Cobain

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Cobain, a 15-year-old boy, comes from a broken home, but he is not a broken soul yet. He is trying by any means to help his self-destructive mother, who lives on the street and is about to give birth to her second child, but she cannot carry the weight of the circumstances. As the roles of the adult and the teenager are reversed, Cobain will find himself facing a dilemma. A story of unconventional and unconditional love, about all sorts outcasts in pursuit of happiness.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Nanouk Leopold

Script: Stienette Bosklopper

Cinematography: Frank van den Eeden

Editing: Katharina Wartena

Sound: Andreas Hildebrandt

Music: Harry de Wit

Actors: Bas Keizer, Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck

Production: Circe Films

Producers: Stienette Bosklopper & Lisette Kelder

Co-production: A Private View, Coin Film, Vpro Television, The Film Kitchen

Costumes: Manon Blom

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 94΄

Contact: Beta Cinema, beta@betacinema.com

Awards/Distinctions: Best Screenplay – Lecce European FF 2018

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and from the Dutch Film and Television Academy. Her debut Îles Flottantes was selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition in 2001. Guernsey was selected for the Quinzaine at Cannes in 2005. Wolfsbergen premiered at the Forum of the Berlinale 2007 and was selected for TIFF in the same year. Brownian Movement premiered in Toronto in 2010 and had its European premiere at the Forum in Berlin in 2011. In 2013 It’s All So Quiet was the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama Special. In 2018 Cobain had its world premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation section. Nanouk became a member of the Society of the Arts of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2017 she directed her first play, From the Life of the Marionettes, for the prestigious Amsterdam theatre group ITA and in 2019 The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Nanouk also makes video installations together with visual artist Daan Emmen. Early 2021 they finished an installation for the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam. The same year she made her opera debut with Der Zwerg by Zemlinsky for the Dutch National Opera. She also directed Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch in 2021. With Whitetail, Leopold makes her highly anticipated return to the silver screen.