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‘Narcosis’ Filmmaker Martijn De Jong On Combining Clairvoyance, Deep Sea Diving And Grief – Contenders International

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Narcosis, The Netherlands’ entry for the Best International Feature Oscar, mixes a cocktail of themes perhaps for the first time ever: clairvoyance, deep sea diving and grief.

Directed by Martijn de Jong and co-written with his life partner Laura van Dijk, Narcosis is about a young family that is hit by a tragedy and deals with it in a unique way.

It won the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival as well as Best Film at the Nederlands Film Festival. RELATED: The – Deadline’s Full Coverage De Jong calls Narcosis “kind of a mirror” to his own family, “but not at all biographical.” During Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event, he told us he and van Dijk “treasure hunted” stories that were part of their lives. “One of them is the clairvoyance which is something that my mother does.

She has this ability in real life. I’m quite ambivalent to this,” he said, but van Dijk “was very intrigued.” As for the diving, de Jong explained that fewer people have been to the bottom of Bushman’s Hole than to the moon, “so it intrigued us why do professional divers want to go in there and do this and risk their lives and leave their people behind?” The film is also a study of the stages of grief.

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