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Cannes Market 2013

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MONT BLANC by gilles coulier

When an 80-year-old father is declared terminally ill, he asks his son to make a journey together. He wants to see the Mont Blanc for the last time. Soon it becomes clear that the relationship between father and son isn’t ideal. They don’t understand each other.

But with the end of his life in sight, the differences get even more obvious.

WITH: WIM WILLAERT, JEAN-PIERRE LAUWERS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MENUET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 14’ / SALES INFO: MENUET info@menuet.be  Selected for Official Competition (shorts)

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BORGMAN by alex van warmerdam

market screenings: 20 May, 16.00, Olympia 1 / 21 May, 12.00, Palais I Camiel Borgman arrives as an outsider in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia.

His presence unleashes a growing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny.

WITH: JAN BIJVOET, JEROEN PERCEVAL, TOM DEWISPELAERE, HADEWICH MINIS / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EPIDEMIC / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 118’ / INT’L SALES: FORTISSIMO FILMS info@fortissimo.nl  Selected for Official Competition P

THE CONGRESS by ari folman

market screenings: 16 May, 9.00, Theatre Croisette / 17 May, 9.30, Olympia 1 / 18 May, 22.30, Arcades 1 / 19 May, 9.30, Star 1 / 21 May, 9.30, Star 2 / 23 May, 9.30, Olympia 6 An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn’t consider.

LIVE ACTION – ANIMATION / STUDIO (FLANDERS): WALKING THE DOG / CO-PRODUCER (BELGIUM): ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 120’ / INT’L SALES: THE MATCH FACTORY info@matchfactory.de  Opening film of the Directors’ Fortnight P

HENRI by yolande moreau

market screenings: 17 May, 12.00, Arcades 2 / 19 May, 12.00, Olympia 3 / 21 May, 10.00, Olympia 6 (all buyers only) / 24 May, 12.00, Theatre Croisette / 25 May, 11.30, Arcades 1 Henri and his wife Rita, in their fifties, run a small restaurant on a B road. When Rita suddenly dies, Henri’s life is turned upside down. Rosette, a slightly mentally handicapped young girl whom he hires to help in the restaurant, will stir him and bring him back to life...

WITH: PIPPO DELBONO, CANDY MING, JACKIE BERROYER / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 107’ / INT’L SALES: LE PACTE contact@le-pacte.com  Selected for the Directors’ Fortnight

Please check daily screening schedule for festival screenings and last-minute programme changes.

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AFRICAN SAFARI 3D by ben stassen

15 May, 16.00, Arcades 2 / 18 May, 16.00, Arcades 2 / 19 May, 12.00, Arcades 2 / Take the ride of a lifetime and go on the most thrilling safari you could ever experience in never before seen immersive 3D, traveling across Africa from Namibia to the Kilimanjaro.

3D DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NWAVE PICTURES / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 85’ / INT’L SALES: STUDIOCANAL harold.vanlier@studiocanal.com P

AFTERMAN 3

by rob van eyck

17 May, 16.00, Gray 5 Global warming has turned Europe into a chaotic wasteland. From the decadent capital of the Union, a desperate cry for help arises: a notorious bastard prince asks help from the sordid Afterman.

WITH: FRANKA RAVET, FRIDA FARRELL, JACQUES VERBIST / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FLEMISH FILM PRODUCTION & ZENO PICTURES / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 82’ / sales info: ZENO PICTURES theafterman@mail.com

ALLEZ, EDDY! by gert embrechts 19 May, 10.00, Palais K Freddy (11) is the son of a local butcher in the back of beyond and a real cycling talent. When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race, the winner of which will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters surreptitiously. Participation in the race opens up a new world, not only for Freddy, but for all those surrounding him.

WITH: PETER VAN DEN BEGIN, BARBARA SARAFIAN, JELTE BLOMMAERT / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): CINÉ CRI DE COEUR / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 97’ / INT’L SALES: GLOBAL SCREEN info@globalscreen.de

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by felix van groeningen 22 May, 15.30, Star 3 Elise has her own tattoo shop, Didier plays the banjo in a band. It is love at first sight, in spite of major differences. Their happiness is complete after their little girl Maybelle is born. Unfortunately, at the age of six, she becomes seriously ill. Didier and Elise respond in very different ways. But Maybelle does not leave them any choice. Didier and Elise will have to fight for her together.

WITH: VEERLE BAETENS, JOHAN HELDENBERGH, NELL CATTRYSSE / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MENUET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / INT’L SALES: THE MATCH FACTORY zsuzsi.bankuti@matchfactory.de

OFFLINE by peter monsaert 22 May, 10.00, Lerins 2 After a seven-year absence, Rudy has set himself a clear objective: he hopes to find a new job, and – more importantly – to reconcile with the daughter he left behind.

