International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Let Me Go Home

Chiel Aldershoff, The Netherlands, 2009, color, HDcam, 15'

IDFA

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Sietske was taken out of her mother's custody at the age of seven. Since then, she has run away from 39 foster homes. She refuses to accept the fact that she can no longer live with her mother. Sietske has spent the last 18 months in a youth detention facility. Soon, the day will come that she will be allowed to go outside.

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Credits

Director
Chiel Aldershoff
Cinematography
Adri Schrover
Peter Lataster
Editing
Chris van Oers
Sound
Wouter Veldhuis
Benny Jansen
Production
Frank Hoeve for IJswater Films
Marc Bary for IJswater Films
Involved TV Channel
NCRV

Selected for

IDFA TV 2011
IDFA 2009

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Genre: Human Interest / Social Issues
Genre: Youth
Country of Production: Netherlands, The
non competitive program: Kids & Docs
Length: 0 - 30

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