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featurestvdrama EFM 2016 THE ARDENNES
PITCH / A brutal robbery goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth wherever possible, but is witnessing how his highly-strung brother tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
GENRE / thriller, drama
PITCH / Two people meet again after more than 40 years. Once they were lovers but their lives took different paths: she married his best friend; he married another woman. Now, they are both single again and fall in love for a second time. Is it possible to experience a love you left 40 years ago?
GENRE / drama
CAST / Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens DIRECTED BY / Robin Pront
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SCRIPTED BY / Robin Pront, Jeroen Perceval PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 92’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Attraction / info@attraction.ca
ORIGINAL TITLE / D’ARDENNEN
BEHIND THE CLOUDS
CAST / Chris Lomme, Jo De Meyere, Charlotte De Bruyne DIRECTED BY / Cecilia Verheyden 1 SCRIPTED BY / Michaël De Cock PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 105’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv
ORIGINAL TITLE / ACHTER DE WOLKEN
/ The story of two brothers: charismatic and temperamental Frank and his ambitious-but-green younger brother Jo, who owns a bar called Belgica. They become business partners and quickly Belgica becomes the place to be for great music, beautiful people, and debauched fun - until they learn that running a business on this scale is more complicated than they realised, and their relationship and personal lives suffer. Set to the eclectic sounds of acclaimed Belgian band Soulwax, the film shows the brothers’ intoxicating ascent to success— and the crash and burn that follows. PITCH
BELGICA ORIGINAL TITLE / BELGICA
/ Fifteen-year-old Mavela is a member of the notorious gang Black Bronx. She falls head over heels in love with the charismatic Marwan, a boy from the rival gang 1080’ers. The two young people are brutally forced to choose between loyalty to their gang or their love for each other. An impossible choice... or not?
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BLACK ORIGINAL TITLE / BLACK
GENRE / drama
CAST / Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Hélène Devos, Charlotte Vandermeersch DIRECTED BY / Felix van Groeningen SCRIPTED BY / Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Menuet LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 126’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Dirk Impens / info@menuet.be INT’L SALES / The Match Factory / info@matchfactory.de
GENRE / drama
CAST / Aboubakr Bensaihi, Martha Canga Antonio, Emmanuel Tahon DIRECTED BY / Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah SCRIPTED BY / Hans Herbots, Nele Meirhaeghe, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / French, Arabic, Lingala, Dutch RUNNING TIME / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Ivy Vanhaecke / ivy.vanhaecke@caviarcontent.com INT’L SALES / Be for Films / pamela@beforfilms.com
IN PRODUCTION
PITCH / Hakan, a 38-year old man, has spent
BLUE SILENCE ORIGINAL TITLE / BLUE SILENCE
BROTHER ORIGINAL TITLE / BROER
several years in a psychiatric hospital trying to handle his post traumatic stress disorder. With the gentle help of nurse Ayla, he has been recovering from a troubled past. But now, just before Christmas, the doctors consider him fit enough to return to society. He tries to get in touch with his ex-wife and daughter Melis, but his daughter is reluctant to see him any longer. Only Ayla, a married woman herself, tries to help him through those lonely days. Will he be able to get a grip on his past now that he has returned to normal life?
PITCH / Ex-hotel manager Mark gets an unexpected invitation from the beautiful, immensely rich Irish woman Grace who wishes to renew their old love affair 20 years before. However, the message is not meant for him but for his brother Michel who bankrupted the parental hotel at the time and then left with Mark’s wife. Encouraged by his money-mad neighbour Ronie, Mark decides to pose as his brother and to settle the old family score that way. But when Mark and Ronnie arrive in Ireland, it turns out that Grace has her own agenda…
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CAFARD ORIGINAL TITLE / CAFARD
August, 1914. While Jean Mordant is away winning the title of Wrestling Champion of the World in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German soldiers in Ostend. Determined to avenge this crime Jean, along with his coach and young nephew, enrols in the prestigious ACM (Armoured Car Division). War is ruthless, however, and he and his friends embark on a dramatic journey that will ultimately drag them around the world. Against the backdrop of a show by four stand-up comedians, this is the story of one middle-aged performer who is pursued by his own personal tormenter. What he needs is to find a way to get rid of himself.
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EVERYBODY HAPPY ORIGINAL TITLE / EVERYBODY HAPPY PITCH /
Fortress Europe has collapsed and Northern Europeans are forced to migrate. A middle-class man gets stranded in a coastal village in search of a passage to a promised land. There he meets a girl and a dilemma arises: whether to stay with her in this fallow place or continue his overseas quest at an immoral price.
