Donkey Days

Rosanne Pel
2025

FILM INFO

Sisters Anna and Charlotte have always fought for their mother’s attention. As old wounds reopen and suck them back to their family home, they unravel mesmerizing mysteries, including anonymous ashes and their mother’s love for a donkey. Will they come to terms with each other?

Original title
Donkey Days
Country
Netherlands, Germany
Year
2025
Duration
107’
Color / Black&White
Color
Form
Fiction

DIRECTOR

Rosanne Pel

Rosanne Pel studied at the Utrecht School of Arts where she received her bachelor for directing and scenario fiction in 2011. In 2015 she received her master’s degree at the Netherlands Film Academy. Her debut film LIGHT AS FEATHERS premiered in TIFF’s Discovery program in 2018. The film received several awards like best feature film and best scenario in Cinemajove International Film Festival, the jury prize at Brussel International Film Festival, Dutch Film Critics Award and best actor at Premiers Plans D’Angers in 2019.

Filmography

Light as Feathers (2018)

team

Director
Rosanne Pel
Screenplay
Rosanne Pel
Camera
Aafke Beernink
Cast
Jil Krammer, Susanne Wolff
Music
Ella van der Woude
Editing
Xander Nijsten
Producer
Floor Onrust, Verena Gräfe-Höft, Lisa Herbers
Production
Family Affair Films
World sales company
Totem Films