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selecTeD For cAnnes 2011 P blue birD by Gust Van Den berGhe 18 May, 9.00, Théâtre Croisette / 18 May, 17.00, Théâtre Croisette / 19 May, 11.30, Arcades 1 Market screenings*: 12 May, 16.00, Lerins 2 / 14 May, 14.00, Rivièra 1 / 16 May, 10.00, Rivièra 1 (*buyers only, no press)

one morning, Bafiokadié and his sister Téné, two African children, leave their village. The only thing on their mind is to find their lost blue bird before the day is over. But they will find much more along their way: they encounter their deceased grandparents, they fight the soul of the forest and learn from the chief of Pleasure. everyone tells them a story about life and death. At the end of their long journey, the brother and sister enter the Kingdom of the Future and meet some yet-to-be born children. Delighted with this discovery, they eventually return home. Blue Bird is a story about how one day in a child’s life can change its world. For as we lose something we gain something.

WITH: BAFioKADié PoTeY, Téné PoTeY / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MinDs MeeT / LANGUAGe: TAMBerMA, FrencH / RUNNING TIMe: 86’ / INT’L SALeS: coProDUcTion oFFice bureau@coproductionoffice.eu  selected for the Directors’ Fortnight

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BeNTO MONOGATARI (LUNCHBOX STORY) by pieter DirKx

19 May, 14.30, Palais (Buñuel) Yvonne tries to put some new life into her failed marriage by delving into the world of Japanese pop culture. every morning, she prepares a cute Japanes lunchbox (Bento) for her husband, Frank, who works in a waste collection center. Frank is more interested in his handsome, young, male colleague and secretly throws his lunchbox away before anyone sees it.

WITH: BeA DUcHATeAU, DirK lAVrYsen, BrAM VAn oUTrYVe, sAe noZAWA / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): sinT-lUKAs / LANGUAGe: DUTcH, JAPAnese AnD englisH / RUNNING TIMe: 27’ / SALeS INFO: FlAnDers iMAge flandersimage@vaf.be  selected for the cinéfondation competition

SWIMSUIT 46 by wannes Destoop 21 May, 11.00, Palais (Debussy) / 21 May, 14.30, Palais (Buñuel) Please check daily schedules P

chantal, a chubby girl of 12, is having a hard time finding her way through life. she doesn’t have a lot of friends, and at home she can only turn to her stepfather for support as she doesn’t get along with her mother or stepbrother. only in the local pool, where she is training intensively for an upcoming swimming competition, does she truly feel at home. But when she needs a new pair of goggles, things don’t go as smoothly as planned and she does everything to get hold of them.

WITH: JAnis VercAeMPsT, WiM oPBroUcK, lies PAUWels, KenneTH VAnBAeDen, JoHAn HelDenBergH / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): KAsK / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 15’ / SALeS INFO: FlAnDers iMAge flandersimage@vaf.be  selected for official competition (short)

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16 May, 20.00, Gray 5 sam works as a security agent in a shopping mall. on an ordinary 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 / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): ePiDeMic / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 88’ / INT’L SALeS: reel sUsPecTs m@reelsuspects.com P

BULLHeAD by Michaël r. rosKaM

13 May, 9.30, Arcades 2 / 15 May, 17.30, Arcades 1 / 17 May, 15.30, Arcades 3 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 P

OXYGeN by hans Van nuffel

18 May, 14.00, Lerins 2. Please check daily schedules 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 neighbour 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 P

PULSAR by alex stocKMan

15 May, 20.30, Arcades 3 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 / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): corriDor / LANGUAGe: DUTcH, FrencH AnD englisH / RUNNING TIMe: 94’ / INT’L SALeS: insoMniA

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SAMMY’S ADVeNTUReS – eSCAPe FROM PARADISe (working title) ben stassen

7‘30‘‘ Promoreel: 11 May, 11.30, Arcades 1 / 11 May, 12.30, Arcades 1 While helping a dozen or so hatchlings into the sea, sammy and ray are captured by poachers.

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SHARKWISe by lieVen Debrauwer

12 May, 16.00, Palais 1 Sharkwise tells the compelling story of Marc sluszny’s quest for the true face of the great White shark. Fascinating images and answers take you on a unique expedition throughout egypt, Mozambique and south Africa. This film is also the tale of an enthralling human adventure, a mental journey that lets the main character explore his boundaries and live his dreams.

