features CANNES 2014 #talentmatters
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
PITCH / Based on real-life events in 1940’s America, the story of young nurse Martha Beck, who placed a lonely-hearts advertisement, and Raymond Fernandez, the thieving lothario who replied and who destroyed her life.
ALLELUIA
ORIGINAL TITLE / ALLELUIA
IN PRODUCTION
PITCH / Two brass brands, one from Flanders, one from Wallonia, compete to represent Belgium. But a final high note from Willy’s trumpet leads to an unexpected outcome.
A BELGIAN RHAPSODY
CAST / Lola Duenas, Laurent Lucas, Stéphanie Bissot, Edith Le Merdy, Anne-Marie Loop DIRECTED BY / Fabrice Du Welz SCRIPTED BY / Vincent Tavier, Fabrice Du Welz CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / French DURATION / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck, bart@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / SND, sales1@snd-films.fr
GENRE / Musical romantic comedy
CAST / Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Arthur Dupont, Jos Verbist, Marc Weiss, Tom Audenaert DIRECTED BY / Vincent Bal SCRIPTED BY / Pierre De Clercq PRODUCTION COMPANY / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / Dutch, French BUDGET / €3.8m LOOKING FOR / Sales agent CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert,
peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv
ETA / Winter 2014-2015
ORIGINAL TITLE / BRABANÇONNE
/ On a camping trip in the woods with his fellow scouts, 12-year-old Sam’s fears are ignored - until they all start falling victim to the evil Poacher.
IN PRODUCTION
PITCH
CUB
ORIGINAL TITLE / WELP
PITCH / Two adolescents living on an island try to escape their overprotective parents: can they build trust or will circumstances drive them apart? IN PRODUCTION
GENRE / Thriller
GENRE/ Adventure, horror
CAST / Maurice Luyten, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans DIRECTED BY / Jonas Govaerts SCRIPTED BY / Jonas Govaerts, Roel Mondelaers PRODUCTION COMPANY / Potemkino LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Peter De Maegd, pdm@potemkino.com INT’L SALES / Kinology, gmelin@kinology.eu ETA / Fall 2014
GENRE / Drama CAST /
Martin Nissen, Margaux Lonnberg, Clement Bertrand, Clement Louis, Delphine Girard
DIRECTED BY / Emilie Verhamme SCRIPTED BY / Emilie Verhamme
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Holden Wallace LANGUAGE / French DURATION / 78’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
EAU ZOO
ORIGINAL TITLE / EAU ZOO
CONTACT / Emilie Verhamme, emilie.verhamme@gmail.com INT’L SALES / tbc ETA / Fall 2014
FLYING HOME
PITCH / Colin Montgomery, an upand-coming Wall Street whiz kid, is given a week to sign up a potential client - an incredibly wealthy sheikh or risk losing his job. To impress the sheikh, Colin goes to Flanders to track down a world-class racing pigeon. But things get complicated when he finds himself falling for the pigeon owner’s granddaughter.
ORIGINAL TITLE / FLYING HOME
HALFWAY
ORIGINAL TITLE / HALFWEG
PITCH / Involved in a bitter divorce, Stephen moves into the luxury home he managed to buy at a rock-bottom price. But soon his peace is disturbed by Theo whom he discovers in the living room, soaked to the skin and claiming to be the legal owner. Stephen refuses to move out and, in the ensuing territorial battle, Stephen discovers the truth: Theo did indeed own the house… but he died two years ago.
IN PRODUCTION
PITCH / Eva, an ambitious young journalist investigating the Brussels riots, becomes fascinated by her guide Lahbib and his world. Despite Eva’s efforts, her editors aren’t pleased and threaten to stop her.
IMAGE
ORIGINAL TITLE / IMAGE
IN PRODUCTION
PITCH / A 14-year-old boy discovers a computer game that is being played with real children, uploaded in the game’s labyrinth. In a race against time, he starts to search for the evil creator in order to rescue his friends.
LABYRINTHUS ORIGINAL TITLE
/ LABYRINTHUS PITCH / On his way from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer drops in on Lupita and her family and causes all kind of mischief.
GENRE / Parable about love
CAST / Jamie Dornan, Charlotte De Bruyne, Jan Decleir, Josse De Pauw, Viviane De Muynck, Ali Suliman DIRECTED BY / Dominique Deruddere SCRIPTED BY / Dominique Deruddere PRODUCTION COMPANY / Mauna Kea Films and Otomatic LANGUAGE / English, Dutch DURATION / 95’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Pieter Van Huyck, pietervanhuyck@kanakna.com INT’L SALES / Media Luna, info@medialuna.biz GENRE / Tragi-comedy
CAST / Koen De Graeve, Jurgen Delnaet, Evelien Bosmans, Gilles De Schryver, Veerle Baetens, Ella Leyers, Tiny Bertels DIRECTED BY / Geoffrey Enthoven SCRIPTED BY / Pierre De Clercq PRODUCTION COMPANY / Fobic Films LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 115’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Mariano Vanhoof, mariano@fobicfilms.com INT’L SALES / Films Boutique, simon@filmsboutique.com GENRE / Drama CAST / Laura Verlinden, Nabil Mallat, Gène Bervoets,
Geert Van Rampelberg, Wouter Hendrickx, Sanäa Alaoui DIRECTED BY / Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah SCRIPTED BY / Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah PRODUCTION COMPANY / Eyeworks Belgium, A Team Productions LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, Arabic DURATION / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert, peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / tbc ETA / Fall 2014 GENRE / Family adventure CAST / Emma Verlinden, Felix Maesschalk,
Herwig Illegems, Ivan Pecnik, Spencer Bogaert DIRECTED BY / Douglas Boswell SCRIPTED BY / Pierre De Clercq PRODUCTION COMPANY / Savage Film LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 100’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Savage Film, bart@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution, info@attractiondistribution.com ETA / Fall 2014 GENRE / Drama
CAST / Gabino Rodriguez, Norma Pablo DIRECTED BY / Gust Van den Berghe SCRIPTED BY / Gust Van den Berghe
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Minds Meet IN PRODUCTION
LANGUAGE / Spanish DURATION / 107’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
CONTACT / Minds Meet, info@mindsmeet.be
LUCIFER ORIGINAL TITLE
INT’L SALES / tbc
/ LUCIFER
ETA / Fall 2014
PITCH / Calabria, 1948. Salvatore Granata has to leave Italy for a job as a coalminer in Belgium. Struggling to adapt to his new home, his spirited 10-year-old son Rocco starts doing what he does best: playing music.
