New Shoes

A single play in the ‘One Night Stand’ series

New Shoes is a modern fairytale about ordinary feelings and extraordinary events. Aafke and Thalia are both 30 years old when they meet each other in a shoe store. They go back to the store after having accidentally left the shop with each other’s new shoes. They spontaneously decide to trade lives with each other for 24 hours. But is the grass really greener on the other side?

ORIGINAL TITLE

Nieuwe Schoenen

RELEASE YEAR

2004

GENRE

Modern fairytale

LANGUAGE

Dutch

DIRECTOR

Saskia Diesing

WRITER

Manon Mulckhuyse

CAST

Hadewych Minis, Micky Hoogendijk, Boris Saran

CO-PRO

NPS (NL), VARA (NL), VPRO (NL)

FINANCIERS

Netherlands Film Fund, Dutch Cultural Media Fund, CoBO Fund (NL)

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

Netherlands Film Festival