Guernsey

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.
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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 (1968, Netherlands) is an established figure in Dutch art house cinema. She studied Directing at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She won the Tuschinski Award for her graduation film Weekend (1998) as well as the Kodak Prize at the Munich Film Festival. She worked as a director in Dutch television before making her feature film debut with her feature debut Îles flottantes. In cooperation with visual artist Daan Emmen, she started “Beeldcollectief Leopold Emmen” which led to the film Close-up (2009). Her film It’s All So Quiet, based on the novel by Gerbrand Bakker, was the opening film of the Panorama Special programme at the Berlinale in 2013, going on to win awards worldwide (it was also screened in the 54 Thessaloniki IFF’s “Open Horizons” program). Her latest film Cobain, a coming-of-age drama, made a sensation in the 68th Berlinale in 2018, where it premiered.

Filmography

1998 Weekend
1999 Max Lupa
2000 Îles flottantes
2005 Guernsey
2007 Wolfsbergen
2010 Brownian Movement
2013 Boven is het stil | It's All So Quiet
2018 Cobain