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/ What if you eat a chair to prove something? And your whole world turns upside down after that, unintentionally?

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ABOUT THE BOY WHO ATE AN OAKWOOD CHAIR

GENRE / drama, thriller

DIRECTED BY / Pieter Goethals SCRIPTED BY / Pieter Goethals

CAST / Gauthier Castille, Jaak Van Assche, Greg Timmermans, Hilde Uitterlinden, Ben Segers, Lize Feryn LANGUAGE / Dutch, English RUNNING TIME / 27’57” PRODUCTION / Creative Genes Productions YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Pieter Goethals / info@creativegenes.be

ORIGINAL TITLE / ABOUT THE BOY WHO ATE AN OAKWOOD CHAIR

/ An experimental story about a woman with an (inner) demon who haunts her in daily life. She attempts to avoid and ignore the monster until she comes to the revelation that she should accept and live with it.

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GENRE / drama, animation

DIRECTED BY / Liesbet van Loon SCRIPTED BY / Liesbet van Loon LANGUAGE / no dialogues RUNNING TIME / 2’14”

PRODUCTION / Liesbet van Loon, LUCA School of Arts YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Liesbet van Loon / liesbetvanloon@gmail.com

THE BEAST

ORIGINAL TITLE / THE BEAST

/ The life of a scruffy, banished homeless man is enlightened by the arrival of a very unexpected visitor.

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GENRE / drama, animation

DIRECTED BY / Pieter Coudyzer SCRIPTED BY / Pieter Coudyzer

VOICE CAST / Marc ‘Moon’ van Overmeir,

Darren Roebuck

LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 20’

PRODUCTION / S.O.I.L. YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

BEAST!

CONTACT / Linda Sterckx / linda@soilart.be

ORIGINAL TITLE / BEEST!

/ Two young Bulgarian brothers have to help their uncle collect scrap metal in Belgium. Over the course of one day, their relationship is tested...

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GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Anthony Nti

SCRIPTED BY / Anthony Nti, Chingiz Karibekov CAST / Nerhan Rominof, Marcelo Shibelev LANGUAGE / Bulgarian, Dutch RUNNING TIME / 15’

PRODUCTION / Anthony Nti, RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

BOI

ORIGINAL TITLE / BOI

CONTACT / Anthony Nti / anthony.nti@scarlet.be

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/ Go-getting head of department Eefje takes over a well-integrated team where she is faced with three old hands. She wants to ‘streamline’ the department with modern management techniques, but quickly finds herself skating on thin ice with one of her employees, Frederick.

GENRE / dark comedy, thriller DIRECTED BY / Pieter De Saeger, Joachim Dejonghe SCRIPTED BY / Joachim Dejonghe, Tom Mahy CAST / Jelle De Beule, Clara Cleymans, Goele Derick, Bianca Vanhaverbeke, Linde Carrijn LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 30’ PRODUCTION / De Saeger - Dejonghe YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Pieter De Saeger - Joachim Dejonghe / desaegerdejonghe@gmail.com

/ A cockroach is sleeping peacefully on a leaf in the brush.

Thanks to the interference of a curious hand, our friend ends up in the water.

The cockroach wants to get back to his leaf, but he is surrounded by dangers.

GENRE / adventure, animation DIRECTED BY / Anton Setola SCRIPTED BY / Anton Setola VOICE CAST / Mark Irons LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 6’3” PRODUCTION / Lunanime YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Annemie Degryse / mail@lunanime.be INT’L SALES / Lumière / sales@lumiere.be

BOTTOM-UP

ORIGINAL TITLE / BOTTOM-UP PITCH

THE COCKROACH AND THE SEA

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ORIGINAL TITLE / DE KAKKERLAK EN DE ZEE

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/ When a typical bourgeois couple need to do business in an Arab neighbourhood, they are afraid to park their expensive BMW. They finally get out of their car. But when they run into some local residents, a simple misunderstanding escalates into crippling panic.

