Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold (Rotterdam, 1968) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam in 1992 and from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 1998. Her graduation film 'Weekend' won the Tuschinski Award for best student film. Her first feature 'Îles Flottantes' was selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition in 2001. 'Guernsey' was selected for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes in 2005. 'Wolfsbergen' premiered at the Forum of the Berlinale 2007 and was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in the same year. 'Brownian Movement' premiered in Toronto in 2010 and had its European premiere at the Forum in Berlin in 2011. In 2013 ' It's all so quiet' was the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama Special. Nanouk became a member of the Society of the Arts of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2017 she directed her first play, From the Life of the Marionettes, for the prestigious Amsterdam theatre group TGA. Nanouk's sixth feature film 'Cobain' had its world premiere at the Berlinale 2018 in the Generation section and won the award for Best Screenplay at the Lecce European Film Festival and the award for Best Film at the Crossing Europe Film Festival.