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Section: Competition of European First Feature Films
Afterlife (2018)
Sam is a very bright, very mature 14-year old girl. She´s a good student, disciplined and always on time. This is all the more impressive once you realize she juggles those responsibilities while caring for her little brothers. When her mother Vera passed away, Sam took up responsibility for the family, helping her dad out around the house. But when Sam has an accident on the way to school, she wakes up in a strange office across from someone claiming she´s dead. It was a truck, he says. He also tells her that her mother, Vera, is waiting for her here, on the other side. It´s a strange mixture of joy and sadness for Sam, being dead on the one hand, but getting to see her mom in return. Something she thought she would never do again. But Vera reluctantly decides that they must find a way to bring Sam back to life. But Sam has her own agenda. She´s taking her mother with her.
| Country | Netherlands |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Duration | 93 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | Dutch |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Willem Bosch |
| Screenplay | Willem Bosch |
| Director of Photography | Jacco van Ree |
| Music | Arno Krabman |
| Edited by | Bas Icke |
| Contact | Pupkin |
Biography
A Dutch screenwriter and director. He graduated from a film academy. As a screenwriter, he has written a number of successful TV series and film projects. He's directed the short films Scroll Lock (2010) and Weg Met Willem (2015); his feature-length debut is the drama Afterlife (Hiernamaals, 2019). He is the author of the novel Black Out (Op Zwart, 2012).