Sunday Ninth by Kat Steppe selected for Tallinn
News 07.10.2025Sunday Ninth by Kat Steppe has been selected for the First Features Competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (7-23 November 2025).
The Black Nights Film Festival is the most important international film festival in the Baltic States. Yesterday it was announced that Cecilia Verheyden's Skiff will also be screened there, in the youth film section Just Film.
Sunday Ninth is a feature film by Kat Steppe, known as the director of Taboo and Goed Volk, among others, and tells the story of brothers Horst and Franz who meet again after a life full of missed opportunities. It is time to settle the score, were it not for Alzheimer's throwing a spanner in the works. Flashes from their memories reveal their difficult relationship.
The film, starring Josse De Pauw and Peter Van den Begin, is set in a real nursing home and interweaves the brothers' memories with those of the real residents. The film thus offers a unique insight into the way our memories shape us all. In addition to the leading roles, there are important supporting roles for Frank Lammers, Kristien De Proost, Yoann Blanc and Edwige Bailly.
Sunday the Ninth is a journey through the mind, and it's exciting that this journey is now getting underway. I'm really looking forward to presenting the film to an international audience.
Sunday Ninth is produced by Kato Maes and Sofie Rooseleer for Panenka, in co-production with the Dutch company Isabella Films.
Following its world premiere in Tallinn, distributor Paradiso Filmed Entertainment will release the film in Belgian cinemas on 11 February 2026.
Sunday Ninth was made with the support of the VAF/Film Fund and Screen Flanders, an initiative of VLAIO in collaboration with the VAF.
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