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Truly Naked
Truly Naked
Directed by	Muriel d'Ansembourg
Written by	Muriel d'Ansembourg
Produced by	Isabella Depeweg; Els Vandevorst;
Starring	Caolán O'Gorman; Andrew Howard; Alessa Savage; Juliet Aubrey; Safiya Benaddi; Lyndsey Marshal;
Cinematography	Myrthe Mosterman
Edited by	Emiel Nuninga
Music by	Evgueni Galperine; Sacha Galperine;
Production; companies	Isabella Films; Prime Time; Cinémadefacto;
Distributed by	Capelight Pictures (United States & Germany); AX1 Entertainment (United Kingdom); Cinobo (Greece and Poland); Njuta Films (Scandinavia); Gluon Media (Latin America);
Release date	February 16, 2026 (Berlin International Film Festival);
Running time	102 minutes
Countries	Netherlands; Belgium; France; United Kingdom;
Language	English

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Instructions · What links here · Truly Naked (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 10 hours ago by Jonastav89 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 59 minutes ago by Jonastav89

Comment: In preparing this draft, I disclose that AI assistance was used as follows: I did not use an AI chatbot, but I edited a pre-existing draft for this film, and I am not sure if the previous editor used it. Jonastav89 (talk) 21:54, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Truly Naked is a 2019 internationally co-produced drama film, directed and written by Muriel d'Ansembourg in her directorial debut.

Summary

Alec an introverted teenager, heavily exposed to father Dylan's pornographic filming exploits, steps out from behind the camera when Nina his classmate challenges him to embrace real connection.^[1]

Cast

Caolán O'Gorman as Alec
Andrew Howard as Dylan
Alessa Savage as Lizzie
Juliet Aubrey as Mrs. Bennett
Safiya Benaddi as Nina
Lyndsey Marshal as Julia
Helena Braithwaite as Rose
Kate Kennedy as Cecile
Hana Hrzic as Amy
Cameron James-King as Jamie
Buddy Skelton as Aidan
Dave MacRae as Maths teacher

Production

Muriel d'Ansembourg was determined to work with someone from the adult entertainment industry on this project. This is where adult actress Alessa Savage came aboard as an actress and consultant. d'Ansembourg and Savage had previously worked together on the Golden Calf-winning short film Fuck-a-Fan, about a superfan who gets a chance to meet his favorite adult actress.^[2]

Awards

The film premiered on 16 February 2026 at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3] The film also played in the Dutch Focus competition at Movies That Matter in The Hague^[4] and was shown at the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca,^[5] where it won an award for Best Performance for its entire cast.^[6]

The film swept the Golden Calves, the Dutch national film awards, at the Netherlands Film Festival, winning six awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Production Design.^[7]^[8] While receiving her first Golden Calf of the evening, d'Ansembourg remarked in her speech how she was in the bathroom at the Netherlands Film Festival and overheard two women talking about how much they hated the film, but then later one said, "But my mom loved the film."^[9]^[10]

External links

Truly Naked at IMDb

References

[1] ttps://see-nl.com/artikel/20240131-truly-naked

[2] ttps://cineville.nl/en-GB/magazine/d-ansembourg-savage-truly-naked

[3] ttps://www.berlinale.de/en/2026/programme/202602884.html

[4] ttps://moviesthatmatter.nl/en/magazine/dutch-focus-competition-announced/

[5] ttps://www.see-nl.com/artikel/20260527-dutch-cinema-in-the-spotlight-at-transilvania-iff

[6] ttps://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/492694/

[7] ttps://nos.nl/artikel/2633459-dramafilm-truly-naked-en-serie-basta-grote-winnaars-gouden-kalveren

[8] ttps://www.filmfestival.nl/en/news/golden-calves-winners-2026-announced-for-the-netherlands-film-festival

[9] ttps://www.telegraaf.nl/entertainment/film-truly-naked-en-serie-basta-grote-winnaars-bij-gouden-kalf-uitreiking/162519236.html

[10] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYqx0llIPI

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