About That Life (film)

About That Life
Film poster
DutchDe Libi
Directed byShady El-Hamus
Written by
  • Shady El-Hamus
  • Jeroen Scholten van Aschat
Starring
CinematographyStephan Polman
Edited byPatrick Schonewille
Music by
  • Terence Dunn
  • Ko Zandvliet
Distributed byGusto Entertainment
Release date
  • 13 June 2019 (2019-06-13)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch
Box office$477,162[1][2]

About That Life (Dutch: De Libi) is a 2019 Dutch comedy-drama film directed by Shady El-Hamus (in his directorial debut)[3] who co-wrote with Jeroen Scholten van Aschat.[4][5] In July 2019, it was shortlisted as one of the nine films in contention to be the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not selected.[6]

Cast

Production

In September 2018, it was announced that rapper Hef, Bilal Wahib and Daniel Kolf were added to the cast.[3] Principal photography took place in the summer of 2018.

References

  1. ^ "De Libi (2019)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  2. ^ "De Libi (2019)". The Numbers. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Rapper Hef en Bilal Wahib in nieuwe film De Libi" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 8 September 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Shady El-Hamus over De libi". filmkrant. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  5. ^ "'Alles moest groots' voor het debuut van filmmaker Shady El-Hamus". parool. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  6. ^ "International Feature Film Academy Entry". Eye International. Retrieved 14 July 2019.


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