Jackie

Sofie and Daan are twins, but that is all there is to it. They cannot seem to get along, their lifestyles are just too different. When their biological mother is hospitalised in America with a complicated bone fracture, Sofie and Daan decide to go and help her. Jackie turns out to be anything but the mother the sisters had expected her to be. Sofie figured they could ‘quickly’ fly Jackie to the rehabilitation centre, but because Jackie cannot fly or drive, they are forced to take an old trailer home straight through the New Mexico dessert. Along the way they get to know themselves, each other and their special mother.

Year
2012

Director(s)
Antoinette Beumer

Screenwriter(s)
Marnie Blok, Karen van Holst Pellekaan

Producer(s)
Maarten Swart, Hans de Weers, Reinout Oerlemans for Eyeworks Film & TV Drama © Hollands Licht

Co-Producer(s)
Inspire pictures – Sim van Veen, Indieproduction

DOP
Danny Elsen, NSC

Cast
Carice van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter

Awards

Golden Film Award for + 100.000 admissions
2013 Best Film Award, International competition, Pula Film Festival

Nomination

2012 TIFF, World Competition