FALLOW ORIGINAL TITLE / BRAK
GENRE / drama
CAST / Teoman Kumbaracabasi, Roda Canioglu DIRECTED BY / Bülent Öztürk SCRIPTED BY / Bülent Öztürk
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PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Minds Meet LANGUAGE / Turkish
RUNNING TIME / 100’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Tomas Leyers / info@mindsmeet.be ETA / Autumn 2016
GENRE / drama
CAST / Koen De Bouw, Koen De Graeve, Titus De Voogdt, Udo Kier DIRECTED BY / Geoffrey Enthoven SCRIPTED BY / Pierre De Clercq PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Fobic Films LANGUAGE / Dutch, English RUNNING TIME / 115’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Mariano Vanhoof / mariano@fobicfilms.com
GENRE / animation, drama VOICE CAST / Wim Willaert, Dinara Drukarova,
Sebastien Dewaele, Maarten Ketels, Benoît Gob
DIRECTED BY / Jan Bultheel 1 SCRIPTED BY / Jan Bultheel PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Tondo Films LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, English, Russian, Chinese,
Mongolian
RUNNING TIME / 84’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Arielle Sleutel / arielle@tondofilms.be INT’L SALES / Urban Distribution Int’l /
sebastien@urbangroup.biz
GENRE / drama
CAST / Peter Van den Begin, Barbara Sarafian, Jeroen Leenders, Josse De Pauw, Kamal Karmach DIRECTED BY / Nic Balthazar SCRIPTED BY / Nic Balthazar PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 95’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv ETA / Fall 2016 GENRE / drama
CAST / Tibo Vandenborre, Aurora Marion DIRECTED BY / Laurent Van Lancker
SCRIPTED BY / Elvis Peeters, Laurent Van Lancker PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Polymorfilms LANGUAGE / Dutch, English French RUNNING TIME / 75’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Ellen Meiresonne / contact@polymorfilms.be
/ Monique and her daughter Sylvie run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. Eline, Sylvie’s six-year-old daughter, is fascinated by the mysterious work of her mother and grandmother, but she is never allowed to enter the brothel.
IN POST-PRODUCTION
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FLEMISH HEAVEN
GENRE / drama
CAST / Wim Willaert, Sara Vertongen, Esra Vandenbussche DIRECTED BY / Peter Monsaert SCRIPTED BY / Peter Monsaert PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Lunanime LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 100’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Annemie Degryse / annemie@lunanime.be ETA / Fall 2016
ORIGINAL TITLE / LE CIEL FLAMAND
/ Twins, a boy and a girl, are separated at birth. The girl grows up in a bourgeois home while her brother grows up in a street gang, neither knowing about the other’s existence. Twelve years later their paths cross again and they discover their common destiny, imposed on them by adults. This is the beginning of an exciting journey to discover their roots and search for their independence. But neither is able to escape their past…
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GALLOPING MIND
GENRE / drama
CAST / Jerry Killick, Natali Broods, Orsi Toth, Koppány Gillich DIRECTED BY / Wim Vandekeybus SCRIPTED BY / Wim Vandekeybus PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / English, Hungarian, French RUNNING TIME / 115’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Be for Films / pamela@beforfilms.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / GALLOPING MIND
IN POST-PRODUCTION
PITCH / Home portrays the struggle between two generations: teenagers who explore a thin line between trust, friendship and loyalty; and adults who seem alienated from their past younger selves. The clash proves more brutal than expected.
HOME
ORIGINAL TITLE / HOME
GENRE / drama
CAST / Sebastian Van Dun, Loic Bellemans, Mistral Guidoni, Karlijn Sileghem, Lena Suijkerbuijk, Els Deceukelier, Robbie Cleiren DIRECTED BY / Fien Troch SCRIPTED BY / Fien Troch PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Prime Time LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 100’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Antonino Lombardo / info@prime-time.be ETA / Fall 2016
/ King Nicolas II of the Belgians is on a GENRE / political satire symbolic mission in Istanbul with his entourage CAST / Peter Van den Begin, Titus De Voogdt, and a British filmmaker, Duncan Lloyd, who Lucie Debay, Bruno Georis, Nina Nikolina has been commissioned by the palace to DIRECTED BY / Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens shoot a documentary intended to polish his SCRIPTED BY / Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens image. Meanwhile, Wallonia (the southern PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Bo Films half of Belgium) declares its independence. LANGUAGE / various The kingdom has collapsed. The King must return home at once to fulfil his only true royal RUNNING TIME / 104’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 duty: keep the bickering Belgians united. CONTACT / Peter Brosens / peter@bofilms.be But the cosmos decides otherwise. A solar ETA / Fall 2016 storm strikes the earth causing airspace and communications to shut down. Thus begins the King’s odyssey across the Balkans…
IN POST-PRODUCTION
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KEBAB ROYAL ORIGINAL TITLE / KEBAB ROYAL
THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED ORIGINAL TITLE / THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
PITCH / In this seamless blend of fictional and documentary form, director Pieter-Jan De Pue paints a whimsical yet haunting look at the condition of Afghanistan left for the next generation. As American soldiers prepare to leave, young boys form wild gangs to control trade routes, sell explosives from mines left over from war, and climb rusting tanks as playgrounds—making the new rules of war based on the harsh landscape left to them.