A strange encounter during an online chat leads him towards a startling discovery.

WITH: WIM WILLAERT, ANEMONE VALCKE, PATRICIA GOEMAERE, MOURADE ZEGUENDI / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LUNANIME / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 110’ / INT’L SALES: LUMIERE PUBLISHING sales@lumiere.be Please check daily screening schedule for last-minute programme changes.

CO-PRODUCTIONS AT THE CANNES MARKET also available P THE BAG OF FLOUR by kadija leclere 21 May, 11.30, Palais H Sarah, an eight-year-old Moroccan Muslim girl, lives in a Catholic orphanage in Belgium in the 1970s. She is taken by her biological father to a poverty-stricken village in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. There she spends her teenage years simultaneous with the years of the Hunger Revolt in Morocco.

WITH: HAFSIA HERZI, HIAM ABBASS, SMAIN FAIROUZE, MEHDI DEHBI / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: FRENCH, ARABIC / RUNNING TIME: 92’ / INT’L SALES: NOORI PICTURES info@nooripictures.com

TENDERNESS by marion hänsel 18 May, 14.00, Palais C Separated for the past 15 years, a man and a woman find themselves reunited for the duration of a two-day journey to repatriate their son, hospitalized after a serious ski accident. What do they still feel for one another? Indifference, rancour, jealousy?

Or perhaps complicity, friendship and, who knows, love.

WITH: OLIVIER GOURMET, MARILYNE CANTO, ADRIEN JOLIVET, SERGI LÓPEZ / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MAN’S FILMS PRODUCTIONS / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 80’ / INT’L SALES: DOC & FILM INTERNATIONAL d.elstner@docandfilm.com

THE ZIGZAG KID by vincent bal 17 May, 16.00, Palais H / 20 May, 17.30, Palais H Nono wants to be like his father – the best police inspector in the world – but he constantly gets in trouble. Two days before his Bar Mitzvah, he is sent away to his uncle Sjmoel, who is supposed to get him back on track. However, during the train ride Nono gets one last chance to prove himself... Together with master-burglar Felix Glick – an old acquaintance of his father – he stops the train and enters a world of disguises, chases, French chansons and Zohara, a mysterious woman whose secrets will change Nono’s life forever.

WITH: BURGHART KLAUßNER, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, FEDJA VAN HUÊT / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / INT’L SALES: ATTRACTION DISTRIBUTION xiao@attraction.ca

also available BRASSERIE ROMANTIQUE

by joël vanhoebrouck

While preparing her brasserie’s stylish dining room for Valentine’s Day, Pascaline (40) suddenly gets confronted with her lover of 20 years ago. Her patrons that evening also cope with the unexpected. Bored housewife Rose tells her husband that she has a lover. Mia intends to commit suicide, until she’s courted by the waiter. And inconspicious civil servant Walter is wrecked by insecurity when seated in front of the woman of his dreams.

WITH: AXEL DAESELEIRE, SARA DE ROO, KOEN DE BOUW, WOUTER HENDRICKX, BARBARA SARAFIAN, FILIP PEETERS, RUTH BECQUART, MATHIJS SCHEEPERS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A PRIVATE VIEW / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 104’ / SALES INFO: A PRIVATE VIEW dries@aprivateview.be

TRAUMLAND

by daniël lambo

Dominique, a film editor, lives on the boat Traumland. He is editing a documentary about Congolese child witches when he is disturbed by a noise. In the cargo deck he finds the injured Congolese Caporal. A strange friendship grows between the two men. Their story will take them over water to Brussels.

WITH: IWEIN SEGERS, CLAUDE MUSUNGAYI, TOM WAES, ROOS VAN ACKER / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LAMBO FILMS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH, DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 60’ / SALES INFO: LAMBO FILMS lambofilms@gmail.com Please check daily screening schedule for last-minute programme changes.

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

82 DAYS IN APRIL

by bart van den bempt

Herman and Marie, a couple in their fifties, arrive in Istanbul to pick up the luggage of their deceased son. In his backpack, Herman discovers a logbook of their son’s last trip through Turkey. He convinces Marie to follow their son’s footsteps, to see what he has seen. They depart on a journey where they not only discover an unknown part of the world, but also of their son and of themselves.

