Jos de Putter Wink de Putter Director Jos de Putter Producer Dieptescherpte / Wink de Putter Screenwriter Jos de Putter Language English Genre Documentary Format Single / 75’ / HD (Scr. format: HDcam) Running time 70 mins Target audience Art house, wildlife Budget €542,830 Contact Wink de Putter Dieptescherpte BV WG PLEIN 259 1054 SE Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 6124478 Email: wink@deepfocus.nl 2012 NPP 41
The Year I Turned 30 Het jaar dat ik 30 werd Family Affair <strong>Film</strong>s, The Netherlands In the pursuit of happiness a ‘living statue’, struggling with her long distance/on-off relationship with a New York writer, takes a wild leap and jumps his way across the ocean. Synopsis Unsupported by her family (who are against everything) and her aimless circle of friends (who are unconditionally loyal) Aag, a neurotic living statue, struggles with her turbulent on/off relationship with the charming Mister, a famous writer, who lives thousands of miles away across the ocean. On her 30th birthday (the age at which one should commit to a steady relationship, a good job, and a mortgage - in that order) Aag decides to bet everything on him. Flying back and forth and taking trips to exotic destinations, she even endures the company of Mister’s mother, an eccentric Holocaust survivor. Little by little, Aag starts to realise what has been obvious to her family and friends all along: Mister doesn’t want a relationship with anyone – except his mother. But just when she is offered a dream job, Mister suddenly asks her to move to New York. In New York, Aag is painfully confronted with Mister’s fear of commitment: he puts her into a Jewish retirement home and travels a lot ‘for work’. She suffers badly from homesickness, so Mister hires a shrink and buys her a beamer for skyping with her family, but the loneliness just gets worse. So Aag breaks it off again, but this time for real, and she returns home empty-handed (except for the beamer). Reluctantly welcomed back by her anti-everything family and her static living-statue friends, Aag is is condemned to the life of a lodger as the person she is subletting her apartment to refuses to leave. Now a born-again Amsterdammer, she tries to come to terms with her disillusionment and finally decides to buy her apartment - with the lodger in it. But the minute she starts to feel like a genuine single woman again, Mister arrives in town... with a ring, paternal longings, and the alarming vow that he has ‘changed forever’ ... Director’s statement The Year I Turned 30 is a quirky and slightly absurd ‘romantic comedy’. Displaying many visual artistic elements, it is a comedy about the position of a modern young woman who believes she must have everything, just because everything is in reach. The pressure is intense, because when you turn 30, like our main character Aag, you need to have your life in order. But Aag secretly just wants to sit on the sofa watching dvds with Mister, a man of the world who is afraid to commit. As a living statue, creating a colourful, fairytale world with her imaginative costumes, Aag tries to find a home in New York and Amsterdam, but hers is a life shaped by her humdrum phobias and her dream to belong to a family one day. Director’s profile Sacha Polak (1982) graduated in 2006 From The Netherlands <strong>Film</strong> And Television Academy with her short film Teer, which was selected for a number of international film festivals. Her short films El Mourabbi (2007), Drang (2008), Under the Table (2008) and Brother (2011) followed. In 2009, she took part in the Directors’ Lab at the Binger <strong>Film</strong>lab. Hemel is Polak’s feature film debut. IN 2012 both her short Brother and her debut feature Hemel were selected for the Berlinale, where she won the FIPRESCI award. The Year I Turned 30 is her third collaboration with screenwriter Helena van der Meulen who wrote Hemel and most recently Luna, which was selected earlier in 2012 for the Berlinale Residency. Production company Family Affair <strong>Film</strong>s is an Amsterdam-based production company founded by Floor Onrust. We produce urgent and contemporary television drama, short and feature films of high artistic quality with a strong author-driven vision. We develop projects with new talent and video artists, and we continue our relation with established filmmakers. Our feature film Code Blue by Urszula Antoniak, coproduced with IDTV <strong>Film</strong>, VPRO and Zentropa, was selected for Cannes’ Directors Fortnight 2011. We produced the multi award-winning feature film Nothing Personal by Urszula Antoniak (6 awards in Locarno), in coproduction with VPRO, Rinkel <strong>Film</strong> and Fastnet <strong>Film</strong>s. Family 42 NPP 2012
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