ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Can Go Through Skin / Kan door huid heen Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Esther Rots, Country: Netherlands, Release: 2009, Runtime: 94 In the filmlinc blog Tim Young writes that the film "employs striking camerawork and occasionally transcendent use of pop music to create an intimate, nonjudgmental portrait of a woman working her way through a serious trauma." Read the whole review>> Marieke’s carefree life in Amsterdam is dealt two body blows in quick succession: her boyfriend breaks up with her, leaving her wallowing in misery, and a deliveryman breaks into her apartment and assaults her. She escapes to a house in the country, hoping to forget all that has happened. But she will never be the same. The remoteness of the location leaves her alone with only her thoughts, which, rather than help her focus, make her paranoid and fearful of everything and everyone, including helpful neighbor John. Esther Rots, whose two short films have been featured in the New York Film Festival, makes a stunning feature debut with Can Go Through Skin, a hypnotic exploration of the battles that can occur between the subconscious and reality.

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