WITH: MARC PEETERS, KAREN VANPARYS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, ENGLISH, TURKISH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SUMMER 2013 / SALES INFO: SERENDIPITY FILMS ellen@serendipityfilms.be

DRIFT

by benny vandendriessche & dirk hendrikx

The story of a man looking for salvation. Losing his lover, the man becomes silent and drifts off on a mythical journey through a real but barren landscape. He fights his grief through beautiful and painful physical rituals, developing a primitive state of being that refers to universal ancient stories. As the past reveals itself, the man slowly disappears.

WITH: DIRK HENDRIKX / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): INTI FILMS / LANGUAGE: ROMANIAN, DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 80’ / ETA: FALL 2013 / SALES INFO: INTI FILMS peter@intifilms.com

LOS FLAMENCOS by daniël lambo The three elderly brothers Fleminckx – aka Los Flamencos – are plotting one last bank robbery to honour the last wish of their deceased mother, a funeral in Mexico. Their simple plan turns into a hectic adventure filled with pursuits, hostage taking, cremations and defective pacemakers. Will they find what they are really looking for, a lost love, their own voice or simply luck, in a bank vault? And will they manage to get to Mexico?

WITH: PETER VAN DEN EEDE, HERWIG ILEGEMS, MARK VERSTRAETE / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MINDS MEET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SEPTEMBER 2013 / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET info@mindsmeet.be

FLYING HOME by dominique deruddere A wealthy sheikh from Dubai sends an American businessman to Flanders. His mission is to acquire a famous, prize-winning race pigeon.

WITH: JAMIE DORNAN, CHARLOTTE DE BRUYNE, JAN DECLEIR, JOSSE DE PAUW / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FLYING HOME BVBA / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 95’ / ETA: FALL 2013 / SALES INFO: FLYING HOME BVBA ludopoppe@4mat4.com

IMAGE by adil el arbi & bilall fallah Eva is a young, ambitious Dutch journalist making a report on the troubled districts in Brussels. She soon becomes fascinated by her guide Lahbib, a local young man with a rough reputation, and his world. Despite Eva’s efforts, her chief editors aren’t pleased and threaten to stop her.

WITH: LAURA VERLINDEN, NABIL MALLAT, GENE BERVOETS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A TEAM PRODUCTIONS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, FRENCH, ARABIC / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SPRING 2014 / SALES INFO: A TEAM PRODUCTIONS hendrik@ateamproductions.be

I’M THE SAME I’M AN OTHER by caroline strubbe A psychological drama picturing the unusual relationship between a young girl and a man living together in an abandoned coastal village. Despite their barriers and dependence 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: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 115’ / ETA: SUMMER 2013 / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET info@mindsmeet.be

MARINA by stijn coninx Calabria, 1948. Salvatore, a poor ironsmith, has to leave the country for a job as a coalminer in Belgium. His spirited 10-year-old son Rocco tries to adapt to his new surroundings and starts doing what he does best: playing music.

WITH: MATTEO SIMONI, EVELIEN BOSMANS, LUIGI LO CASCIO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, ITALIAN / RUNNING TIME: 120’ / ETA: NOVEMBER 2013 / SALES INFO: EYEWORKS peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv

THE POWER OF N by peter krüger The journey of the spirit of the deceased Raymond Borremans whose dream it was to write the first African Encyclopaedia. He died having only reached the letter ‘N’. As a restless spirit he now drifts around West-Africa searching to find his new destiny… The film is an audiovisual evocation of the confrontation between a European spirit and the African continent - about the madness of reason and the reason of his madness.

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): INTI FILMS / LANGUAGE: FRENCH, LOCAL AFRICAN LANGUAGES / RUNNING TIME: 110’ / ETA: FALL 2013 / SALES INFO: INTI FILMS peter@intifilms.com

THE TREATMENT by hans herbots Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all: the looks, the brains, and the career outlook.

Yet a dark shadow hangs over his life and relationships. Since age nine, Nick has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother Bjorn. The only woman able to sustain an on-off relationship with Nick is his chief Danni who is slightly older. She is reluctant to involve Nick in a very disturbing case: an intruder has held a couple captive for three days and then vanished without a trace, along with their nine-year old son Robin.

Nick heads a massive search and turns it into a relentless manhunt.

WITH: GEERT VAN RAMPELBERG, INA GEERTS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 120’ / ETA: FEBRUARY 2014 / SALES INFO: EYEWORKS peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv

THE VERDICT by jan verheyen When his wife’s murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening… He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state, which let him down. The Verdict is a catchy and controversial thriller about law and justice, morality and ethics, but also about how a man engages in a fight with the constitutional state.

