THE PUPIL DE PUPIL KARIN JUNGER

  • NETHERLANDS | BELGIUM

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  • DUTCH

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  • 2025

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  • 105 mins

As the line between mentorship and manipulation blurs, 12 year old Daan faces a frightening inner conflict. He admires his football coach Ries, who slowly becomes a central figure in his life and begins to exploit that trust. What feels like attention and encouragement gradually turns into control and abuse. Daan’s behaviour changes as he withdraws from his family, skips school, and becomes increasingly volatile. Caught between shame, loyalty, and confusion, he struggles to understand what is happening to him and how to find a way back to safety and himself.

ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶನ ಮತ್ತು ದುರುಪಯೋಗದ ನಡುವಿನ ಗೆರೆ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಮಸುಕಾಗುತ್ತಾ ಹೋದಾಗ, 12 ವರ್ಷದ ಡಾನ್ ತನ್ನ ಫುಟ್ಬಾಲ್ ಕೋಚ್‌ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಗೂ ಮತ್ತು ದೌರ್ಜನ್ಯಕ್ಕೂ ಇರುವ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಭಯಾನಕ ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸವನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Ineke Kanters, Lisette Kelder

Screenplay :

Karin Junger

Director of Photography :

Martijn van Broekhuizen

Editor :

David Verdurme

Music :

Frederik Van de Moortel

Sound :

Mark Glynne, Jac Vleeshouwers

Cast :

Bart de Wilde, Gijs Naber, Hadewych Minis, Marcel Hensema, Joost Meuwsen

Premier Status :

Indian Premier

Awards - Winner :

Festival del Cinema Europeo, Italy (Special Jury Award)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

The Netherlands FF (World Premiere), Tallinn Black Nights FF - Just Film Youth & Children’s FF (International Premiere - Special Mention)

Karin Junger (b. 1957), grew up in Belgium, lives in the Netherlands. She studied French language, literature and mass communication at the University of Amsterdam and trained in directing at the Maurits Binger Film Institute. Working in fiction and documentary, her first documentary won the Joris Ivens Award, and her fiction films received a Silver Bear at the Berlinale and a Gouden Kalf at the Netherlands FF. Her key works include BIRTHPLACE UNKNOWN (1988), CHICKIES, BABIES & WANNABEES (2000), MAMA BENZ (2002), THE PRICE OF COTTON (2005), BOLLETJES BLUES (2006), SEXY MONEY (2014), ME, ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM (2017) and 10 SONGS FOR CHARITY (2021).

  1. 1. DJ AHMET
  2. 2. SENTIMENTAL VALUE
  3. 3. SOUND OF FALLING
  4. 4. MY FATHER'S SHADOW
  5. 5. NO OTHER CHOICE
  6. 6. WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM
  7. 7. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
  8. 8. RESURRECTION
  9. 9. A POET
  10. 10. MAGELLAN
  11. 11. SIRĀT
  12. 12. FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
  13. 13. THE MASTERMIND
  14. 14. LATE SHIFT
  15. 15. AMRUM
  16. 16. CASE 137
  17. 17. SKIN OF YOUTH
  18. 18. WE BELIEVE YOU
  19. 19. BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD
  20. 20. FATHER
  21. 21. MORTICIAN
  22. 22. TO THE VICTORY!
  23. 23. DREAMS
  24. 24. THE BLUE TRAIL
  25. 25. MOTHERTONGUE
  26. 26. A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
  27. 27. FIUME O MORTE!
  28. 28. THE THINGS YOU KILL
  29. 29. YOUNG MOTHERS
  30. 30. THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO
  31. 31. CATANE
  32. 32. PROMISED SKY
  33. 33. CHRISTY
  34. 34. I ONLY REST IN THE STORM
  35. 35. THE PUPIL
  36. 36. COMANDANTE FRITZ
  37. 37. IMPATIENCE OF THE HEART
  38. 38. STRAIGHT CIRCLE
  39. 39. DRY LEAF
  40. 40. A USEFUL GHOST
  41. 41. SLEEPLESS CITY
  42. 42. OUTCRY
  43. 43. MY UNCLE JENS
  44. 44. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
  45. 45. KONTINENTAL '25
  46. 46. JANINE MOVES TO THE COUNTRY
  47. 47. DIVINE COMEDY
  48. 48. A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
  49. 49. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE
  50. 50. GOD WILL NOT HELP
  51. 51. TÊTES BRÛLÉES
  52. 52. REEDLAND
  53. 53. DEAD DOG
  54. 54. NINO
  55. 55. BEFORE THE BODY
  56. 56. LOVE ME TENDER
  57. 57. THE LAST AMBASSADOR
  58. 58. CARAVAN
  59. 59. WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU
  60. 60. AS WE BREATHE
  61. 61. TALES OF THE WOUNDED LAND
  62. 62. HALF MOON
  63. 63. THE PORTUGUESE HOUSE
  64. 64. FOLLIES
  65. 65. THE DEVIL SMOKES
  66. 66. VANILLA
  67. 67. BLUE HERON
  68. 68. KOKORAS
  69. 69. DRAGONFLY
  70. 70. KIKA
  71. 71. MAYSOON
  72. 72. BEACHCOMBER
  73. 73. WIND, TALK TO ME
  74. 74. BROKEN VOICES
  75. 75. RENOVATION
  76. 76. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
  77. 77. HUMAN RESOURCE
  78. 78. NOMAD SHADOW
  79. 79. THE DREAMED ONES
  80. 80. TWO PROSECUTORS
  81. 81. CLOISTERED SISTER
  82. 82. ORENDA
  83. 83. DE TAL PALO
  84. 84. MILITANTROPOS
  85. 85. RIVERSTONE
  86. 86. OSLO: A TAIL OF PROMISE
  87. 87. MAHIMA
  88. 88. BELÉN