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A LONG GOODBYE
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In this animated, interactive VR experience, we walk in Ida’s shoes, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. A Long Goodbye is a poetic experience about the long goodbye of two lovers who shared a life together.

2025
30 minutes
13+
English, Dutch
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
6DOF Interactive

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ARTISTs

Kate Voet Kate Voet 
Kate Voet is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. She studied English literature and linguistics and film directing at the University of Amsterdam, LUCA and The New School in NYC. Her shorts Les Homards Immortels and The Tears of Things toured internationally. She co-directed interactive VR film A Long Goodbye which premiered at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and won a lion for the Venice Immersive Achievement Prize before continuing its journey to a.o. SXSW, IDFA, Clermont Ferrand. 

Victor Maes Victor Maes 
 Victor Maes graduated from LUCA School of Arts Brussels in 2015 and studied advanced cinematography at the Global Cinematography Institute in Los Angeles. Since 2016, he has worked as a camera assistant and as a cinematographer across fiction and documentary. He co-wrote and co-directed the interactive VR film A Long Goodbye, which premiered at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and won the Venice Immersive Achievement Prize before continuing its journey to a.o. SXSW, IDFA, Clermont Ferrand.

awards

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

  • Venice Immersive Achievement Prize — 82nd Venice International Film Festival // Venice Immersive (Venice, Italy)
  • Cristal for Best Immersive Work — Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Annecy, France)
  • Golden Alexander — Thessaloniki IFF (Thessaloniki, Greece)
  • Best Art Direction — United XR Awards (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Best Applied Game — Belgian Game Awards (Belgium)
  • Best Non-Fiction Work — XR Must Awards
  • Best XR Film (Prix Evaveo) — Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
  • Agog Immersive Impact Award — SXSW (Austin, USA)
  • Best of Fest — Filmgate Interactive (Miami, USA)
  • International XR Award — Prix Numix (Québec, Canada)
  • Creative Advocacy Jury Prize, XR + Interactive Category — SIMA Awards (USA)
  • Best VR — Kaboom Animation Festival (Amsterdam & Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  • Best Storytelling — Guanajuato International Film Festival (Guanajuato, Mexico)
  • Visioni VR Award — 12th International Documentary Festival Visioni dal Mondo (Italy)
  • Grand Jury Award — Art*VR (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Special Jury Prize — Venice Immersive, 82nd Venice Film Festival (Venice, Italy)
  • Special Mention — Anidox:XR (Viborg, Denmark)
  • 78th Emmy Awards Finalist — Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming (United States of America)

SELECTED FESTIVALS

  • Venice International Film Festival — Venice Immersive (Venice, Italy)
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival — VR competition (Annecy, France)
  • Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival — Competition XR (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
  • FIPADOC — Immersive Smart (Biarritz, France)
  • Thessaloniki IFF — In Competition (Thessaloniki, Greece)
  • IDFA DocLab (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • SXSW (Austin, USA)
  • United XR (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Luxembourg City Film Festival — In competition (Luxembourg)
  • NewImages (Paris, France)
  • Doc Edge (Auckland, New Zealand)
  • Kaboom Animation Festival (Amsterdam & Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  • Anima (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Film Fest Gent (Ghent, Belgium)
  • Breedbeeld (The Netherlands)
  • Docfest Brugge (Bruges, Belgium)
  • Kortfilmfestival Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
  • Filmfestival Oostende (Ostend, Belgium)
  • Filmgate Interactive (Miami, USA)
  • Maryland Film Festival (USA)
  • Beijing International Film Festival (Beijing, China)
  • Busan International Short Film Festival (Busan, South Korea)
  • Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) (Busan, South Korea)
  • AWE USA (USA)
  • Church of VR
  • ShorTS IFF (Trieste, Italy)
  • Munich Beyond (Munich, Germany)
  • Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) (Bucheon, South Korea)
  • Games for Change (USA)
  • Galway Film Fleadh (Galway, Ireland)
  • DokuFest (Prizren, Kosovo)
  • Anidox:XR (Viborg, Denmark)
  • Primanima Animation Festival (Budaörs, Hungary)
  • Kaohsiung Film Festival (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
  • Art*VR (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Festival européen du film fantastique de Strasbourg (FEFFS) (Strasbourg, France)
  • Verzió Human Rights Documentary Film Festival — Official Selection
  • Berlinale (EFM) — Official Selection (Berlin, Germany)
  • Animator (Poznań, Poland)
  • Anibar (Peja, Kosovo)

Venice International Film Festival — La Biennale di Venezia Belgian Game Awards United XR

Credits

Director: Kate Voet & Victor Maes ■ Writers: Kate Voet & Victor Maes ■ Produced by: Timescapes, Tarantula, Valk Productions ■ Producers: An Oost, Emmy Oost (Timescapes) ■ Co-Producers: Donato Rotunno (Tarantula), Richard Valk (Valk Productions) ■ Narrators: Elizabeth Counsell (UK), Richard Wells (UK), Marlies Heuer (NL), Derek de Lint (NL) ■ Music: Joep Beving ■ Lead Developer: Frederik Smolders (Polygoat) ■ CG Supervisor: Gael Chaize ■ Art Director: Daniel Balage ■ 2D Animation: Mathieu Jadin, Tom Lemmens, Pieter Vanluffelen ■ Digital Art Studio: Velvet Flare ■ Sound Design: Niels van der Leest, Lars Tesselaar (Game Audio Squad)