CANNES 2019
short
PITCH / An intimate, poetic portrait of Nastasia, a charismatic young dancer who is about to give birth for the first time.
DANCE OF LIFE
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Eva Küpper SCRIPTED BY / Eva Küpper
CAST / Nastasia Stein, Rémy Bombled, Isaac Stein-Van Hoof, Eric Thézé, Janniek Wester LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 26’ PRODUCTION / Ellen De Waele / Serendipity Films YEAR / 2019 CONTACT / ellen@serendipityfilms.be
ORIGINAL TITLE / DANCE OF LIFE
PITCH / As the sun rises above a forgotten pyramid, Mahmoud saddles his horse Asefa beside a desert race track. This is how they prepare for their daily training. Friday, all eyes will be on them. Mahmoud senses the fear inside him. Will he be able to win the race one more time?
GENRE / documentary, human interest DIRECTED BY / Grégoire Verbeke SCRIPTED BY / Grégoire Verbeke LANGUAGE / Arabic
RUNNING TIME / 25’
PRODUCTION / Grégoire Verbeke YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / verbekegregoire@gmail.com SALES / Some Shorts / Wouter Jansen /
info@someshorts.com
I FEEL YOUR EYES ON ME ORIGINAL TITLE / I FEEL YOUR EYES ON ME
PITCH / A filmmaker discovers a suitcase full of 16mm footage from a mysterious doctor who filmed all kind of insects for nearly 40 years, taking notes and dissecting them. Why such a morbid fascination for those little creatures?
GENRE / documentary
PITCH / A film exploring the archives, paintings, drawings and personal objects of Philippe Vandenberg - an immersion into his life and into the abyss of artistic creation.
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Antoine Fontaine SCRIPTED BY / Antoine Fontaine RUNNING TIME / 24’
PRODUCTION / LUCA School of Arts YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / antoine_fontaine@hotmail.fr
INSECTOPEDIA
ORIGINAL TITLE / INSECTOPEDIA
DIRECTED BY / Guillaume Vandenberghe, Neel Cockx SCRIPTED BY / Peter Verhelst, Neel Cockx CAST / Johan Leysen (narrator) LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 20’
PRODUCTION / Bart Van Langendonck,
Vincent Metzinger / Savage Film
YEAR / 2019
KAMIKAZE
ORIGINAL TITLE / KAMIKAZE
CONTACT / Nils Dezaeger / nils@savagefilm.be SALES / L’agence belge du court métrage /
info@agenceducourt.be
PITCH / On a Brussels street, day labourers are looking for a job. In small groups, they wait for hours hoping for someone to pick them up. When they are lucky, they get dropped off at a construction site or field; but employers pay small salaries and no social security is provided.
GENRE / experimental documentary DIRECTED BY / Ben De Raes SCRIPTED BY / Ben De Raes
LANGUAGE / French, Romanian, Pular, Arabic RUNNING TIME / 16’
PRODUCTION / Ellen De Waele, Elisa Heene /
Serendipity Films
YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / elisa@serendipityfilms.be
WAITING WORKING HOURS ORIGINAL TITLE / WAITING WORKING HOURS
mid-length
PITCH / A mid-length documentary combining found footage, animation, home videos and interviews with the filmmaker’s mother and fellow contemporaries to explore his childhood diagnosis of ADHD.
DIRECTED BY / Bram Cartigny SCRIPTED BY / Bram Cartigny LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 50’
PRODUCTION / Brecht Van Elslande / Animal Tank YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / brecht@animaltank.be
1997
ORIGINAL TITLE / 1997
PITCH / The search of four filmmakers for a way to portray the city of Kinshasa. Through filming artistic performances in public spaces, they paint a provocative picture of Kinshasa and its relations with the rest of the world.
DIRECTED BY / Anne Reijniers, Rob Jacobs, Nizar Saleh,
Paul Shemisi
SCRIPTED BY / Anne Reijniers, Rob Jacobs, Nizar Saleh,
Paul Shemisi
RUNNING TIME / 58’
PRODUCTION / Koen Bleuzé / De Imagerie YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / annereijniers@gmail.com
FAIRE-PART
ORIGINAL TITLE / FAIRE-PART
PITCH / A poetic documentary about identity, migration and transitory memories.
