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Completed - DUTCH - Drama - 94 minutes

Log Line

The moving story of a teenage-boy giving all the love he has to give to try and save his mother.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2018 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2018 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Nanouk LEOPOLD
Writer(s) : Stienette BOSKLOPPER
Cast : Bas KEIZER, Naomi VELISSARIOU, Wim OPBROUCK, Dana MARINECI, Cosmina STRATAN

Producer(s) : Stienette BOSKLOPPER (Circe Films), Lisette KELDER (Circe Films)

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.

Production

Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, GERMANY

Financing plan : Co producers: A Private View (BE), Coin Film (DE), VPRO Television (NL), The Film Kitchen (NL)

Funders: Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Eurimages, CoBO Fund, Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Casa Kafka Picturtes, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne (WDR), Abraham Tuschinski Fund

World sales: Beta Cinema
Benelux distribution: Cinemien
German distribution: W-Film


Start of shooting : July 2016

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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2018 Generation
Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018


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