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ND/NF 2009
Program Overview
Amreeka
We Live in Public
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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
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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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