Content 2011 February by Flanders Image

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by Koen Mortier

Sam works as a security agent in a shopping mall. On a normal day, a bomb explodes. He tries to save the victims, until something terrible happens. He runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman’s voice makes him raise his head. She’s one of the victims Sam saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. Thereafter Sam runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even the confrontation with the wrongdoer isn’t that straightforward as he thought it would be. Sam finds out that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike. WITH: SAM LOUWYCK, TITUS DE VOOGDT, BARBARA CALLEWAERT, JAN HAMMENECKER / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): EPIDEMIC / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 88’ / int’l sales: Reel Suspects m@reelsuspects.com

IFFR: 1 February, 19.30, Luxor / 2 February, 18.30, Pathé 7 / 3 February, 16.30, Lantaren Venster 5 / 5 February, 14.15, Lantaren Venster 5 EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.

Bullhead

by Michaël R. Roskam

Young cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from his past set in motion a chain of events with far-reaching consequences. WITH: MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, JEROEN PERCEVAL, BARBARA SARAFIAN, JEANNE DANDOY / Sam Louwyck / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SAVAGE FILM / LANGUAGE: DUTCH AND FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 126’ / INT’L SALES: Celluloid Dreams info@celluloid-dreams.com

Berlinale: 13 February, 17.00, International / 14 February, 20.15, CineStar 3 / 17 February, 19.30, International / 18 February, 14.00, CinemaxX 7 / 19 February, 14.00, International EFM: 14 February (hour and venue: TBC)

Grande Hotel

by Lotte Stoops

Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique. In one of the grandest hotels in the world, born of and to luxury, today you enter ‘at your own risk’. More than 2500 people live there without water or electricity. They have taken possession of the building and manipulated not only the stones but also the dreams. A journey through present and past of a city in a city; a story about colonial megalomania, revolutionary vanity and feeling at home. DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS / LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 67’ / SALES INFO: Serendipity Films ellen@serendipityfilms.be

27 January, 19.30, Cinerama 2 / 29 January, 16.30, Pathé 4 / 30 January, 15.45, Pathé 5 / 4 February, 17.00, Cinerama 1

Pulsar

by Alex Stockman

Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical courier. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architecture firm. Shortly after her departure, Sam’s computer is hacked. A series of rather dodgy IT-guys fail to protect his wireless network. When the mysterious hacker seems to be intentionally screwing up Samuel’s life and his relationship with Mireille, paranoia kicks in. Sam starts to suspect his neighbours and gets obsessed with WiFi rays... WITH: MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, TINE VAN DEN WYNGAERT, SIEN EGGERS, NICO STURM, VINCENT LECUYER, GORDON WILSON / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): CORRIDOR / LANGUAGE: Dutch, French and English / RUNNING TIME: 94’ / SALES INFO: Corridor corridor@skynet.be

28 January, 16.15, Pathé 6 / 29 January, 22.30, Cinerama 6 / 30 January, 14.45, De Doelen Willem Burger Zaal / 3 February, 19.45, De Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal

Flanders Shorts After Empire

by Herman Asselberghs

Where were you on the Fifteenth February Day of the Year Three of the New Time? That Saturday, history happened. History happened and we forgot about it... EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 52’ / SALES INFO: AUGUSTE ORTS marie@augusteorts.be

27 January, 19.45, Lantaren Venster 1 / 28 January, 12.00, Lantaren Venster 2

Back by 6

by Peter Connelly

A film that brings us through a day’s journey of two young men who have to be ‘back by 6’. WITH: SIMON TURNER, TIBO VANDENBORRE / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MAARJA / LANGUAGE: DUTCH AND ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 28’ / SALES INFO: Maarja maarja@coditel.net

15 February, 16.00, CinemaxX 5 / 16 Feb, 17.45, Colosseum 1 / 17 February, 22.00, CinemaxX 3

Because We Are Visual by Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes The Internet and its online communities intend to bring people closer together and to connect them. Yet, surprisingly, it seems that the virtual world confronts these so-called vloggers more than ever with their own loneliness. This documentary allows the viewer to discover this contemporary phenomenon and focuses on the experience of the body within this virtual space. It creates a unique poetic realm in which thoughts, fears, desires and worries, shared via the webcam, merge together. DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): KASK / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 47’12’’/ SALES INFO: Flanders Image flandersimage@vaf.be

31 January, 22.00, Your Space

Dear Steve by Herman Asselberghs Dear Steve is a lyrical portrait of the laptop, the pedestrian icon of ‘the new spirit of capitalism’. We can witness the ruthless, smooth dismantling of a brand-new MacBook Pro, and the act of literally turning inside-out the digital work station that controls our daily lives. Don’t try this at home? EXPERIMENTAL / WITH: STAN WANNET / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 45’ / SALES INFO: AUGUSTE ORTS marie@augusteorts.be