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Pieter-Jan De Pue SCRIPTED BY / Pieter-Jan De Pue
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PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film
LANGUAGE / English, Farsi, Pashtu, Waghi, ... RUNNING TIME / 87’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Films Boutique / info@filmsboutique.com
My First Highway tells the story of a boy who does everything for love - but perhaps does too much. It’s a tale of love and lost innocence: a love story with a bitter twist set in the world of teenagers. Everything remains the same, but somehow everything changes…
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MY FIRST HIGHWAY
GENRE / coming-of-age drama
CAST / Aäron Roggeman, Romy Louise Lauwers, Natali Broods, Mathias Sercu DIRECTED BY / Kevin Meul 1 SCRIPTED BY / Kevin Meul PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Fobic Films LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 80’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Mariano Vanhoof / mariano@fobicfilms.com ETA / Summer 2016
ORIGINAL TITLE / MY FIRST HIGHWAY PITCH /
PROBLEMSKI HOTEL ORIGINAL TITLE / PROBLEMSKI HOTEL
The cross-frontier migrant’s life ‘within the system’ - an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues - becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul doesn’t want to admit it, but the arrival of Lidia, a Russian girl makes a difference. Hope? Surely not! A future? Get real! December is also the ninth month of Martina’s pregnancy. But, just when the situation seems hopeless, help is at hand.
/ The 3D-animated story of Tuesday, a friendly young parrot who lives on an island paradise with a quirky bunch of animal friends but dreams of discovering the rest of the world. After a violent storm, parrot Tuesday and his animal friends discover Robinson Crusoe, a strange creature washed up on their beach. The animals are going to have to tame this new arrival, which just might give Tuesday the opportunity to experience an extraordinary adventure and perhaps leave his island!
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ROBINSON CRUSOE ORIGINAL TITLE / ROBINSON CRUSOE
/ In Bolivia, a glacier is melting. Samuel, an elderly ski lift operator, is looking out of a window on the rooftop of the world. He is hoping for fresh snow to fall on the world’s highest ski resort. A hundred metres below him, scientists are measuring ominous changes. The clouds continue to drift by.
IN POST-PRODUCTION
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GENRE / drama
CAST / Tarek Halaby, Evgenia Brendes, Gökhan Girginol DIRECTED BY / Manu Riche
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SCRIPTED BY / Manu Riche, Steve Hawes, Dimitri
Verhulst
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Cassette for timescapes LANGUAGE / various
RUNNING TIME / 110’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Emmy Oost / emmy@timescapes.be
GENRE / animation, family
VOICE CAST / Yuri Lowenthal, David Howard
DIRECTED BY / Vincent Kesteloot, Ben Stassen
SCRIPTED BY / Lee Christopher, Domonic Paris, Graham Welldon PRODUCTION / nWave Digital LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Eric Dillens / edillens@nwave.com INT’L SALES / StudioCanal / anna.marsch@studiocanal.com
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Pieter Van Eecke SCRIPTED BY / Pieter Van Eecke
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Clin d’Oeil Films LANGUAGE / Spanish, Aymara RUNNING TIME / 70’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Hanne Phlypo / hanne@clindoeilfilms.be INT’L SALES / Deckert Distribution /
info@deckert-distribution.com
SAMUEL IN THE CLOUDS
ORIGINAL TITLE / SAMUEL IN THE CLOUDS
Lilian works at a meat factory, adding bay leaves to liver patties. Once known as ‘Laura’, she was a rising star in the music industry and even took part in the Eurovision Song Contest. Now she leads a secluded life in an apartment stuffed with relics from her bygone days of glory. But then 22-yearold Jean walks into her life.
