Even Cowboys Get To Cry

Sven and Gijs are best mates. They do absolutely everything together, whether going clubbing or mucking about or simply pondering life.

Their intimacy is such that one of them can even stroll blithely into a room where the other is having sex. In ten years’ time they plan to have travelled the length and breadth of South America on motorbikes.
But all at once everything changes: Sven gets involved in a fight one night, Gijs tries to intervene and sustains a blow to the head which sends him into a coma. There’s no knowing if he’ll pull through and their friendship is tested to the limits.

Even Cowboys Get to Cry is a graduation film from the Netherlands Film Academy and was selected for several Film Festivals worldwide, amongst others the prestigious Berlinale and South by Southwest in Austin.

Details

  • Length: 20' min
  • Release: 2013, july
  • Genre: drama
  • Festivaldistribution: Some Shorts
  • Production Company: The Netherlands Filmacademy

Cast

  • Ko Zandvliet
  • Jonas Smulders

Crew

  • Director: Mees Peijnenburg
  • Screenwriter: Merinde Verbeek
  • D.O.P.: Stephan Polman
  • Production design: Tim Balk l Nelli Bodt
  • Costumedesgin: Maxa van Panhuis l Vita Mees
  • Make-up & Hair: Elsa Helwig
  • First A.D.: Steven Rubinstein Malamud
  • Line Producer: Paul Overste l Lotte Bronshoff
  • Sound: Dennis Allink
  • Sound Design: Taco Drijfhout
  • Editor: Imre Reutelingsperger
  • Composer: Robin Assen
  • Producer: Layla Meijman
Even Cowboys Get To Cry

Berlinale

Generation
2014

SXSW

Competition
2014

Go Short

Youth Award
2014

Brussels Short Film Festival

Best International Student Film
2014

Premier Plans Film Festival

Audience Award
2015

Stills