GENRE / creative documentary DIRECTED BY / Zaïde Bil SCRIPTED BY / Zaïde Bil
LANGUAGE / Dutch, Sranan Tongo RUNNING TIME / 41’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / Dokma Film / info@dokma.be
I REMEMBER
ORIGINAL TITLE / MEMRE YU
PITCH / Mitten follows the final weeks of rehearsal of Mitten wir im Leben sind, a performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, her company Rosas and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, based on the six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach.
MITTEN
ORIGINAL TITLE / MITTEN
DIRECTED BY / Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes SCRIPTED BY / Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes
CAST / Boštjan Antončič, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker,
Marie Goudot, Julien Monty, Michaël Pomero & Jean-Guihen Queyras LANGUAGE / French, English RUNNING TIME / 53’ PRODUCTION / Ruben Desiere, Rasmus Van Heddeghem / Accattone films YEAR / 2019 CONTACT / rasmus@accattonefilms.be
PRODUCTION
feature-length
PITCH / When two shy young men start to work in an all-inclusive hotel, a new, absurd world opens up to them. Colourful bikinis, an abundance of food and the management’s demands ensure they will never be the same again.
DIRECTED BY / Volkan Üce
PITCH / A documentary exploring the architecture of Antwerp’s Left Bank, looking both to the past and focusing on city development of the future.
DIRECTED BY / Maarten Bernaerts
SCRIPTED BY / Volkan Üce
LANGUAGE / Kurdish, Turkish, English RUNNING TIME / 75’
PRODUCTION / Emmy Oost / Cassette for timescapes STATUS / in production, ETA 2020
CONTACT / emmy@timescapes.be
ALL-IN
ORIGINAL TITLE / ALL-IN
SCRIPTED BY / Maarten Bernaerts LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 70’
POST-PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION / Bram Conjaerts, Barbara Dyck /
Diplodokus
STATUS / in post-production, ETA June 2019 CONTACT / maarten@diplodokus.be
ANNAPOLIS, GIANT CITY ORIGINAL TITLE / ANNAPOLIS, GIANT CITY
PITCH / A creative documentary exploring the subject of the body and illness in a philosophical way.
DIRECTED BY / Ira A. Goryainova SCRIPTED BY / Ira A. Goryainova RUNNING TIME / 63’
PRODUCTION / Peter Krüger / Inti Films POST-PRODUCTION
STATUS / in post-production YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / peter@intifilms.com
BILE
ORIGINAL TITLE / BILE
PITCH / A behind-the-scenes view on the Brexit negotiations over a period of two years - following Guy Verhofstadt, lead negotiator of the European Parliament.
DIRECTED BY / Lode Desmet SCRIPTED BY / Lode Desmet
LANGUAGE / Dutch, English, French RUNNING TIME / 120’
PRODUCTION / Hans Everaert / Menuetto YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / hans.everaert@menuettofilm.be
BREXIT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE / BREXIT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
PITCH / This documentary offers a unique and intimate insight into the way the world-famous jazz orchestra works and how it is constantly striving for innovation.
DIRECTED BY / Guy Fellemans SCRIPTED BY / Guy Fellemans
LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, English RUNNING TIME / 85’
PRODUCTION / Xavier Rombaut / Bulletproof Cupid STATUS / in post-production YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / info@bulletproofcupid.be
BRUSSELS JAZZ ORCHESTRA: KEEP IT FRESH! ORIGINAL TITLE / BRUSSELS JAZZ ORCHESTRA: KEEP IT FRESH!
PITCH / A documentary about two men - Ben Felten, who wanted to be the fastest blind motorcycle rider in the world - and Kevin Magee, a former grand prix champion who is determined to help him achieve his dream.
DIRECTED BY / Eva Küpper
PITCH / An intimate portrait of two young boys growing up together, the documentary explores the world through their eyes. Hero is a story about childhood and most importantly brotherhood.
DIRECTED BY / Janet van den Brand, Timothy Wennekes SCRIPTED BY / Janet van den Brand, Timothy Wennekes LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 75’ PRODUCTION / Maarten Bernaerts, Barbara Dyck / Diplodokus STATUS / in production, ETA Autumn 2021 CONTACT / maarten@diplodokus.be
PITCH / We follow Lubnan, a young man newly arrived in Belgium from Iraq and his struggle to get his papers - a process full of despair but also resilience and humour.
