Afterlife
(Hiernamaals)
Year: 2019
Country:
NETHERLANDS
Language:
Dutch
Run Time:
93 minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
What if we could live our life again? After her mother has an accident and dies, young Sam is left to care for her father and two young brothers. Barely 16, she, too, suffers a fatal accident and finds herself under the care of Martin, a scruffy angel (called a “civil servant”) who presents her with a choice: go to the hereafter and join her mother or reincarnate elsewhere. Sam chooses the hereafter, but her mother is not pleased. Sam is too young. She should live. Plus, there is a forbidden “option”—Sam can live her entire life again. She decides to do so, determined this time to make everything better and save her mom. Sam tries hard to remember her first life but the details fade. Now she again faces life itself, full of imperfect people and hard choices. AFTERLIFE is a magical and touching film about grief and loss that tempers the fantasy with bittersweet and sometimes gritty reality. A thoughtful and engaging film, it challenges us to appreciate the life we have. (In Dutch with subtitles) —C.R.
CIFF43 Screenings
Thursday, April 04, 2019 at 7:15 PM
Friday, April 05, 2019 at 11:35 AM
Sunday, April 07, 2019 at 9:20 AM
Competition
New Direction Competition
Director
Willem Bosch
Willem Bosch is an author and screenwriter for television series and drama, action, and thriller films. AFTERLIFE is Bosch’s first feature film in the director’s seat.
Filmography
AFTERLIFE (2019)
Producers
Pieter Kuijpers, Iris Otten, Sander van Meurs, Felix van Gisbergen
Screenwriting
Willem Bosch
Cinematography
Jacco van Ree
Editing
Bas Icke
Principal Cast
Sanaa Giwa, Romana Vrede, Gijs Scholten van Asschat, Jan-Paul Buijs, Ria Eimers
ThIs film is dedicated to CHRISTOPHER SUSTER and NANCY WASYLYSHYN by PAM CERIO DESIGN. Thank you Nancy and Chris for your hard work and dedication. Now that our work is finished, AFTERLIFE reminds us there is life after the Program Guide design is done.
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