Julie Keeps Quiet

In Leonardo van Dijl’s 2024 Belgian film Julie Keeps Quiet, a young tennis player is suddenly separated from her emotionally (and, the film suggests, physically) abusive coach after one of his former students dies by suicide. Julie, played by first-time actress Tessa Van den Broeck, is pressured by the director of her tennis club to speak about her experiences with her coach, but she refuses to comply. Instead, she keeps quiet as she slowly adjusts to a world without her coach’s domineering interference, finding new joy in tennis and making friends with her fellow students at her tennis academy.