31 January, 18.30, Your Space

Land of the Heroes by Sahim Omar Kalifa Iraq 1988. In a land devastated by war, Dileer (10) and his sister want to watch cartoons on television, but that seems to be more difficult than expected. WITH: AHMED NISRET, ZANA GANDI, ADLA BAPIR, NAIMA ABDO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A TEAM PRODUCTIONS / LANGUAGE: KURDIC AND ARABIC / RUNNING TIME: 17’ / SALES INFO: a team productions hendrik@ateamproductions.be

13 February, 16.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2 / 14 February, 15.30, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain / 20 February, 11.30, CinemaxX 3

Lobi (Yesterday/Tomorrow) by Mekhar Azari, Eric Biansueki, Matthias De Groof, Rek Kandol, Pierre Kigoma, Amourabinto Lukoji, Androa Mindre, Kristin Rogghe, Tocha Zaventen Lobi, meaning both ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ in Lingala, is an experimental visual essay on the 50th anniversary of Congo’s Independence. Nine young filmmakers of Congolese and Belgian origine collaborated in Kinshasa to create this super8 film, expressing nine different views that merge in a quest for a common language to broach the past, conceive the present and imagine the future. EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): MATTHIAS DE GROOF, KRISTIN ROGGHE / LANGUAGE: FRENCH, DUTCH AND ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 38’ / SALES INFO: matthias de groof and kristin Rogghe matthias_degroof@yahoo.com and kristinrogghe@yahoo.com

1 February, 11.30, Lantaren Venster 6 / 2 February, 19.45, Lantaren Venster 3

Na Wewe by Ivan Goldschmidt 1994. There is civil war in Burundi, a small country in Central Africa, near Rwanda. A confrontation close to genocide starts from a rebellion between the Hutu ethnic group and a national Tutsi army. WITH: RENAUD RUTTEN, FLORIS KUBWIMANA, ISMAËL KAPOSHO, ISSA RUGENDO / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A PRIVATE VIEW / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 19’ / INT’L SALES: Premium Films jcm@premium-films.com

Oh by Anouk De Clercq Oh seeks to reanimate the ambitious, utopian spirit of renegade architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799). True to the spirit of the utopian architectural tradition Boullée is part of, he is probably best remembered today for one unrealized project in particular: the design for a gigantic sphereshaped shrine dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern science, Isaac Newton. EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: none / RUNNING TIME: 8’20’’ / SALES INFO: auguste orts marie@augusteorts.be

28 January, 19.45, Lantaren Venster 3 / 29 January, 13.45, Lantaren Venster 3

Stardust by Nicolas Provost Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas and uses the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital to turn everyday life into an exciting crime story. experimental / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NICOLAS PROVOST / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 20’ / SALES INFO: flanders image flandersimage@vaf.be

IFFR: 27 January, 15.45, Lantaren Venster 1 / 28 January, 14.00, Lantaren Venster 2

Storyteller

by Nicolas Provost

Nicolas Provost recomposes the Las Vegas strip into a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NICOLAS PROVOST / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 7’30’’ / SALES INFO: flanders image flandersimage@vaf.be

Think About Wood, Think About Metal by Manon de Boer Poetic portrait of Robyn Schulkowsky, who has worked with John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Zorn and Christian Wolff. Her percussion improvisations occupy a large part in the film. Experimental / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 45’ / SALES INFO: auguste orts marie@augusteorts.be

29 January, 18.00, Lantaren Venster 4 / 30 January, 22.30, Lantaren Venster 1

Co-productions An Angel in Doel

by Tom Fassaert

Near the port of Antwerp lies the village of Doel. A village that has to disappear. While Doel is slowly dying, the elderly Emilienne attempts to keep up a pretence of normality. At her kitchen table village life seems to continue like nothing has changed. But when her close friends leave, the village priest dies and demolition begins, the downfall seems inevitable. Will she ultimately also be forced to let go? DOCUMENTARY / CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): CinéTé / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 72’ / SALES INFO: cinété info@cinete.be

15 February, 20.00, Arsenal / 17 February, 19.30, CinemaxX4 / 18 February, 16.30, CineStar 8 / 19 February, 14.00, Delphi-Filmpalast

Brownian Movement

by Nanouk Leopold

A couple is facing crisis after the woman has taken some of her male patients to a rented appartment. WITH: SANDRA HÜLLER, DRAGAN BAKEMA / CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS / RUNNING TIME: 102’ / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND FRENCH / INT’L SALES: Films distribution info@filmsdistribution.com

Berlinale: 15 February, 21.30, Delphi-Filmpalast / 17 February, 15.00, Arsenal / 18 February, 19.15, CineStar 8 / 20 February,11.00, CineStar 8 EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.

