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A woman with dark hair pulled back stands in a forest, wearing a brown jacket, knit sweater, and backpack straps over her shoulders. She looks ahead with a serious, slightly tense expression. The background is blurred trees and soft light.

Whitetail

  Nanouk Leopold

  Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium     103 minutes

Synopsis

During her shifts supervising a wild swath of southern Irish terrain, park ranger Jen is fierce when it comes to fending off the poachers who attempt to encroach on the wildlife inhabiting the forests she safeguards. But shorts when an old boyfriend returns after a long absence, bringing with him memories of a tragedy that changed the course of their lives, cracks begin to show through her tightly controlled demeanor. As the past rears its head, Jen is faced with reconciling deep-seated traumas with new threats lurking both at home and in the woods.

Crackling with intensity, Whitetail is both a white-knuckle thriller and a meditation on the possibility of redemption for past sins. Anchored by a riveting lead performance from Natasha O’Keeffe, writer-director Nanouk Leopold’s probing character study is amplified by its rugged woodland setting, reflecting the unexplored depths of Jen’s fractured psyche.

 English with subtitles

Screenings & Events

Screening

Sun, Oct 19 @ 2:30pm

at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
Venue information...

Scheduled to Attend:
Director Nanouk Leopold
Accessibility options for this screening:
  • Closed Captions
  • Audio Description
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Screening

Tue, Oct 21 @ 8:30pm

at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
Venue information...

Scheduled to Attend:
Director Nanouk Leopold
Accessibility options for this screening:
  • Closed Captions
  • Open Captions
  • Audio Description
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Media

Film Credits

  •   Stienette Bosklopper, Maarten Swart
  •   Nanouk Leopold
  •   Katharina Wartena
  •   Frank van den Eeden
  •   Natasha O'Keeffe, Andrew Bennett, Aaron McCusker, Rory Nolan, Simone Kirby, Aidan O'Hare
  •   Stephen Rennicks
  •   Jorn Baars, Anne Carey, Mike Goodridge, Niam Fagan
  •   Circe Films, Kaap Holland Film. Co-production companies: Keeper Pictures, Savage Films & VPRO broadcast company
  •   https://circe.nl/films/whitetail/

Sponsors

Program Patron

John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation

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