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My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (2019)

My Extraordinary Summer with Tess poster
Original title
Mijn bijzonder rare week met Tess
Directed by
Steven Wouterlood
Genre
comedy drama, teen film, family film
Country
Germany, Netherlands
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
14
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 64 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A boy on a family holiday meets a girl who involves him in her plan to help people. They spend the summer together and learn about facing their own fears.

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What happens

My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (Dutch: Mijn bijzonder rare week met Tess) is a 2019 Dutch-German comedy-drama film directed by Steven Wouterlood. It is based on the book of the same name by Anna Woltz. The film won the Grand Prize Feature Film Award at the New York International Children's Film Festival in 2019. It also won awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and the KinoKino International Film Festival. In July 2019, it was shortlisted as one of the nine films in contention to be the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards but it was not selected. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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