A Cat in Paris by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol Dino is a cat with a secret double-life: he spends his days with Zoé, the daughter of an inspector, but at night he’s on the road with Nico who is an exceptional burglar. Dino always enters the houses first. Nico is very supple and his exceptional sense of balance makes him as good a climber as Dino the cat. Zoé’s mother Jeanne is a police inspector. Her husband was murdered by Victor Costa, a psychopathic gangster. While Zoé’s mother investigates the burglaries, Zoé is kidnapped by a gangster. ANIMATION / co-production (FLANDERS): LUNANIME / LANGUAGE: Several Language versions / RUNNING TIME: 70’ / INT’L SALES: Films distribution info@filmsdistribution.com

Berlinale: 13 February, 12.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 / 14 February, 10.00, Filmtheater am Fiedrichshain / 16 February, 16.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2 / 18 February, 12.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.

Illegal

by Olivier Masset-Depasse

Tania is a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested. Mother and son are separated and Tania is placed in a detention centre. She will do anything to be reunited with her son but won’t manage to avoid threats of deportation. WITH: Anne Coessens, Esse Lawson, Gabriela Perez, Christelle Cornil / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: FRENCH, RUSSIAN / Running time: 90’ / Int’L SALES: Films Distribution info@filmsdistribution.com

screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.

Screening at EFM

Luke and Lucy & The Texas Rangers by Mark Mertens and Wim Bien Dark City, Texas: the evil and mysterious Jim Parasite has concocted a plan to become the biggest and most powerful man in the world. He captures the Texas Rangers, but one of them manages to escape and calls upon Luke and Lucy for help. Together with their aunt and their two best friends, Luke and Lucy travel to Texas to become the new Texas Rangers, determined to put Parasite and his gang where they belong: in jail. ANIMATION / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SKYLINE ENTERTAINMENT / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 85’ / INT’L SALES: Delphis Films distribution@delphisfilms.com 12 February, 17.30, CinemaxX 17 / 14 February, 14.30, CinemaxX 19

Madly In Love

by Hilde Van Mieghem

Teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and big sister Michelle work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a bit lost. The question remains whether or not their male counterparts can match them. WITH: Veerle Dobbelaere, Wine Dierickx, Marie Vinck, Koen De Bouw, Koen De Graeve, Kevin Janssens / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): Caviar / LANGUAGE: Dutch / Running time: 100’ / SALES INFO: Caviar ivy.vanhaecke@caviarcontent.com

EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.

Oxygen

by Hans Van Nuffel

Tom and his brother are bright young men who suffer from an illness that is slowly destroying their lungs. Tom struggles with his short life-expectancy and hangs out with petty criminals. Enter his hospital neighbor Xavier who suffers from the same illness but behaves like an athlete and infuses Tom with optimism. Tom enjoys his new friend and finds love with quirky quarantine girl Eline. But when his brother dies, Tom is devastated. He hides with his criminal friends and breaks away from Xavier and Eline. Much later, Tom and Xavier meet up again when they are up for a lung transplant. Slowly, their friendship rekindles... WITH: Stef Aerts, Wouter Hendrickx, Marie Vinck, Anemone Valcke, Rik Verheye / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A PRIVATE VIEW / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 98’ / INT’L SALES: Premium Films jcm@premium-films.com

EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.

Turquaze

by Kadir Balci

Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent, Belgium. Their mother remains in Istanbul. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfil his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Sarah, Timur’s girlfriend, thinks it’s cool, until she realises how little he seems to notice her now… WITH: BURAK BALCI, CHARLOTTE VANDERMEERSCH, NIHAT ALPTUG ALTINKAYA, TILBE SARAN, Hilal Sönmez / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): MENUET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, TURKISH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ / INT’L SALES: Delphis Films distribution@delphisfilms.com 13 February, 09.15, CinemaxX 18 / 15 February, 11.00, CinemaxX 17

COMING SOON * indicated running times, sales info, etc. are tentative

Blue Bird by Gust Van den Berghe Two boys, Mytyl and Tytyl, and their search for a mysterious blue bird, which they manage to capture after a long journey through the weirdest of worlds and experiences. And then lose. With: tbc / Producer (Flanders): Minds Meet / Language: Tamberma (Togo) / Running Time: 85’ / Sales info: Minds Meet info@mindsmeet.be