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SOUVENIR ORIGINAL TITLE / SOUVENIR
GENRE / drama
CAST / Isabelle Huppert, Kévin Azaïs, Johan Leysen DIRECTED BY / Bavo Defurne
SCRIPTED BY / Bavo Defurne, Yves Verbraeken,
Jacques Boon
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Indeed Films LANGUAGE / French
RUNNING TIME / 95’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Yves Verbraeken / yves@indeedfilms.be INT’L SALES / Pathé International /
sales@patheinternational.com
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What would you do if you could change the past? This is the story of Viktor, a brilliant young professor who discovers a way to manipulate time. Now he can finally change the past and help his beloved Lena. But as Viktor soon learns, changing the past is not without risk.
SUM OF HISTORIES ORIGINAL TITLE / TERUG NAAR MORGEN
Alice leads a routine life as a highclass call girl, and avoids deeper social contact… Until she is forced to take care of her six-year-old son she abandoned years ago.
IN POST-PRODUCTION
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CAST / Koen De Graeve, Matteo Simoni, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Karina Smulders DIRECTED BY / Lukas Bossuyt 1 SCRIPTED BY / Lukas Bossuyt PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 84’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Ivy Vanhaecke / ivy.vanhaecke@caviarcontent.com INT’L SALES / Media Luna New Films / info@medialuna.biz GENRE / drama
CAST / Évelyne Brochu, Eriq Ebouaney, Zuri François DIRECTED BY / Nathalie Teirlinck SCRIPTED BY / Nathalie Teirlinck
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PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / French, Dutch RUNNING TIME / TBC
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Xavier Rombaut / xavier@savagefilm.be / Bart Van Langendonck / bart@savagefilm.be ETA / Fall 2016
TONIC IMMOBILITY ORIGINAL TITLE / TONIC IMMOBILITY
A suicidal young man is obsessed by the end of the world. His crazy French aunt decides to cure him by showing him the beauty of life.
IN POST-PRODUCTION
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VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD ORIGINAL TITLE / VINCENT EN HET EINDE VAN DE WERELD
/ Hotel Beau Séjour. Kato, covered in blood, wakes up without any recollection of what happened the night before. Moreover, nobody seems to see or hear her. Slowly it sinks in: she’s dead. Who did this to her? And how come a handful of people can still see her, as if she’s among the living? Why them specifically? In her search to uncover the truth, Kato will discover that a lot of secrets lie beneath the surface of her supposedly peaceful village community.
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IN POST-PRODUCTION
tv drama
GENRE / drama
BEAU SEJOUR
ORIGINAL TITLE / BEAU SÉJOUR
/ Police chief Lex enters the virusridden cordon to be with his loved one, but can’t believe the chaos after only 30 days of being cut off from the world. Along with a UN-soldier, he wants to reclaim gangcontrolled food distribution, get guns off the streets and clean up the local prison where the women’s, men’s and psychiatric wings have merged. Then a supposedly full-proof virus test violently puts the lucky ones against the less fortunate -especially as a religious group considers themselves to be the chosen ones.
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CORDON II
ORIGINAL TITLE / CORDON II
GENRE / dramatical comedy CAST / Spencer Bogaert, Alexandra Lamy,
Barbara Sarafian, Geert Van Rampelberg DIRECTED BY / Christoph Van Rompaey SCRIPTED BY / Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, Pat Van Beirs PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 100’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / info@aprivateview.be INT’L SALES / Beta Film / beta@betafilm.com ETA / Summer 2016 GENRE / drama CAST / Lynn Van Royen, Johan Van Assche,
Kris Cuppens, Charlotte Timmers, Joren Seldeslachts
DIRECTED BY / Kaat Beels, Nathalie Basteyns SCRIPTED BY / Benjamin Sprengers, Sanne Nuyens,
Bert Van Dael
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / deMensen LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 10 x 52’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Marijke Wouters / marijke.wouters@
demensen.be INT’L SALES / Lagardère Studios Distribution / emmanuelle.bouilhaguet@lagardere-studios.com ETA / Winter 2016/17 GENRE / drama CAST / Liesa Van der Aa, Wouter Hendrickx, Johan Van
Assche, Mieke De Groote, Sven De Ridder, Koen De Sutter DIRECTED BY / Eshref Reybrouck SCRIPTED BY / Carl Joos PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 10 x 50’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@ eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Warner Bros Int’l TV Production / Adam.Hollman@warnerbros.com ETA / Fall/Winter 2016
/ Mie, a young woman, is locked up in a Secure Psychiatric Hospital. She gets visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers, who is trying to solve a disturbing missing persons case. Mie was the last person to be seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. She can’t be released from the Secure Hospital until he is found. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past.