DIRECTED BY / Gwendolyn Lootens
SCRIPTED BY / Eva Küpper LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 90’
PRODUCTION / Ellen De Waele / Serendipity Films YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / Elisa Heene / elisa@serendipityfilms.be
DARK RIDER
IN PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE / DARK RIDER
HERO
ORIGINAL TITLE / HELD
SCRIPTED BY / Gwendolyn Lootens LANGUAGE / English, Arabic, Dutch RUNNING TIME / 80’
PRODUCTION / Bart Van Langendonck / Savage Film YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / bart@savagefilm.be
ME MISS ME
ORIGINAL TITLE / ME MISS ME
PITCH / In a small village in Thailand, local carer Pomm works in a centre for Europeans afflicted by Alzheimer’s at the same time as attempting to sort out her own life as a struggling single mother.
DIRECTED BY / Kristof Bilsen
PITCH / A documentary about a controversial radio station in Burundi (Radio Publique Africaine) and its director, Bob Rugurika, in the run-up to the elections of 2015.
DIRECTED BY / Manno Lanssens
SCRIPTED BY / Kristof Bilsen, Xan Márquez Caneda LANGUAGE / Thai, Swiss German, English RUNNING TIME / 80’ (52’ TV version)
PRODUCTION / Kristof Bilsen / Limerick Films YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / hello@limerickfilms.com
MOTHER
ORIGINAL TITLE / MOTHER
SCRIPTED BY / Manno Lanssens
LANGUAGE / Kirundi, French, English RUNNING TIME / 80’
PRODUCTION / Ellen De Waele / Serendipity Films YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / ellen@serendipityfilms.be
SALES / Rushlake Media / lena@rushlake-media.com
ON AIR
ORIGINAL TITLE / ON AIR
PITCH / A portrait of the largest growing punk community in the world, which thrives - despite the odds - in Indonesia.
DIRECTED BY / Jimmy Hendrickx
SCRIPTED BY / Jimmy Hendrickx, Kristian Van Der Heyden LANGUAGE / Indonesian RUNNING TIME / 66’
PRODUCTION / Kristian Van Der Heyden /
Harald House Belgium
YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / office@haraldhouse.com
A PUNK DAYDREAM ORIGINAL TITLE / LAMUNAN OI!
PITCH / A film about aging, focusing on 80-year-old Leo and asking ‘What would you do in the third and final act of your life?’
DIRECTED BY / Mieke Struyve, Lotte Stoops SCRIPTED BY / Lotte Stoops, Mieke Struyve
LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, English, Japanese, Portuguese, Greek RUNNING TIME / 79’ PRODUCTION / Bart Van Langendonck / Savage Film YEAR / 2019 CONTACT / bart@savagefilm.be
THIRD ACT
ORIGINAL TITLE / THIRD ACT
POST-PRODUCTION
PITCH / In the Mojave Desert, not far from Los Angeles, lies the unfinished city of California City. Lashay Warren (25) left behind his turbulent hometown past to build a new life in the grid of thousands of crumbled streets in California City.
VICTORIA
DIRECTED BY / Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer,
Isabelle Tollenaere
SCRIPTED BY / Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer,
Isabelle Tollenaere LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 70’ PRODUCTION / Corine Appelmans / Caviar YEAR / 2019 STATUS / in post-production CONTACT / dimitri.verbeeck@caviar.tv
ORIGINAL TITLE / VICTORIA
POST-PRODUCTION
PITCH / The story of Adriaan Raemdonck, who over 50 years ago started the Black Panther gallery in Antwerp and still runs it today. An intimate view into a half century of visual arts in Flanders and abroad.
DIRECTED BY / Jacques Servaes SCRIPTED BY / Jacques Servaes LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 80’
PRODUCTION / Hans Everaert / Menuetto YEAR / 2019
STATUS / in post-production
CONTACT / hans.everaert@menuettofilm.be
WORKING WITH PAINTERS ORIGINAL TITLE / IK SCHILDER MET SCHILDERS
series
PITCH / A five-part documentary series about the Rwandan genocide in 1994 explored in five personal stories.
DIRECTED BY / Johannes Bucher, Mik Cops,
Steven Crombez, Stev Van Thielen
SCRIPTED BY / Harald Hauben, Mik Cops,
Joost Vandensande, Steven Crombez
LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, Kinyarwanda, English RUNNING TIME / 5 x 45’
PRODUCTION / Sofie Despeer / De chinezen YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / Sofie Despeer / sofie.despeer@dechinezen.be
BACK TO RWANDA
ORIGINAL TITLE / RWANDA 25 JAAR LATER
POST-PRODUCTION
PITCH / As true watchmen, for more than a century, the people within the walls of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp guard and protect us against invisible enemies that threaten world health .
