Best Film Award.