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TABULA RASA ORIGINAL TITLE / TABULA RASA
/ The people in Forres don’t work. Between nine and five they disappear into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin comes to town: he has travelled to this remote corner of Europe to hide and lay low but this proves impossible in a town where rumours spread faster then the plague. All characters except Bodkin are real people playing themselves. Red James, a Scotsman who has spent time in various prisons in the UK, narrates the story.
co-productions
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BODKIN RAS ORIGINAL TITLE / BODKIN RAS
/ Sylvia has turned a blind eye to her husband’s flourishing drugs business for too long. Now that everything is falling apart, staying is hell but leaving is no option either…
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GENRE / psychological thriller CAST / Veerle Baetens, Stijn Van Opstal, Jeroen Perceval,
Gene Bervoets, Natali Broods, Hilde Van Mieghem, Peter Van Den Begin, François Beukelaers, Lynn Van Royen, Tom Audenaert SCRIPTED BY / Malin-Sarah Gozin, Veerle Baetens, Christophe Dirickx DIRECTOR(S) / Jonas Govaerts & Kaat Beels PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 9x48’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Helen Perquy /helen.perquy@caviarcontent.com INT’L SALES / ZDFe / tasja.abel@gmail.com ETA / Winter 2016/17 GENRE / hybrid docu-thriller
CAST / Sohrab Bayat, Lily Szramko, James Macmillan, Eddie Paton DIRECTED BY / Kaweh Modiri 1 SCRIPTED BY / Kaweh Modiri CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Inti Films LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 79’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016 CONTACT / Peter Krüger / peter@intifilms.com
GENRE / crime drama
CAST / Jeroen van Koningsbrugge & Thekla Reuten DIRECTED BY / Tjebbo Penning
SCRIPTED BY / Carl Joos & Tjebbo Penning
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 108’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Wide Management / infos@widemanagement.com
CLEAN HANDS ORIGINAL TITLE / SCHONE HANDEN
/ Pier Ulmann blames his family of diamond dealers for his father’s tragic life – and death. To take revenge, he returns among them, in Antwerp, with a robbery plan in mind.
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DARK INCLUSION
GENRE / thriller CAST / Niels Schneider, August Diehl, Hans-Peter Cloos,
Abdel Hafed Benotman, Raphaëlle Godin DIRECTED BY / Arthur Harari SCRIPTED BY / Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Agnes Feuvre. Based on an original idea from Arthur Harari and Olivier Seror CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 115’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Films Distribution / fry@filmsdistribution.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / DIAMANT NOIR
PANORAMA
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THE FIRST THE LAST ORIGINAL TITLE / LES PREMIERS LES DERNIERS
On an infinite windswept plain, two inseparable bounty hunters, Cochise and Gilou, are on a quest to find a stolen phone containing sensitive material. They cross paths with Esther and Willy, a couple on the run. And what if it was the end of the world? In this forgotten town where everyone fails, can they rediscover human nature at its best? These may be the last men but they are not very different from the first.
GENRE / drama
CAST / Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale, Aurore Broutin DIRECTED BY / Bouli Lanners SCRIPTED BY / Bouli Lanners CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Prime Time LANGUAGE / French RUNNING TIME / 98’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Antonino Lombardo / info@prime-time.be INT’L SALES / Wild Bunch / obarbier@wildbunch.eu
/ Maxime and Mélanie are in love. Only 15, they are barely out of their childhood. Mélanie discovers she is pregnant. Maxime wants to keep the child at all costs.
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KEEPER
GENRE / drama
CAST / Kacey Mottet Klein, Galatea Bellugi, Catherine Salée, Sam Louwyck DIRECTED BY / Guillaume Senez SCRIPTED BY / Guillaume Senez, David Lambert CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / French RUNNING TIME / 94’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Be for Films / pamela@beforfilms.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / KEEPER
/ A Quiet Passion is a film based on the life and work of the poet Emily Dickinson. She wrote a poem a day, but only a fraction of her output was published in her lifetime. She was extremely shy, but with a wry, lively sense of humour. Her friendships were intense but it was within the family that she found her greatest happiness. Her life was one of quiet dignity… The poetry magnificent: all the terror and beauty of the world distilled down to the quintessence of meaning and expression. She was quite simply one of the world’s greatest poets.