DIRECTED BY / Jeremy De Ryckere
PITCH / In this documentary series farmers and migrant workers start a dialogue in order to understand how, over 50 years, Almerìa grew from an empty desert to a white, plastic kingdom and thereon to an exhausted wasteland.
DIRECTED BY / Moon Blaisse
SCRIPTED BY / Nore Maatala
LANGUAGE / Dutch, English, French RUNNING TIME / 4 x 50’
PRODUCTION / Geronimo
STATUS / in post-production, ETA November 2019
CONTACT / Jasper Moeyaert / jasper@geronimo.be
INFECT
SCRIPTED BY / Moon Blaisse, Thomas Bellinck LANGUAGE / Spanish, Moroccan, Bambara RUNNING TIME / 2 x 52’ (90’ film version)
PRODUCTION / Emmy Oost / Cassette for timescapes STATUS / in production, ETA 2020
CONTACT / emmy@timescapes.be
THE MIRACLE OF ALMERÍA ORIGINAL TITLE / HET MIRAKEL VAN ALMERÍA
DIRECTED BY / Bas Devos CAST / Saadia Bentaïeb
CANNES 2019
PRODUCTION / Quetzalcoatl YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / Marc Goyens / marc@quetzalcoatl.be
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SCRIPTED BY / Willem Wallyn
PITCH / An intimate, poetic portrait of Nastasia, a charismatic young dancer who is about to give birth for the first time.
short
GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Willem Wallyn
CAST / Maaike Neuville, Barbara Sarafian, Joke Devynck, Tom Vermeir LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 120’
PRODUCTION / Willem Wallyn / W2
STATUS / in post-production, ETA Fall 2019
CONTACT / Willem Wallyn / willem.wallyn@mac.com
ALL OF US
DANCE OF LIFE
ORIGINAL TITLE / ALL OF US
GENRE / documentary DIRECTED BY / Eva Küpper SCRIPTED BY / Eva Küpper CAST / Nastasia Stein, Rémy Bombled, Isaac Stein-Van Hoof, Eric Thézé, Janniek Wester LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 26’ PRODUCTION / Ellen De Waele / Serendipity Films YEAR / 2019 CONTACT / ellen@serendipityfilms.be
ORIGINAL TITLE / DANCE OF LIFE PITCH / How the last King of the
Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.
GENRE / dramatic comedy DIRECTED BY / Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens SCRIPTED BY / Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens CAST / Peter Van den Begin, Lucie Debay, Udo Kier, Geraldine Chaplin, Titus De Voogdt, Bruno Georis
PITCH / As the sun rises above a
forgotten pyramid, Mahmoud saddles his horse Asefa beside a desert race track. This is how they prepare for their daily training. Friday, all eyes will be on them. Mahmoud senses the fear inside him. Will he be able to win the race one more time?
LANGUAGE / English, Dutch, French, German RUNNING TIME / 97’
PRODUCTION / Bo Films
STATUS / in post-production, ETA Summer 2019 CONTACT / Peter Brosens / peter@bofilms.be
THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR ORIGINAL TITLE / THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR
GENRE / documentary, human interest DIRECTED BY / Grégoire Verbeke
be happy. But when she discovers a year-long affair involving her parents and her husband turns out to be very close with a colleague, she begins to doubt herself. A phone call bearing bad news is the last straw.
THE BEST OF DORIEN B.
ORIGINAL TITLE / THE BEST OF DORIEN B.
GENRE / dramedy
DIRECTED BY / Anke Blondé
SCRIPTED BY / Anke Blondé,
PITCH / A filmmaker discovers a
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suitcase full of 16mm footage from a mysterious doctor who filmed all kind of insects for nearly 40 years, taking notes and dissecting them. Why such a morbid fascination for those little creatures?
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem CAST / Kim Snauwaert, Jelle De Beule, Katelijne Verbeke, Dirk van Dijck LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 100’ PRODUCTION / Dries Phlypo, Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem / A Private View STATUS / 2019 CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / dries@aprivateview.be SALES / Be For Films / pamela@beforfilms.com
GENRE / creative documentary
ORIGINAL TITLE / MELI MELO
PRODUCTION / Grégoire Verbeke YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / verbekegregoire@gmail.com
SALES / Some Shorts / Wouter Jansen / info@
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Antoine Fontaine SCRIPTED BY / Antoine Fontaine RUNNING TIME / 24’
identity, migration and transitory memories.
