Îles Flottantes

Three women in their thirties long to change their lives, but they do so in the wrong way. Sasha starts a relationship with a weird man who hits her. Isa tries to promote her paintings, but her sudden breakup with Kristof transfixes her in sorrow. Kaat, who had an affair with Kristof, also breaks up with her partner to indulge in the comfort of self-pity. A painful, yet cathartic meandering in the labyrinths of a woman’s soul and the contradictions of female friendship, that ends ups in a bittersweet conclusion: No matter how floating, no (wo)man is an island.

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Direction: Nanouk Leopold

Script: Nanouk Leopold

Cinematography: Benito Strangio

Editing: Katharina Wartena

Sound: Ferry de Pater, Antoin Cox

Music: Harry de Wit

Actors: Maria Kraakman, Manja Topper, Halina Reijn Kuno Bakker, Jacob Derwig, Leopold Witte, Aat Ceelen, Annemarie Prins, Richec Tourbais

Production: Circe Films

Producers: Stienette Bosklopper

Co-production: Motel Film, VPRO Television

Art Direction: Diana van de Vossenberg

Costumes: Manon Blom, Ingrid Schagen

Camera: Benito Strangio

Make Up: Marjon Hoogendoorn

Format: 35mm

Color: Color

Production Country: Netherlands

Production Year: 2001

Duration: 82΄

Contact: Circe, daya@circe.nl

Awards/Distinctions: Film Poster Award, Prize of the City of Utrecht – Netherlands FF 2001

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.