GENRE / drama
PITCH / Shadow World reveals how the international trade in weapons - with the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies and weapons manufacturers fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies and undermines democracy.
GENRE / documentary
BERLINALE SPECIAL PROGRAMME
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A QUIET PASSION ORIGINAL TITLE / A QUIET PASSION
CAST / Cynthia Nixon, Keith Carradine, Jeniffer Ehle DIRECTED BY / Terence Davies SCRIPTED BY / Terence Davies
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Potemkino LANGUAGE / English
RUNNING TIME / 125’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Peter De Maegd / pdm@potemkino.com INT’L SALES / Double Dutch Int’l /
info@doubledutchmedia.ca
DIRECTED BY / Johan Grimonprez
SCRIPTED BY / Johan Grimonprez, Andrew Feinstein CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Onomatopee Films LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 90’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Emmy Oost / emmyoost@telenet.be INT’L SALES / Wide House / Anaïs Clanet /
ac@widehouse.org
SHADOW WORLD
PANORAMA
ORIGINAL TITLE / SHADOW WORLD
STRIKE A POSE ORIGINAL TITLE / STRIKE A POSE
PITCH / In 1990, seven young male dancers - six gay, one straight - joined Madonna on her most controversial tour on stage and in the iconic film Truth or Dare. Now, 25 years later, they reveal their individual stories and the difficulty of living the liberated life they were promoting during the tour. Their incredible stories, set against the film that marked pop and gay culture as much as their own lives, are inspirational and life-changing.
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Serendipity Films LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 83’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2016
CONTACT / Ellen De Waele / ellen@serendipityfilms.be SALES INFO / CTM Docs / docs@ctm.nl
BERLINALE SCREENINGS SELECTED FILMS PANORAMA THE FIRST THE LAST 14 February, 20.00, International 15 February, 17.45, CineStar 3 16 February, 22.45, Cubix 7&8 19 February, 17.00, International 20 February, 22.30, CinemaxX 7 INT’L SALES / Wild Bunch STRIKE A POSE 15 February, 17.00, International 16 February, 12.00, CineStar 7 17 February, 17.45, Cubix 8 19 February, 14.30, Colosseum 1 21 February, 17.30, Cubix 7 SALES INFO / CTM DOCS BERLINALE SPECIAL PROGRAMME A QUIET PASSION 14 February, 21:00, Friedrichstadt-Palast INT’L SALES / Double Dutch International
SCREENING AT THE MARKET THE ARDENNES 11 February, 15.45, CinemaxX 17 14 February, 14.45, CinemaxX 15 INT’L SALES / Attraction
BEAU SÉJOUR 16 February, 12.15, EFM Cinemobile INT’L SALES / Lagardère Studios
GALLOPING MIND 13 February, 10.45, CinemaxX 9 16 February, 17.00, CineStar 6 INT’L SALES / Be for Films
BELGICA Please check daily screening schedule INT’L SALES / The Match Factory
KEEPER 13 February, 12.45, EFM Cinemobile 16 February, 11.15, Kino Arsenal 2 INT’L SALES / Be for Films
BLACK 13 February, 14.35, CineStar 1 16 February, 12.45, CineStar 4 INT’L SALES / Be for Films CAFARD 15 February, 13.15, CinemaxX 12 INT’L SALES / Urban Distribution International CLEAN HANDS 12 February, 11.30, EFM Cinemobile 15 February, 13.00, CinemaxX 13 INT’L SALES / Wide Management DARK INCLUSION 11 February, 10.45, Kino Arsenal 1 15 February, 18.10, CineStar6 INT’L SALES / Films Distribution THE FIRST THE LAST 12 February, 15.15, EFM Cinemobile 13 February, 11.30, CineStar 2 INT’L SALES / Wild Bunch
THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED 12 February, 13.30, CineStar 2 14 February, 14.20, CinemaxX 1 INT’L SALES / Films Boutique A QUIET PASSION 11 February, 16.45, CinemaxX 10 INT’L SALES / Double Dutch Int’l ROBINSON CRUSOE 14 February, 12.00, CinemaxX 3 16 February, 09.00, CineStar 1 INT’L SALES / StudioCanal SHADOW WORLD 13 February, 13.50, CinemaxX 2 INT’L SALES / Wide House SUM OF HISTORIES 15 February, 10.50, CinemaxX 15 INT’L SALES / Media Luna New Films
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