GENRE / comedy DIRECTED BY / Koen Van Sande SCRIPTED BY / Koen Van Sande CAST / Peter Van den Eede, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Fouad Oulad Khlie, Briek Lesage, Liesa Naert LANGUAGE / Dutch, Arabic RUNNING TIME / 9’20” PRODUCTION / Cartouche YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Koen Van Sande / koen@cartouche.tv

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/ Admiral Crupus finds himself in dangerous waters when his tyrant Queen realises that her sneaky servant is not only obsessed with her beauty but also believes that she will marry him. But why would she, the Goddess Queen of the Island, ever marry the illegitimate son of an impoverished noble madman and his house pig?

GENRE / comedy, animation DIRECTED BY / Ives Agemans SCRIPTED BY / Ives Agemans CAST / Alex Agnew, Sarah Mannion, David Whiting, Astrid Vereecken, Johan Van Mechelen LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 14’ PRODUCTION / Cyborn YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Ives Agemans / info@cyborn.be

/ To truly live, one must stare Death into the eyes. Danse Macabre is an adventure following a young girl who is terrified of this fact, doing everything in her power to avoid even glancing. A story about fear of the unknown and acceptance of the inevitable, Danse Macabre shows us after all is said and done, things aren’t so bad as they seem.

GENRE / youth DIRECTED BY / Michael Van Ostade SCRIPTED BY / Michael Van Ostade, Andrew Van Ostade CAST / Alix Cale, Kirsten Pieters, Maarten Mertens LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 20’ PRODUCTION / Minds Meet YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Tomas Leyers / info@mindsmeet.be

CRACKS

ORIGINAL TITLE / BARST

CRUPUS

ORIGINAL TITLE / CRUPUS

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DANSE MACABRE

ORIGINAL TITLE / DANSE MACABRE

/ Death of Cupid is a dark and mysterious love story about the freakishly abusive relationship between the passionate Gabriella and manipulative Leon. Expect verbal attacks ‘sans merci’ and a kind of longing love that most people would call insane. Don’t ask why and how.

When passion becomes evil...

GENRE / romantic

/ Dog Days tells the story of three sisters, who each in their own way deal with the sudden disappearance of their father. Past and present merge and dormant emotions surface in the sultry heat. Insects buzz, the atmosphere comes alive and madness grows gently until eventually the storm erupts and the rain arrives.

GENRE / youth, childhood, experimental fiction

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DEATH OF CUPID

DIRECTED BY / Aza Declercq SCRIPTED BY / Aza Declercq

CAST / Aza Declercq, Michelangelo Marchese LANGUAGE / French

RUNNING TIME / 15’ PRODUCTION / AZA YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Aza Declercq / aza@telenet.be

ORIGINAL TITLE / LA MUERTE DE CUPIDO

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DOG DAYS

ORIGINAL TITLE / HONDSDAGEN

/ Remy is 12 years old and lives with his older brother Bruno and their au pair Mihaela. Remy looks up to Bruno who teaches him how to smoke, drink and shoot his father’s shotgun. Despite the age difference, Remy has a secret crush on Mihaela. But things threaten to explode between the brothers when Bruno also takes an interest in her…

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FEEL SAD FOR THE BUNNY ORIGINAL TITLE / FEEL SAD FOR THE BUNNY

/ Nineteen-year-old Jasper tries to confront his first love with his feelings and has to deal with the following consequences.

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DIRECTED BY / Janet van den Brand SCRIPTED BY / Janet van den Brand

CAST / Emma Kleij, Noëlle Hoekstra, Nikki van der Haar, Thomas Wander, Eva De Bleeker LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 19’ PRODUCTION / Janet van den Brand, KASK School of Arts YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Janet van den Brand / janetvdbrand@hotmail.com GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Kenneth Mercken

SCRIPTED BY / Kenneth Mercken, Monica Stan

CAST / Arthur Masson, Yoann Zimmer, Lydia Indjova, Harry Cleven LANGUAGE / French RUNNING TIME / 18’ PRODUCTION / CZAR YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Eurydice Gysel / eurydice.gysel@czar.be

GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Anthony Schatteman

SCRIPTED BY / Anthony Schatteman, Stephen Dhondt CAST / Ezra Fieremans, Maarten Ketels, Lien Maes LANGUAGE / Dutch

RUNNING TIME / 14’30”

PRODUCTION / The New Generation YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Sven Spur / sven@thenewgeneration.be

FOLLOW ME

ORIGINAL TITLE / VOLG MIJ

/ In a utopian society, an experiment to find the elixir of youth goes terribly wrong. A noxious gas escapes, aging everything in its path.