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PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): griD FilM / LANGUAGe: englisH / RUNNING TIMe: 86’ / INT’L SALeS: HoriZon MoTion PicTUres marc.sluszny@hotmail.com

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13 May, 16.00, Rivièra 1 / 15 May, 9.30, Lerins 1. Please check daily schedules Dino is a cat with a secret double-life: he spends his days with Zoé, the daughter of an inspector,

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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.

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12 May, 18.00, Arcades 2 / 14 May, 15.30, Star 3. Please check daily schedules A magic crystal makes it possible for santa to multiply his efforts to distribute presents to children.

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santa’s evil twin brother Basil has a diabolic plan. He will steal the crystal and gain control over children’s minds. But thanks to the courage of a human boy, Yotan, the crystal – and christmas – is saved.

ANIMATION / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): sKYline enTerTAinMenT / LANGUAGe: englisH / RUNNING TIMe: 74’ / SALeS INFO: TF1 inTernATionAl sales@tf1.fr

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ALFIe THe LITTLe WeReWOLF by JoraM lürsen little Alfie has no idea what is happening to him when, on the night of his 7th birthday, he changes into a white, fluffy animal: a little werewolf. When the daylight starts to show he goes back home tired and wakes up as a little boy. Timmie thinks it’s really cool and gives Alfie the name ‘Alfie the little werewolf’. But the sensitive Alfie doesn’t want to be a werewolf.

WITH: ole Kroes, MAAs BronKHUYZen, lUPA rAnTi, reMKo VriJDAg, KiM VAn KooTen / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): ciné cri De coeUr / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ / eTA: WinTer 2011 / SALeS INFO: ciné cri De coeUr jacqueline@cridecoeur.be

THe BAG OF FLOUR by KhaDiJa leclère A story of a little Moroccan girl, sarah, who is taken by her father from a Belgian orphanage back into his family in Morocco, a country she knows nothing about and that she will have to make her own. From this moment on, sarah’s struggle will be to choose the life she wants and not the life that has been chosen for her.

WITH: HAFsiA HerZi, HiAM ABBAs, MeHDi DeHBi, sMAin FAiroUZe, FreDeric DUssenne,

VerA VAn Dooren / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): eYeWorKs FilM & TV DrAMA / LANGUAGe: FrencH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ / SALeS INFO: eYeWorKs FilM & TV DrAMA

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CODe 37 by JaKob VerbruGGen A well-known writer is assaulted in a porn cinema. He had an appointment there with rose, a young student working as a prostitute. Police investigator Hannah Maes and her team decide to go undercover in club sin city, a place for everyone shunning daylight and for girls who pick up their clients there. When they discover that the owner of both the porn cinema and sin city is rose’s uncle, the case becomes personal, particularly to Hannah, because she knows only too well the damage family secrets can cause…

WITH: Veerle BAeTens, MicHAËl PAs, MArc lAUWrYs, gilles De scHrYVer,

geerT VAn rAMPelBerg / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MenUeT / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 100’ / eTA: ocToBer 2011 / INT’L SALeS: DelPHis FilMs

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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’ / eTA: FAll 2011 /SALeS INFO: sKYline

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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 have their first sexual experience. 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 / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): FoBic FilMs / LANGUAGe: DUTcH, FrencH AnD sPAnisH / RUNNING TIMe: 115’ / eTA: sePTeMBer 2011 / SALeS INFO: FoBic FilMs info@fobicfilms.com

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THe INVADeR by nicolas proVost The story of an illegal African immigrant whose journey begins in Brussels as he searches, like many other immigrants, for a better place in the world. Through his confrontation with a harsh society, he slowly but irreversibly starts to incarnate our worst fears and becomes the monster we have created.

WITH: issAKA sAWADogo, sTeFAniA roccA, serge riABoUKine / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): PriMe TiMe / LANGUAGe: FrencH / RUNNING TIMe: TBc / eTA: AUgUsT 2011 / SALeS INFO: PriMe TiMe primetime@scarlet.be

LAST WINTeR (working title) by John shanK Johan is 25 years old and lives alone on his farm. He works from early morning to late night, caring for his herd. But as winter covers the land, Johan loses that which gives meaning to his life. He refuses to face his farm’s financial problems. rather than facing loss, Johan is clinging onto something that cannot be held.

