Cobain

It's pretty screwed up to be named after someone who shot himself in the head, - 15-year-old Cobain knows he wasn't born under a lucky star. Despite this, fate has finally started smiling upon him, as he is being moved from a boys' home to a foster family. Blocking his path to a better future, however, is his addiction-not to drugs but to a person, his drug-addict mother, who is expecting another child. Unemployed and constantly drunk, she is own her biggest enemy. Although she has been written off by the entire world, he can't forget about her. He runs away from his new foster home to save her from herself. The latest film from Nanouk Leopold (Wolfsbergen, Brownian Movement, It's All So Quiet) is a film that pulls no punches. The Dutch director presents, in an uncompromising fashion and judging no one, the lives of human shadows living on the streets in Rotterdam: homeless people, drug addicts and prostitutes. Living among them, the title character has to grow up far too early. His fight to save his self-destructive mother is convincingly portrayed by Bas Keizer, a young actor in his first role. With the camera constantly on him, the boy displays a full range of emotions in every movement: from rage to seemingly incomprehensible tenderness.