Edwin Brienen

A psych-drama-thriller combo that tackles shady politicians, leaked documents and a lack of enthusiasm for religion.

Follows two couples through the heat of summer for 24 hours. What began as a peaceful summer afternoon ends with violent excesses in one hell of a night.

Twenty-three-year-old Lena lands a lead in Sartre’s “No Exit” while endlessly seeking love. Her call‐girl friend Becky convinces her to try prostitution, plunging Lena into a bizarre free‐love world of surreal encounters. Complicating matters, she falls for her director, Dex White, and cares for her grieving, balloon‐making father.

Claire, Romy, Magali, Loete, and Jim are typical Brienen’s characters: their excessive lifestyle rhythmed by sex and drugs puts them in the margins of society, refusing to believe in love or any kind of happiness. Lacking a better alternative, they take a trip to Berlin to perform in their own erotic-trash show. But in Berlin, trouble only begins. Styled images of lost souls straying through the night and their humide debaucheries transport us into an universe of the abject where all moral limits are eliminated by the character’s insatiable bulimia.

The film tells the story of six mental cases, trying to get rid of society's norms and values by kidnapping Gerard van Dongen, a well-known TV host. During an improvised TV show, the terrorists confront this Van Dongen with their darkest thoughts and emotions, resulting in violent excesses and extreme sexual behavior.

Raina embarks on an affair with the tortured Nick. The compulsion towards excessive behaviour forms the nexus of their relationship. Isabelle is bound up in a lifeless marriage. The two women meet in a church. Their physical contact begins as a caress but ends in a fit of aggression.

Circus clown Jonathan loses his job and meets the desperate hooker Olga, trapped in an aggressive environment. The pair spend the night together in a hotel room, where they look back melancholically on their lives, as well as on the changes in Europe over the past twenty years. After a confrontation with Olga's pimps, the couple is introduced to the dark side of the new Europe.

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Gonneke returns to her parental home after years, only to find out she has been replaced by a new daughter, Cindy. A clown offers unexpected help.

Eva auditions for a role in an obscure art-house film. An anonymous, masked director creates an intimidating atmosphere. He dominates and humiliates Eva, forcing her into prostitution. She sleeps with a Jewish film producer named Josh. When he refuses to help her financially, Eva blackmails him by threatening to tell his wife that they slept together. Back on the film set, Eva's heading towards her own downfall. It's just a matter of time before her individuality and emotions are eliminated for 'the sake of art'.

Last Performance, the fifth feature film from award-winning European director Edwin Brienen, is set in the tumultuous New York theater world. Julia, a European actress who relocated to New York to try and make the big time, stars in an avant-garde theatre play, directed by the eccentric Magda. Inspired by obsessive philosophers such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and LaVey - "Forget the weak, the virtuous ones and the compassionate ones" - Magda explores the dark side of life. Julia's co-star, herein, is Cooper who has an abusive relationship with the sexually frustrated Tom. Tom, unable to accept his homosexuality, in turn exploits Julia for his own sexual adventures. Cooper, enraged by jealousy, sets out for revenge and his actions, herein, trigger an inexorable wave of disintegration and misery. Soon, fact and fiction become indistinguishable as Julia too becomes the author of her own demise.

A woman is trapped in her own nightmare, in which she is raped by a masked stranger and then locked up in the castle of a degenerate family who want to torture her. The horrible nightmare leaves the young woman with no way out, and she begins to go mad.

Revision, a drama/horror film written and directed by Edwin Brienen, is set in a futuristic world, where terrorist attacks rule daily life, forced chip implantation is commonplace and government control is routinely exerted through manipulation of the media. Traci (Eva Dorrepaal), an ex-model, feels lost and confused. Whereas she once believed in God, she now tries desperately to fill the void caused by her lack of faith. Her husband, Charlie (Clayton Nemrow), persuades her to surrender to the ultimate act of evil. Soon, however, reality and fantasy become intertwined in an indecipherable web of hallucinations and mental chaos.

Ulli is a lonely soul. He doesn't have many friends. He spends his days at work, as a programmer in an office. At the weekend, he reads a lot or watches TV.

A short film that shows a cruising excursion between two men, and turns the act of exploration and interconnection into a choreography of lust, rejection and intimacy.

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