Guernsey

Anna is a 30-year-old woman who works as a development consultant in “Third World” countries, specialized in irrigation. Her life seems blithe and predictable, until one day, in one of her regular, exotic visits for field work, she will find the body of a colleague who decided to end her life. From that point onwards, she will start observing her own life from a distance, discovering how alien her congenial people feel. A film about the ability of the distant to radically change the close and intimate, about observation and empathy – in other words, about the inherent power of cinema.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Nanouk Leopold

Script: Nanouk Leopold

Cinematography: Richard van Oosterhout

Editing: Katharina Wartena

Sound: Hans Helewaut, Bram Meindersma

Actors: Maria Kraakman, Fedja van Huêt, Johanna ter Steege, Frank Vercruyssen, Sonho Vischschraper

Production: Circe Films

Producers: Stienette Bosklopper

Co-producers: Rudolf Mestdagh

Costumes: Manon Blom

Make Up: Karijn van Brink

Format: 35mm

Color: Color

Production Country: Belgium, Netherlands

Production Year: 2005

Duration: 90΄

Contact: Circe Films, daya@circe.nl

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.