WITH: KOEN DE BOUW, JOHAN LEYSEN, VEERLE BAETENS, JOKE DEVYNCK, WOUTER HENDRICKX / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / ETA: OCTOBER 2013 / SALES INFO: EYEWORKS peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv

VIOLET by bas devos Set in the suburbs of a city, a teenager tries to cope with the violent loss of his best friend.

WITH: CÉSAR DE SUTTER, RAF WALSCHAERTS, MIRA HELMER / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MINDS MEET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 85’ / ETA: FALL 2013 / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET info@mindsmeet.be

WASTE LAND by pieter van hees Brussels. The introverted homicide detective Leo Woeste lives together with Kathleen and her five-year old son. Confronted with the capital’s grim underbelly on a daily basis, Leo’s convictions start to crumble when Kathleen unexpectedly becomes pregnant. His very last homicide case, involving a death-obsessed dealer of Congolese cult statues, slowly pulls him away from his wife and his role as a father. Deeper into the waste land.

WITH: JÉRÉMIE RENIER, NATALI BROODS, PETER VAN DEN BEGIN / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EPIDEMIC / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SPRING 2014 / SALES INFO: EPIDEMIC eurydice@epidemic.be

CANNES SHORT FILM CORNER 30M3 by jeroen broeckx

We all use our garages for various things, except to park our car in it. The garage door is a gateway to a collection of stories of these hidden spaces and their owners.

DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): RITS School of Arts / LANGUAGE: NO DIALOGUES / RUNNING TIME: 18’ / SALES INFO: RITS SCHOOL OF ARTS laikin.chang@ehb.be

BETTY’S BLUES by rémi vandenitte

A young guitarist tries his luck in an old blues dive in Louisiana, remembering the legend of Blind Boogie Jones, in the New Orleans of the 1920’s, a story of love and revenge…

ANIMATION / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LUNANIME / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 12’ / SALES INFO: LUNANIME sara@lunanime.be

FORTY SCENES ABOUT FIRE

by magali coremans

Lia and Marcus are a couple. They observe each other from a distance. They remodel their home. They exist alongside each other. They are stuck.

WITH: LIEVE MEEUSSEN, PIERRE VAN HEDDEGEM, HELENA COPPEJANS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): RITS SCHOOL OF ARTS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 29’ / SALES INFO: MAGALI COREMANS magali.coremans@gmail.com

LITTLE RYAN

by aad verstraelen

A small bird has a limitless admiration for the airplanes he sees up in the sky. He wants to fly just like them.

ANIMATION / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MAD-FACULTY GENK / LANGUAGE: NO DIALOGUES / RUNNING TIME: 4’ / SALES INFO: AAD VERSTRAELEN verstraelenaad@hotmail.com

MATURING AS A TREE

by hans galle

A young filmmaker tells a friend about the movie he is trying to make. He is bursting with enthusiasm but seems a bit anxious at the same time.

EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): KASK SCHOOL OF ARTS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH, DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 23’ / SALES INFO: HANS GALLE hansgalle@gmail.com

NIGREDO

by michael van ostade

Sarah, who is in complete denial after the death of her only son, keeps getting confronted by external forces, be it a nosy neighbour or a dead bird at her doorstep.

WITH: INA GEERTS, WIM WILLAERT, KIMKE DESART, DOLORES BOUCKAERT / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MICHAEL VAN OSTADE / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 23’ / SALES INFO: MICHAEL VAN OSTADE vanostade.michael@gmail.com

PATER FAMILIAS

by bram cartigny

A young director tries to find out why his father left his family 13 years ago. With the help of his family and friends he searches for answers that can help him reveal the truth.

DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): BRAM CARTIGNY / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 30’ / SALES INFO: BRAM CARTIGNY bram_cartigny@hotmail.com

TSJERNOBYL HEARTS

by emilie verhamme

Two teenagers decide to revisit the house they used to live in but only to find their past in an unrecognizable state. They meet the current owners who let them look around.

WITH: MARTIN NISSEN, AGATHE BRIAND / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MINDS MEET / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 21’ / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET info@mindsmeet.be

THE WAKE

by pieter coudyzer

A man wakes his wife, who is in a coma.

ANIMATION / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): S.O.I.L. / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 21’ / SALES INFO: S.O.I.L. info@soilart.be

WOLF’S MILK

by hans vercauter

After being imprisoned for several years Marcus is determined to settle a score with his brother Simon.

WITH: WOUTER HENDRICKX, BEN SEGERS, MARIJKE PINOY, WINE DIERICKX / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): CAVIAR / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 14’ / SALES INFO: CAVIAR eva.van.riet@caviarcontent.com

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