On an evacuating airship loaded with young people, a pregnant woman must hijack the helm and descend back into the gas to save her forsaken lover.

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GERONTOPHOBIA

ORIGINAL TITLE / GERONTOPHOBIA

GENRE / drama, retro science fiction DIRECTED BY / Boris Sverlow

SCRIPTED BY / Boris Sverlow, Johan Verschueren LANGUAGE / English

RUNNING TIME / 15’17”

PRODUCTION / Everstory Productions YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Michael Van Den Eynde / michael.vandeneynde@everstory.be

/ Director Lisa Spilliaert records the growth of a child whose mother might, as it were, have been the filmmaker herself. She had sex with the Japanese man who became a father nine months later. Curious about the baby, she decided to photograph the child at regular intervals.

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GENRE / experimental

DIRECTED BY / Lisa Spilliaert SCRIPTED BY / Lisa Spilliaert

LANGUAGE / Dutch, Japanese RUNNING TIME / 18’19”

PRODUCTION / 2112 vzw YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Lisa Spilliaert / lisaspilliaert@gmail.com

GROWTH RECORD

ORIGINAL TITLE / GROWTH RECORD I, GROWTH RECORD II

/ In a no-man’s-land between everything he left, everything he was and everything that may or may not come, a man wanders alone at night in a hotel. When people from his past life come to meet him, strange encounters take place.

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GUEST

ORIGINAL TITLE / GUEST

/ Thomas’s spiritual journey to India comes to a grinding halt when he runs out of money. With help from his father, he buys a ticket home. Overjoyed by the return of his prodigal son, his father organises a welcoming committee consisting of his new, much younger girlfriend Mathilde, his autistic brotherin-law Hubert and his eldest son Simon.

The latter, an avid body builder, is not keen on the reception his father has in mind...

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HAMPI

ORIGINAL TITLE / HAMPI

PITCH / A man, born of the sea, is in search of his origins. The closer he gets to his goal, the more he loses of himself.

GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Moon Blaisse SCRIPTED BY / Moon Blaisse

CAST / Peter Van den Begin, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Mark Verstraete, Katelijne Verbeke LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 20’08” PRODUCTION / De Wereldvrede YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Bram Versteyhe / post@dewereldvrede.be GENRE / tragicomedy

DIRECTED BY / Pim Algoed SCRIPTED BY / Pim Algoed

CAST / Max Pairon, Arno Moens, Peter Van den Begin, Jan Bijvoet, Günther Lesage, Sarah Vandeursen LANGUAGE / Dutch, English RUNNING TIME / 15’ PRODUCTION / Quetzalcoatl YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / in post-production CONTACT / Marc Goyens / marc@quetzalcoatl.be

GENRE / artistic, animation

DIRECTED BY / Kris Genijn, Pieter Vanluffelen SCRIPTED BY / Kris Genijn, Pieter Vanluffelen LANGUAGE / no dialogues RUNNING TIME / 8’30”

PRODUCTION / S.O.I.L. YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Linda Sterckx / linda@soilart.be

HE & SEA

ORIGINAL TITLE / HE & SEA PITCH /

Questioning his past and future roles, an elderly actor embarks on a road trip in the course of which a history of trauma will unfold.