Germaine

by Frank Van Mechelen

1971. Eighteen-year-old Germaine lives with her parents and grandfather in a small house in Balen. Working in a supermarket, she listens to pop music and dreams of a better life when the workers at the town factory, including her father, decide to go on strike. Although not supported by the unions, the workers refuse to give in and hold out for three months. It changes their lives forever. Based on a true story. WITH: STANNY CRETS, EVELIEN BOSMANS, TINY BERTELS, MICHEL VAN DOUSSELAERE, BART HOLLANDERS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SKYLINE ENTERTAINMENT / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / SALES INFO: Skyline Entertainment info@tvskyline.com

Hasta la vista!

by Geoffrey Enthoven

Three guys in their twenties love wine and women. Wine they have savoured abundantly, but they have never had a woman. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to get laid there. Nothing will stop them. Not even their handicaps: one is blind, the other is confined to a wheelchair and the third is completely paralysed… WITH: ROBRECHT VANDEN THOREN, GILLES DE SCHRYVER, TOM AUDENAERT, ISABELLE DE HERTOGH, Karlijn Sileghem / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FOBIC FILMS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, FRENCH, SPANISH / RUNNING TIME: 120’ / SALES INFO: Fobic Films info@fobicfilms.com

Madonna’s Pig

by Frank Van Passel

A salesman of a computerized pig fertilization machine gets stuck in Madonna, an isolated and scenic village paralyzed by a conflict about the construction of a new road. A local school teacher, dead soldiers and an explosive Madonna statue confront him with a new choice: choosing love or a safe, empty existence full of useless goals such as selling a mechanic gigolo-pig. WITH: WINE DIERICKX, WIM OPBROUCK, MARIJKE PINOY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): CAVIAR / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: TBC / SALES INFO: Caviar marie.van.innis@caviarcontent.com

Mixed Kebab

by Guy Lee Thys

Belgian-Turkish Ibrahim chooses to live with his lover Kevin over marrying his young cousin Elif. But the kid brother and neo-jihadist Furkan will try to avenge the family’s honor. WITH: CEM AKKANAT, KARLIJN SILEGHEM, GAMZE TAZIM, MATTIAS VAN DE VIJVER / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FACT & FICTION / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, TURKISH, ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ / SALES INFO: Fact & Fiction fact.fiction.bvba@telenet.be

Northsea, Texas

(working title) by Bavo Defurne

A down-at-heel coastal village in the 70s. A lonely kid, Pim brightens up his pitiful life with dreams of princesses and beauty queens. As a teenager his dreams turn to Gino, the rugged boy next door, his motorcycling hero. But Gino isn’t so much of a dreamer. Or is he? WITH: EVA VANDER GUCHT, KATELIJNE DAMEN, LUK WYNS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): INDEED FILMS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ / SALES INFO: Indeed Films yves@indeedfilms.be

Portable Life

by Fleur Boonman

A young naive girl becomes a young woman through seemingly chance encounters. This is the story of her journey (a real and an inner one), through parallel worlds and different times, where certain people are inextricably linked with each other. WITH: ELLA-JUNE HENRARD, RUTGER HAUER, SAM LOUWYCK / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SAVAGE FILM / LANGUAGE: Dutch, English and French / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / SALES INFO: Savage Film bart@savagefilm.be

Quixote’s Island

by Didier Volckaert

San runs away from school with Quixote, an odd character, who takes him on an excentric trip to adulthood. San balances on the thin line between reality and imagination untill something serious that happens at school pulls him back. WITH: TIEMEN VAN HAVER, JEROEN WILLEMS, ELINE KUPPENS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): VIVI FILM / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / SALES INFO: Vivi Film info@vivifilm.be

Swooni

by Kaat Beels

Six lives crossing each other over a period of 24 hours in a hotel, confronting the most basic human needs with the so-called ‘quality problems’ of Western society. In order to feel complete, we must mean something to someone else. And that is easier said than done. WITH: GEERT VAN RAMPELBERG, VIVIANE DE MUYNCK, SARA DE ROO, NATALI BROODS, ISSAKA SAWADOGO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS FILM & TV DRAMA / LANGUAGE: DUTCH AND FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / SALES INFO: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama drama.belgium@eyeworks.tv

Welcome Home by Tom Heene Five Young partying Eurocrats in a posh Lancia play a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a young woman on a bike. When things threaten to get out of hand, one of them starts to feel remorse. With: Michael Sladden, Carole Weyers, Manah Depauw, Felipe Mafasoli / Producer (Flanders): Minds Meet / Language: Dutch / Running time: 75’ / Sales info: Minds Meet info@mindsmeet.be