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MEDULLA

By Rudi BREKELMANS

RUBR FILM - as PROD

First film - Completed 2019

A misogynist psychiatrist grows increasingly obsessed by a female client who liberated herself from a toxic relationship.

Festivals
& Awards

Nederlands Filmfestival 2019

Nominated for best directorial debut

Lift Off Global Network 2020

Best feature film

FIC Autor Guadalajara 2020

Best medium length film

New Renaissance Film Festival 2020

Best thriller / Best actor

Derby Film Festival 2020

Best mid-length film

Amazing shorts Madrid 2021

Best actor / Best supporting actress

Fusion International Film Festival 2021

Best sound design

Austin Arthouse Film Festival 2021

Official selection

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- First film, Experimental, Thriller
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 49 mn
- Director(s)
- Rudi BREKELMANS
- Writer(s)
- Rudi BREKELMANS
- Cast
- Michaël PAS, Astrid VAN ECK, Melody KLAVER, Huub SMIT, Christine VAN STRALEN, Bart OOMEN, Frieda PITTOORS, Jente CLAUS, Rogier SCHIPPERS, Ilse DE KOE, Ariane VAN VLIET
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-64CC-0000-L-0000-0000-B
- Producer(s)
- Rudi BREKELMANS (RUBR Film), Nienke VAN BOOM (Bonsai Film)
- Synopsis
- Charles Dujardin is an agoraphobic psychiatrist who hasn't left his house in years and who has grown increasingly isolated and world-weary. He projects his issues onto his wife and his clients. When an attractive, troubled woman enters his practice he is triggered by her story. Having been trapped inside a toxic relationship for years the untimely death of her husband has left her with a newfound freedom, which she uses to seduce and discard men left and right. Charles obsesses over her and has trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. When his wife is taken ill his projections grow ever darker, culminating in a violent ending.