Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold (born Rotterdam, 25 July 1968) is a Dutch film maker. She graduated from Dutch 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 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.

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.[1] [2]

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

• Nanouk Leopold at the Internet Movie Database
• interview with Nanouk Leopold about Wolfsbergen on European-films.net

Persondata
Name	Leopold, Nanouk
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	25 July 1968
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death