MARINA
ORIGINAL TITLE / MARINA PITCH / The story of a man whose life stops at the letter N. Through the colourful character of Frenchman Raymond Borremans, the film focuses on a confrontation between his restless spirit and the African continent.
N-THE MADNESS OF REASON
ORIGINAL TITLE / N-THE MADNESS OF REASON
PITCH / Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all, yet a dark shadow hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the disappearance of his younger brother Bjorn. A new case brings it all back.
THE TREATMENT
ORIGINAL TITLE / DE BEHANDELING
PITCH / A young woman has only one weekend to persuade her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
ORIGINAL TITLE / DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT
PITCH / When his wife’s murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc is determined to do everything in his power to prevent it. He decides to take the law into his own hands and do battle with the legal system which let him down.
THE VERDICT
ORIGINAL TITLE / HET VONNIS
GENRE / Drama
CAST / Matteo Simoni, Evelien Bosmans, Luigi Lo Cascio, Donatella Finocchiaro DIRECTED BY / Stijn Coninx SCRIPTED BY / Stijn Coninx, Rik D’hiet PRODUCTION COMPANY / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / Dutch, Italian DURATION / 110’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert, peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Media Luna, info@medialuna.biz GENRE / Drama
CAST / Wendyam Sawadogo, Vieux Farka Touré, Hamadoum Kassogue DIRECTED BY / Peter Krüger SCRIPTED BY / Peter Krüger PRODUCTION COMPANY / Inti Films LANGUAGE / French, English, local African languages DURATION / 102’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Peter Krüger, peter@intifilms.com INT’L SALES / Wide, infos@widemanagement.com
GENRE / Thriller
CAST / Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan Van Assche, Laura Verlinden, Roel Swanenberg DIRECTED BY / Hans Herbots SCRIPTED BY / Carl Joos PRODUCTION COMPANY / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 127’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION/ 2014 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert, peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Be For Films, pamela@beforfilms.com GENRE / Drama
CAST / Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Salée DIRECTED BY / Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne SCRIPTED BY / Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / French DURATION/ 95’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert, peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Wild Bunch, info@wildbunch.eu
GENRE / Courtroom thriller CAST / Koen De Bouw, Johan Leysen, Veerle Baetens,
Jappe Claes, Viviane De Muynck, Wouter Hendrickx, Chris Lomme, Jo De Meyere, Robbie Cleiren DIRECTED BY / Jan Verheyen SCRIPTED BY / Jan Verheyen PRODUCTION COMPANY / Eyeworks Belgium LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 110’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert, peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Media Luna, info@medialuna.biz
IN PRODUCTION
PITCH / Confronted with the grim underbelly of Brussels on a daily basis, taciturn homicide detective Leo Woeste finds his convictions starting to crumble when his wife unexpectedly becomes pregnant…
GENRE / Psychological drama, thriller CAST / Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods DIRECTED BY / Pieter Van Hees SCRIPTED BY / Pieter Van Hees
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Epidemic LANGUAGE / Dutch, French DURATION / 90’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 BUDGET / €2m
LOOKING FOR / Sales agent
WASTE LAND
CONTACT / Eurydice Gysel, eurydice@czar.be ETA / Fall 2014
ORIGINAL TITLE / WASTE LAND
CANNES SCREENINGS SELECTED FILMS
SCREENING AT THE MARKET
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
FLYING HOME 19 May, 16.00, Rivièra 1 INT’L SALES / Media Luna
ALLELUIA May, 14.00, Arcades 2 (market screening) May, 14.00, Olympia 3 (market screening) May, 11.30, Théâtre Croisette (official screening) May, 19.30, Théâtre Croisette (official screening) May, 11.30, Arcades 1 (market screening) INT’L SALES / SND 17 19 22 22 24
HALFWAY 17 May, 09.30, Rivièra 3 (buyers only) 19 May, 09.00, Palais H (buyers only) INT’L SALES / Films Boutique MARINA 20 May, 18.00, Rivièra 3 INT’L SALES / Media Luna
OFFICIAL COMPETITION TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT 20 May, 14.00, Lumière (official screening) 20 May, 19.30, Lumière (official screening) 21 May, 16.00, Star 1 (market screening) INT’L SALES / Wild Bunch
N-THE MADNESS OF REASON 21 May, 15.30, Palais J INT’L SALES / Wide THE TREATMENT 17 May, 09.45, Olympia 7 INT’L SALES / Be For Films THE VERDICT 21 May, 10.00, Rivièra 3 INT’L SALES / Media Luna
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