GENRE / road movie

DIRECTED BY / Juliette Joffé SCRIPTED BY / Juliette Joffé

CAST / Philippe Grand Henry, Lorenzo Tebano LANGUAGE / French

RUNNING TIME / 26’

PRODUCTION / Mountain View YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES ORIGINAL TITLE / LE HÉROS AUX MILLES VISAGES

CONTACT / Gert Verboven / gert@mountainvw.com

/ When an introverted teenage skateboarder falls in love with the girlfriend of one of his best friends, he is pushed to his limits by the people who are most close to him.

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HOLD BACK

GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Steffen Geypens SCRIPTED BY / Steffen Geypens

CAST / Ward Kerremans, Liliana de Vries, Willy Crank, Ramsy Saïdi LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 18’57” PRODUCTION / Visual Creations YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Jimi Abidts / jimi@visualcreations.be

ORIGINAL TITLE / HOLD BACK

/ Little Mohamed and his family live in the small village of Taroudant, Morocco. Eleven of the family members are blind. Living in extreme poverty and excluded from society, they try to keep their hopes and dreams alive.

Mohamed is smart and playful with one dream: to keep his sight. Naïma is the first who pursues higher education. But the constant lack of money makes her dream very uncertain.

GENRE / drama, youth, documentary

/ Jan is being bullied. Ann, raised under a strict regime at home, finds a way out in her own created dream world. And then there is Rob, whose difficulties with the acceptance of his sexuality are being emphasised by his upbringing in a vulnerable environment.

Social media is the only platform where they share their emotions, desires, doubts and insecurities.

GENRE / drama

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INTO DARKNESS

ORIGINAL TITLE / INTO DARKNESS

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NAKED HEARTLAND ORIGINAL TITLE / NAKED HEARTLAND

/ A seasoned Michael Jackson imitator gives his last performance.

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DIRECTED BY / Rachida El Garani SCRIPTED BY / Rachida El Garani LANGUAGE / Arabic

RUNNING TIME / 31’

PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Lai Kin Chang / laikin.chang@ehb.be

DIRECTED BY / Willy Vanderperre SCRIPTED BY / Willy Vanderperre

CAST / Line Pillet, Gilles Van Hecke, Aaron Roggeman, Nicolas Scheltens LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 15’ PRODUCTION / 4 oktober YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Els Voorspoels / els@4oktober.be

GENRE / black tragicomedy

DIRECTED BY / Wim Reygaert SCRIPTED BY / Wim Reygaert

CAST / Hans Sluijs, Goele Derick LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 14’

PRODUCTION / Potemkino YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

NEVERLANDING – A BAD THRILLER ORIGINAL TITLE / NEVERLANDING – A BAD THRILLER

/ The fragile world of a couple is torn apart. What was once dry land is now in two halves, separated by a turbulent sea. Orville remains on a cliff in their home which used to be an integral part of the ruptured lighthouse, in which Imme is now stuck. He has been trying desperately to bring her back, but without success. Meanwhile, Imme continues to send her grief to the other side, using birds. When suddenly her unstable world begins to collapse, Orville must come up with the ultimate solution to rescue her.

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NIMMER

ORIGINAL TITLE / NIMMER

CONTACT / Lize Lefaible / lize@potemkino.com INT’L SALES / Radiator IP Sales /

Ben Vandendaele / ben@radiatorsales.eu

GENRE / drama, animation

DIRECTED BY / Lieven Vanhove SCRIPTED BY / Lieven Vanhove

CAST / Sarah Eisa, Geert Vandyck LANGUAGE / no dialogues RUNNING TIME / 15’

PRODUCTION / Sieber YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / in post-production CONTACT / Sieber Marly / hello@sieber.be

/ A number of cartoonists are being put on trial. The members of the jury don’t hesitate to impose death penalties on the offenders, but one of them refuses to accept his fate…

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GENRE / satire, animation

DIRECTED BY / Kris Borghs SCRIPTED BY / Kris Borghs

VOICE CAST / Herwig Ilegems LANGUAGE / no dialogues RUNNING TIME / 6’40”

PRODUCTION / S.O.I.L. YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Linda Sterckx / linda@soilart.be

NO OFFENSE

ORIGINAL TITLE / NO OFFENSE

/ Two cellmates face yet another day together in prison. They do whatever they can to relieve their boredom, resulting in physically and verbally transgressive behaviour.