WITH: VincenT roTTiers, AnAis DeMoUsTier, Florence loireT cAille, MicHel sUBor / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): liMiTeD ADVenTUres / LANGUAGe: FrencH / RUNNING TIMe:

100’ / INT’L SALeS: le PAcTe 5 j.labadie@le-pacte.com

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lena, a chunky 16-year-old, feels uncomfortable at home and dreams of a house of her own and a cute boyfriend. However, boys only want to have her laid. When lena meets Daan, it is like a dream come true. she leaves her desperate mother and goes to live with him and his father. she has never felt this much at home. But soon she finds out that her new situation isn’t that perfect…

WITH: eMMA leVie, niels goMPerTs, Jeroen WilleMs, lisA sMiT / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): A PriVATe VieW / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ / INT’L SALeS: BAVAriA MeDiA bavaria-media@bavaria-film.de

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: KeVin JAnssens, Wine DiericKX, WiM oPBroUcK, MAriJKe PinoY / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): cAViAr / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: TBc / eTA: noVeMBer 2011 / SALeS INFO: cAViAr marie.van.innis@caviarcontent.com

MIXeD KeBAB by Guy lee thys Flanders/Turkey 2011. Flemish-Turkish ibrahim chooses to fall for young and handsome Kevin over marrying his cute but expensive Turkish cousin elif while kid brother Furkan converts to islamic fundamentalism.

WITH: ceM AKKAnAr, siMon VAn BUYTen, gAMZe TAZiM, lUKAs DeWolF,

KArliJn silegHeM / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): FAcT & FicTion / LANGUAGe: DUTcH, TUrKisH / RUNNING TIMe: 98’ / eTA: FAll 2011 / SALeS INFO: FAcT & FicTion fact.fiction.bvba@telenet.be

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MONKeY SANDWICH by wiM VanDeKeybus Wim Vandekeybus reflects on the lie that is theatre, on the relative boastfulness of leaders and how we are always searching for stories.

Monkey Sandwich is inspired by unforeseen events, sudden twists and a fragmentary narrative structure. not a million miles from a reference to urban legends, where, as in this story, the truth often evaporates into fantasy.

WITH: JerrY KillicK, cArlY WiJs, DAVis FreeMAn, gUY DerMUl, MAUro PAWloWsKi / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MonoDoT, UlTiMA VeZ / LANGUAGe: englisH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ / eTA: FAll 2011 / SALeS INFO: UlTiMA VeZ kristien@ultimavez.com

MONTANA by stephan streKer one night, on a bridge, Julien, a young man, sits alone. A few meters away, paramedics are carrying off a body wrapped in white plastic. We also follow the path of a young rebel named Pouga, who dreams of living the high life. even though they do not know each other Julien and Pouga are very much alike. They are unaware that their fates will inexorably cross paths.

WITH: VincenT roTTiers, reDA KATeB, oliVier goUrMeT / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS):

MinDs MeeT / LANGUAGe: FrencH / RUNNING TIMe: 100’ / SALeS INFO: MinDs MeeT info@mindsmeet.be

NORTHSeA, TeXAS by baVo Defurne A down-at-heel coastal village towards the end of the sixties. 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: Jelle FloriZoone, MATHiAs Vergels , 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 / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS):

sAVAge FilM / LANGUAGe: DUTcH, englisH AnD FrencH / RUNNING TIMe: 100’ / eTA: sUMMer 2011 / 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 until 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

SHe’S NOT CRYING, SHe’S SINGING by philippe De pierpont Watching over her father who is in a coma, 27-year-old laura finally dares to face their incestuous past. But life is unpredictable and laura’s desire for revenge causes painful memories to come to the surface. she has to face up to her own past. she ends up reconciled. not with her father, but with her childhood, herself and life.

WITH: eriKA sAinTe, MAriJKe PinoY, JeAn-FrAnÇois WolFF, JUles Werner / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): serenDiPiTY FilMs / LANGUAGe: FrencH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ / eTA: AUgUsT 2011 / SALeS INFO: serenDiPiTY FilMs ellen@serendipity.be

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A SMALL CHANCe by nicole Van KilsDoncK Kiek is scared because her father is going to war to help people. To make the chance smaller that something will happen to him, she is trying out many different things: she needs a dead dog and a dead mouse. Kiek doesn’t know anyone that has a dead dog, a dead mouse and a dead father.

That’s a small chance.

WITH: PiPPA Allen, JoHnnY De Mol, riFKA loDeiZen, lenY BreeDerVelD,

rUBen VAn Der Meer / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): A PriVATe VieW / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ /SALeS INFO: A PriVATe VieW dries@aprivateview.be

SONNY BOY by Maria peters sonny Boy is the true exceptional love story between two apparently ordinary people: rika, a typical Dutch mother of four and a coloured guy from surinam called Waldemar who’s also 17 years younger. Their love survives all the presumptions and obstructions of the sometimes cruel outside world, but finally is unable to cope with the brutal and devastating power of the war.

