15th edition
from
09 09 26
to
13 09 26
A Family - Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
1h 25m
Méduse - Salle Multi
2026
This screening is co-presented by the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Caught in the crossfire of their parents’ divorce, Nina and Eli retreat into their own worlds, torn between loyalty, anger and longing to be seen. Through their mirrored eyes, the same story unfolds from two perspectives, revealing how love can fracture and still find its way home.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Nathalie Parent, a psychologist, and Thy Hang, development and outreach officer at the Fondation Jeunes en Tête.
Mees Peijnenburg
Mees Peijnenburg, a Paris based director, is celebrated as one of biggest filmmaking talents to emerge from the Netherlands in recent years. Born in Tokyo in 1989, he studied at the European Film College in Denmark and graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2013. Mees was twice nominated for a Crystal Bear at the Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, for his short films A Hole in my Heart and Even Cowboys Get to Cry. The films traveled all around the world to numerous film festivals, winning over 50+ awards.?In 2016, he received the prestigious Dutch Directors’ Guild Award for A Hole in my Heart, awarded annually for the most remarkable directing performance of the year, and represented the Netherlands at the Academy Awards in the same year.
Mees Peijnenburg - Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
team
Scenario
Bastiaan Kroeger, Mees Peijnenburg
technical sheet
Origin
Belgium
Netherlands
Language
Dutch
Production year
2025
Broadcast type
Fiction
Direction
Mees Peijnenburg
Duration
1h 25m
Presented in collaboration with
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