My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (2019)

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

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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