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GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Harm Dens SCRIPTED BY / Harm Dens

CAST / Stefaan Degand, Titus De Voogdt LANGUAGE / Dutch

RUNNING TIME / 15’

PRODUCTION / Quetzalcoatl YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Marc Goyens / marc@quetzalcoatl.be

NOTHINGNESS

ORIGINAL TITLE / NIEMENDAL

/ In a misty white landscape, an endless procession of people roams. They are characters from the three largest processions of Flanders and look like figures from old Biblical movies. The men are wearing fake beards, dusty robes and long-haired wigs; the women have exaggerated make-up and wear long robes and burkas.

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ONE OF US

GENRE / experimental

DIRECTED BY / Koen Theys SCRIPTED BY / Koen Theys LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 15’

PRODUCTION / Escautville YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Vincent Stroep / vincent.stroep@escautville.org

ORIGINAL TITLE / ONE OF US

/ When, out of the blue, Martin shows an unexpected interest in the Islamic religion, his best friend Simon becomes confused. The changes are abrupt and radical, as too is the sudden distance in their friendship.

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GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Emilie Verhamme SCRIPTED BY / Emilie Verhamme LANGUAGE / French

RUNNING TIME / 18’

PRODUCTION / Holden Wallace YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Emilie Verhamme / emilie.verhamme@gmail.com

PHARAOHS WITHOUT GOLD ORIGINAL TITLE / FARAO’S ZONDER GOUD

/ A series of events occur when a hunter finds a dead body in the woods. Strangers appear and manipulate the crime scene several times. The hunter doesn’t understand the strange spectacle, ending up entangled in a labyrinth in which he will put his own life at stake for the unknown corpse.

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THE RECONSTRUCTION ORIGINAL TITLE / DE RECONSTRUCTIE

GENRE / experimental fiction

DIRECTED BY / Pieter Dumoulin, Timeau De Keyser SCRIPTED BY / Pieter Dumoulin, Timeau De Keyser CAST / Jan Bijvoet, Hans Mortelmans, Max Pairon LANGUAGE / no dialogues RUNNING TIME / 20’

PRODUCTION / Lunanime YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Sara Maes / sara@lunanime.be INT’L SALES / Lumière / sales@lumiere.be

/ Hevi, a teenage Yazidi girl, tries to survive with her mother and younger sister in war-torn Iraq. As armed men ravage the countryside, the family spends their days hiding in a cave near their abandoned village. In the midst of disaster, young Hevi is faced with a heartbreaking decision.

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SHADOW

GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Bülent Öztürk SCRIPTED BY / Bülent Öztürk

CAST / Xwiska Mezin Biseng Ünver, Dayik Pelin Batu, Xwiska Piçuk Rojïn Gür LANGUAGE / Kurdish RUNNING TIME / 17’ PRODUCTION / Minds Meet YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Tomas Leyers / info@mindsmeet.be

ORIGINAL TITLE / SÎ

/ A portrait of a man with bipolar disorder, as seen through the eyes of his 11-year-old daughter. The film becomes a bittersweet adventure with two unconventional heroes set on a path of innocence and crude behaviour.

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GENRE / drama, comedy

DIRECTED BY / Anouk Fortunier SCRIPTED BY / Anouk Fortunier

CAST / Tibo Vandenborre, Elsa Houben LANGUAGE / French

RUNNING TIME / 14’37”

PRODUCTION / Roxanne Sarkozi, LUCA School of Arts YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Roxanne Sarkozi / sarkozi.roxanne@gmail.com

STRANGE BIRD

ORIGINAL TITLE / DRÔLE D’OISEAU

/ People aren’t important - or are they? This is the question that plays on the mind of Krolik, a young man with Down Syndrome. He has two brothers who are very different: Lukasz, the eldest, spends his days racing cars, while Michal is disinterested in his brother’s world and is only passing through. Will Krolik and his brothers ever really be together?

