Winner of five major awards, including the Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival and the Rembrandt award for Best Film, Little Sister is an audacious film that solidified Robert Jan Westdijk as a major talent. Westdijk masterfully uses a home video aesthetic to create a quietly terrifying, yet often funny, depiction of a brother-sister relationship troubled by a deep, buried secret. On her 20th birthday, brother Martijn (Romijn Conen) suddenly reunites with his sister, Daantje (Kim van Kooten). With video camera in hand, he tapes her every move, subsequently sabotaging her relationship with her close friends. Little Sister is a perfect example of intimate cinema, where the filmmaking style and the content of the story work together to give us an emotionally real and visually satisfying experience. In Dutch with English subtitles.

Robert Jan Westdijk---Netherlands---1996---91 mins.