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THE COLUMNIST

DE KUTHOER

By Ivo VAN AART

FILM MOVEMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, North America

Thriller - Completed 2019

Well known Columnist and writer Femke, finds herself being bashed and threatened for months on social media.. The hate-mails keep her awake at night. When she is totally fed up, she decides to takes matters in her own hands, with grave consequences…. But will her actions pay off?

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Ivo VAN AART
- Writer(s)
- Daan WINDHORST
- Cast
- Katja HERBERS, Genio DE GROOT, Rein HOFMAN
- Producer(s)
- Kaja WOLFFERS (NL Film), Sabine BRIAN (NL Film), Ronald VERSTEEG (NL Film), Robert KIEVIET (BNNVARA)
- Synopsis
- Successful columnist Femke is flooded every day by (anonymous) nasty messages and death allegations on social media, and mainly coming from the sewer of the internet: Twitter. She becomes addicted to the vicious messages, and finds herself at night, continuously clicking back to the hateful comments before she goes to sleep. Not only is this affecting her inspiration to write her columns , she is also needs to finish writing the novel she promised to deliver her publisher.
  
  Finally, one day she is completely done with it and the anger in her ignites fast…. The act of violence and revenge eases and inspires her – she writes like never before.