DIRECTED BY / Zaïde Bil SCRIPTED BY / Zaïde Bil
LANGUAGE / Dutch, Sranan Tongo RUNNING TIME / 41’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / Dokma Film / info@dokma.be
I REMEMBER
ORIGINAL TITLE / MEMRE YU
PRODUCTION / LUCA School of Arts YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / antoine_fontaine@hotmail.fr
PITCH / A film exploring the archives,
paintings, drawings and personal objects of Philippe Vandenberg - an immersion into his life and into the abyss of artistic creation.
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Guillaume Vandenberghe, Neel Cockx SCRIPTED BY / Peter Verhelst, Neel Cockx CAST / Johan Leysen (narrator) LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 20’
PRODUCTION / Bart Van Langendonck,
Vincent Metzinger / Savage Film
YEAR / 2019
CONTACT / Nils Dezaeger / nils@savagefilm.be SALES / L’agence belge du court métrage /
info@agenceducourt.be
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PITCH / A poetic documentary about
THE MISH MASH
LANGUAGE / Arabic
ORIGINAL TITLE / INSECTOPEDIA
ORIGINAL TITLE / KAMIKAZE
CANNES 2019 I Booth Rivièra A2
GENRE / comedy, drama, realism DIRECTED BY / Julian Wolf SCRIPTED BY / Julian Wolf CAST / Arber Aliaj, Samy Filali, Tine Roggeman, Ashley Ntangu LANGUAGE / Arabic, Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 19’ PRODUCTION / LUCA School of Arts YEAR / 2018 CONTACT / Julian Wolf / ssxwolf@hotmail.com SALES / Dalton Distribution / info@daltondistribution.be
a big city, whereby they spend more time talking about their futures than actually working on them.
INSECTOPEDIA
KAMIKAZE
flandersimage.com
PITCH / A story of disaffected youth in
ORIGINAL TITLE / WAITHOOD
RUNNING TIME / 25’
ORIGINAL TITLE / ةياج ةفصاع PITCH / Dorien has every reason to
GENRE / tragic comedy DIRECTED BY / Louisiana Mees SCRIPTED BY / Louisiana Mees CAST / Jacques Simha, Viky Maidanoglou, Christos Kavallaris, Yannis Sanidas, Maro Prasino LANGUAGE / Greek RUNNING TIME / 21’ PRODUCTION / KASK School of Arts YEAR / 2018 CONTACT / louisianamees@gmail.com
WAITHOOD
SCRIPTED BY / Grégoire Verbeke
someshorts.com
I FEEL YOUR EYES ON ME
SALES / Be For Films / pamela@beforfilms.com
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PITCH / A group of young non-actors from Athens yearn to forget their idle futures while playing in luxurious Airbnb’s. Nevertheless, their fate catches up with them.
ORIGINAL TITLE / BAMBOE
LANGUAGE / French, Dutch RUNNING TIME / 84’
GHOST TROPIC
of terminally ill patients led by a therapist without any experience.
GENRE / coming-of-age DIRECTED BY / Flo Van Deuren SCRIPTED BY / Flo Van Deuren CAST / Lotte Peeters, Fleur Van Bergen, Roos Zijlstra, Anne Coopman, Anne-Sophie Marx, Pauline Bas, Lauren Van Houtven, Yenthe Van Houtven, Frits Deruyter, Leonardo De Souza LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 19’ PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2018 CONTACT / vandeurenflo@gmail.com
BAMBOE
SCRIPTED BY / Bas Devos
ORIGINAL TITLE / GHOST TROPIC
PITCH / The story of a self-help group
PITCH / A group of 13-year-old girls enjoy their summer days on an abandoned piece of land. But then a mysterious man turns up. CINÉFONDATION
GENRE / drama
FLANDERS WILDCARDS / SFC
QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS
58-year-old Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her nocturnal journey she finds herself compelled to ask for help from the other inhabitants of the night.
CANNES 2019
FLANDERS WILDCARDS
PITCH / After a long day at work,
CANNES 2019
FLANDERS WILDCARDS / SFC
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ORIGINAL TITLE / BESMET
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