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SUSPENSION

ORIGINAL TITLE / ZAWIESZENIE

ORIGINAL TITLE / SWEET DUMPLINGS

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SCRIPTED BY / Philip James McGoldrick

CAST / Michał Włodarczyk, Jurek Godawski, Kamil Grenda, Alexandra Radwanska LANGUAGE / Polish RUNNING TIME / 10’ PRODUCTION / Bekke Films YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Ben Vandendaele / ben@radiatorsales.eu INT’L SALES / Radiator IP Sales / Ben Vandendaele / ben@radiatorsales.eu GENRE / drama

/ In this filmic essay set in a sleepy holiday village in the North of France, the filmmaker takes the viewer on her personal search for peace and quietness. She uses the camera as a tool to try and form an understanding of her surroundings. Her walks are accompanied by a dialogue between the filmmaker and an actress, reflecting on hope, changes, borders and film.

GENRE / filmic essay

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THERE ARE NO WHALES IN FRANCE

DIRECTED BY / Philip James McGoldrick

/ Yin and Lee are making dumplings in the kitchen of their restaurant. Yin is kneading dough; Lee is cutting meat and vegetables to make the filling. They are preparing the favourite food of their daughter Tim Tim, who passed away three years before. While they are cautiously folding the dumplings, they are thinking of the beautiful and painful moments. In silence... each with their own memories.

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SWEET DUMPLINGS

GENRE / coming of age

ORIGINAL TITLE / IN FRANKRIJK ZIJN GEEN WALVISSEN

DIRECTED BY / Lai Kin Chang SCRIPTED BY / Lai Kin Chang

CAST / Lisa Man, Wang Tien-Sing LANGUAGE / Chinese RUNNING TIME / 12’

PRODUCTION / Zonderling YEAR / 2016

PRODUCTION STATUS / in post-production

CONTACT / Bart Maes / bart@zonderling.be

DIRECTED BY / Eva van Tongeren

SCRIPTED BY / Eva van Tongeren, Evgenia Brendes LANGUAGE / Dutch

RUNNING TIME / 19’29”

PRODUCTION / Eva van Tongeren,

LUCA School of Arts

YEAR / 2015

PRODUCTION STATUS / available

CONTACT / Eva van Tongeren / eva.van.tongeren@gmail.com

/ Ella and Fien - young and old - meet each other in ‘Lifemotion’, a place where people come together to experience their last days in this world.

Just before Ella and Fien’s lives are about to end, they develop a strange but sincere friendship in contrast to the cold world around them.

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THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR ORIGINAL TITLE / THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR

/ Axelle, a promising young tennis player, is left in increasing desperation when she learns that her attentive coach Jeremy has been detained for further questioning. While rumours and emotions fly, Axelle secretly harbours her deep-felt emotions awaiting their reunion. When Jeremy is permanently removed from her life, Axelle must accept that her silence was not enough to save her hero. For the first time in her life she experiences the loss of love...

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UMPIRE

ORIGINAL TITLE / UMPIRE

Flanders Audiovisual Region

GENRE / drama

DIRECTED BY / Domien Huyghe SCRIPTED BY / Domien Huyghe

CAST / Gilda De Bal, Violet Braeckman, Raf Walschaerts, Sam Bogaerts, Jaela Cole LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 20’ PRODUCTION / Earlybirds Films YEAR / 2016 PRODUCTION STATUS / in post-production CONTACT / Anastassia Oudovitchenko / anastassia@earlybirds-films.be GENRE / coming-of-age, drama, tragedy, portrait DIRECTED BY / Leonardo Van Dijl SCRIPTED BY / Leonardo Van Dijl

CAST / Benjamin Ramon, Lilith Kempynck, Mirthe Tavernier, Alexandra Lymarev, Laurence Roothooft, Ivana Jozic LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 17’48” PRODUCTION / Leonardo Van Dijl YEAR / 2015 PRODUCTION STATUS / available CONTACT / Leonardo Van Dijl / vandijls@gmail.com

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