WITH: ricKY Koole, sergio HAsselBAinK / CO-PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MenUeT / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 120’ / SALeS INFO: MenUeT info@menuet.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’ / eTA: AUgUsT 2011 / SALeS INFO: eYeWorKs FilM & TV DrAMA drama.belgium@eyeworks.tv

WeLCOMe HOMe by toM heene coming home from a long journey lila encounters an iranian visiting Brussels for the first time since 40 years. The next moment she violently breaks up with her boyfriend. During a last encounter she has a brutal crash with a bunch of young eurocrats.

WITH: MAnAH DePAUW, MicHAel slADDen, cArole WeYers, FeliPe MAFAsoli / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MinDs MeeT / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 75’ /

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eTA: FAll 2011 / SALeS INFO: MinDs MeeT info@mindsmeet.be

in ProDUcTion eRASeD by patrice toye There is a place that does not exist. An attic in a hospital in Belgium where pregnant girls stay till they will give birth to their baby. And then they are transported to France. Their newborn babies are taken away from them and sold. However, one girl, Katja, 15 and 28 weeks pregnant, has decided that this won’t happen to her, nor to her beloved baby.

WITH: TBA / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): PriMe TiMe / LANGUAGe: DUTcH, englisH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’ / SALeS INFO: PriMe TiMe

primetime@scarlet.be

UNTIL FOReVeR by nic balthazar Based on the life of the Ms-patient Mario Verstraete who was not only instrumental in legalising euthanasia in Belgium… but was also the first to make use of that new law. This is the story of his best friend, and the girl who loved both of them. The story of a group of friends and family who stood by him. Till always.

WITH: Koen DegrAeVe, geerT VAn rAMPelBerg, loTTe PinoY, ViViAne De MUYncK / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): eYeWorKs FilM &

TV DrAMA / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 110’ / SALeS INFO: eYeWorKs FilM & TV DrAMA drama.belgium@eyeworks.tv

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in DeVeloPMenT ALLeZ eDDY! by Gert eMbrechts Freddy’s isolated life totally disrupts when the first supermarket opens its doors in the village. As an opening event the supermarket organises a cyclist race. The winner of the race will meet eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fierce opponent of the supermarket doesn’t want to hear anything about the race.

Freddy races nonetheless. By participating a new world opens up, not only for Freddy but also for the people around him.

WITH: PeTer VAn Den Begin, BArArA sArAFiAn, els DoTTerMAns, sTeFAAn DegAnD, Jelle cleYMAns, FrieDA PiTToors / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): ciné cri De coeUr / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 100’ / SALeS INFO: ciné cri De coeUr

jacqueline@cridecoeur.be

THe BROKeN CIRCLe BReAKDOWN by felix Van GroeninGen An unbearable simple story about two lovers who can not find each other after the death of their six-year-old daughter.

There is no reunification, the broken circle remains broken. And yet everything comes together: the fierce love that is gone, the raw grief, the death instinct, the love for America and the rage against god.

WITH: Veerle BAeTens, JoHAn HelDenBergH / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MenUeT / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 100’ / SALeS INFO: MenUeT info@menuet.be

DeeP IN A DReAM OF YOU by caroline strubbe A psychological drama describing the relationship between a young girl and a grown-up man. Through the alliance of rejected love they eventually accept their relationship. sometimes you have to get lost to find the right way. From the director of Lost Persons Area.

WITH: KiMKe DesArT, ZolTAn MiKlos HAJDU / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): MinDs MeeT / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: TBc / SALeS INFO: MinDs MeeT info@mindsmeet.be

KID by fien troch Kid, a little boy of seven, lives with his mother and his slightly older brother Billy on a farm outside a small town. since their father abandoned them a few years previously, they have had to fend for themselves, and their finances are in ruins. The cows and pigs are being sold and the employees are fired.

Then fate strikes. The loan sharks visit mother at home and in the confusion of a struggle between her and one of the loan sharks, we hear a shot being fired. Mother collapses and dies in front of Billy. Kid misses his mother more than ever, and makes a final attempt to ‘be with her again’.

WITH: TBc / PRODUCeR (FLANDeRS): PriMe TiMe / LANGUAGe: DUTcH / RUNNING TIMe: 90’/ SALeS INFO: PriMe TiMe primetime@scarlet.be

OFFLINe by peter Monsaert Forty-seven year old rudy Vandekerckhove, an unemployed washing machine repairman, vainly tries to pick up his life after a period of misfortune. But his attempts to reconnect with what he let go in the past are not exactly welcomed with open arms. The demons from his past once again appear to get the upper hand, until an anonymous meeting on the internet gives his life an unexpected turn.

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