Title of film : COBAIN
Director Name : Nanouk Leopold
Cast & crew :
Producer : Stienette Bosklopper,Lisette Kelder
Editor : Katharina Wartena
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Synopsis : Cobain comes from a broken home, but he is not a broken soul yet. He cares deeply for the person who gave him that funny name: his mother Mia. Living on the streets, Mia just can't get a grip on her life, even now that she is heavily pregnant with another child. When Cobain demands that Mia get help for herself and the baby, the two separate after a bitter argument. He finds shelter with Mia's ex Wickmayer, a man who pimps out young, foreign women. Supporting them in their daily lives and flirting with them as he is growing into a young man, Cobain feels he finally found something resembling a home. When Mia attempts to contact her son again, Wickmayer sends her away. But Cobain - seeing she's in an even worse condition - takes responsibility and tries to help Mia to be a good mother for once.
Director Bio : Nanouk Leopold (1968, The Netherlands) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and the Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. Her first feature ÎLES FLOTTANTES was selected for the Hivos Tiger Competition of the 2000 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her second feature, GUERNSEY, was selected in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. WOLFSBERGEN premiered in the International Forum of New Cinema at the 2007 Berlinale and was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival. BROWNIAN MOVEMENT premiered at Toronto in 2010 and had its European premiere in the Forum Section at the 2011 Berlinale. IT’S ALL SO QUIET, based on the novel by Gerbrand Bakker, was the opening film of Panorama Special at the 2013 Berlinale. All of Leopold’s films have been honored with both Dutch and international awards.
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