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Completed - DUTCH, ENGLISH - Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

A story about cultural differences when west meets east in Tokyo. In the style of Lost in Translation, Fear and Trembling and In the mood for love.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2012 (Debut)
  • AFM 2012 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Threes ANNA
Writer(s) : Threes ANNA
Cast : Laurence ROOTHOOFT

Producer(s) : Hanneke NIENS (KeyFilm), Hans DE WOLF (KeyFilm)

Synopsis

After her award winning debut The Bird Can’t Fly, Threes Anna has developed the international co-production SILENT CITY, based on her own novel ‘De Stille Stad’. Silent City is a psychological drama mixing an inevitable form with a psychological portrait of a young European woman who faces the harsh loneliness of Tokyo in order to master the secrets of the Japanese art of filleting fish.Threes Anna shows poetically how lonely one can be in a city with over a million inhabitants.

Production

Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG

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Festivals and Awards

San Sebastian FF 2012 New Directors
IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg 2012 Int'l Competition


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