From the 6th until the 26th of December the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) will be held in Malaysia. During the festival a total of 20 different films from European Union 16 countries will be shown at various Golden Screen Cinemas in Kuala Lumpur and Penang. The Dutch entry for the EUFF is the film "Nynke":

Pieter Jelles Troelstra soon becomes caught up in the socialist movement. But after the birth of her son, she becomes isolated and has a nervous breakdown. The first professor of psychiatry in Holland, advises her to abandon her ambitions. Her role in life, her destiny, is motherhood.

At first she courageously accepts his advice and does everything she can to be a good mother and a mainstay for her 'militant' husband. But this self-sacrificing attitude avenges itself. The more she tries, the more she becomes alienated from herself.

After leaving Pieter Jelles, the love of her life, Sjoukje was able to improve her talent as a writer. She wrotes numerous stories for children. After 20 years of writing and travelling, Sjoukje returned to Holland. All her admirers called her 'mem', the Friesian word for mother.

Sjoukje Bokma - de Boer died when she was 79 years old, ten years after Pieter Jelles Troelstra.

Awards: Golden and Platin Film Award at the Golden and Platin Film Awards 2001, Best Actress for Monic Hendrickx at the 2001 Netherlands Film Festival and 2002 Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Film at the 2001 Netherlands Film Festival
Director: Pieter Verhoeff - 2001, 108 minutes
Producer: Hans de Weers & Hans de Wolf - Egmond Film and Television
Cast: Monic Hendrickx, Jeroen Willems, Peter Tuinman

Nynke will be shown on the following dates:

Sunday 9 December: 3.30pm at GSC Mid-Valley (Hall14)
Monday 10 December: 12.45pm at GSC Mid-Valley (Hall 14)
Tuesday 11 December: 12.45pm at GSC Mid-Valley (Hall 14)
Thursday 13 December: 3.00pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Thursday 13 December: 9.00pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Friday 14 December: 3.30pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Friday 14 December: 9.00pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Saturday 15 December: 3.30pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Saturday 15 December: 9.00pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Sunday 16 December:   3.30pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Sunday 16 December:   9.00pm at GSC KL Pavilion
Saturday 22 December: 9.00pm at GSC Gurney Plaza - Penang
Monday 24 December: 3.15pm at GSC Gurney Plaza - Penang

For more information about the EUFF and the showtimes & synopsises of the other films playing, please visit:  www.euff2007.com

Date: 6 December 2007 - 26 December 2007

Location

Kuala Lumpur, Penang