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COBAIN

By Nanouk LEOPOLD

BETA CINEMA - as SALES World

Drama - Completed 2017

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

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2018

Generation

Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, GERMANY
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 94 mn
- 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.
- Partners & financing
- 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
- Beginning of shooting
- Jul 03, 2016
- End of shooting
- Sep 05, 2016

COBAIN

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