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Edition XVI

FAKE IT SO REAL

STRANGER IN PARADISE

Director

Guido Hendrikx

Producer

Frank van den Engel

Cinematographer

Emo Weemhoff

Editor

Lot Rossmark

Sound

Tijn Hazen

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STRANGER IN PARADISE

2016

Netherlands

72 min

Color

In a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifarious Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.

Director

Guido Hendrikx (1987) was born and raised in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He studied Liberal Arts & Sciences (Utrecht University, 2007), focusing on courses in philosophy, criminology, film studies and journalism. In 2010, he directed his first short film Day is Done which premiered at IDFA. He enrolled at the Netherlands Film Academy to study Documentary Directing. As a student he directed the internationally acclaimed, award-winning shorts Escort (2013, Oscar Qualifier) and Onder Ons (2014) and co-wrote the script for the short fiction Fernweh (2014, Ena Sendijarevic).

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