RAYMOND GRIMBERGEN
director film & tv | camjo | screenwriter | editor

Lioness (2023)
 
Starring: ALYSSA VAN OMMEREN, APOLLONIA STERCKX, YIP ANDJAR, MANOU JUE CARDOSO, JAY KARIM-JONKER
 
Lioness is a sporty coming-of-age teen movie about Rosi, a 15 year old girl from Suriname that has difficulties to adapt to her new situation, when she is moving with her family to the Netherlands. The local football club looks like a solution for this talented girl.

Lioness was released in April 2023 in 100+ theatres in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Later, it hit cinemas in Suriname, Aruba and Curaçao. In April 2025, the film will be released in German cinemas nationwide.

Directed by: Raymond Grimbergen
Screenplay by: Jeroen Margry
DOP: Willem Helwig
Editor: Boelie Vis
Produced by: Alain de Levita, Paula van der Oest, Mark van Eeuwen, Matthijs van Heijningen, Robert Schinkel, Luc Schinkel
Production company: Levitate FIlm in coproduction with the Media Brothers & NTR