Nanouk Leopold is a Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 film maker. She graduated from Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 film school in 1997, starting off by making films for Dutch television. In 2001, she released her first feature film Îles flottantes ("Floating Islands), as part of the No More Heroes project that also meant the feature film debut of directors Martin Koolhoven

Martin Koolhoven

Martin Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.Born as Martinus Wouter Koolhoven, Koolhoven graduated from Dutch film school in 1996 and almost immediately made an impact on the Dutch film industry with his 53 minute television film Duister Licht in which the slaughtering of a pig was...

 and Michiel van Jaarsveld. Îles flottantes was selected for the Tiger Awards of the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Her long-awaited follow up came in 2005 when she made Guernsey (nl), which won her two awards at the Dutch Film Festival and got her selected for Une Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

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Another film she directed is Wolfsbergen (2007), a slow film with little action and much silence (no music and little talking). The actors include Jan Decleir

Jan Decleir

Jan Decleir is a prolific Belgian movie and stage actor born in Niel, Antwerp .He had his first big role in Fons Rademakers "Mira" and has since then appeared in countless Flemish and Dutch films and tv productions...

.http://daily.greencine.com/archives/003247.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824422/

Plot Wolfsbergen

An old man announces in a letter to his family that he will commit suicide. The characters include a daughter with husband, and two granddaughters, of which one with a husband and two daughters. The suicide is carried out by not eating and drinking.

External links

• interview with Nanouk Leopold about Wolfsbergen on European-films.net