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THE ARDENNESORIGINAL TITLE / D’ARDENNEN
BELGIAN RHAPSODYORIGINAL TITLE / BRABANÇONNE
BELGICAORIGINAL TITLE / BELGICA
BLACKORIGINAL TITLE / BLACK
PITCH / Brothers Dave and Kenneth both bear the scars of a shared past but handle it very differently. Their love for the same woman leads to a confrontation that climaxes when they must travel to the Ardennes to bury a corpse.
PITCH / Two brass bands, the Flemish ‘St. Cecilia’ and Walloon ‘En Avant’, are contenders for national pre-selection for the final of the European Union’s Best Brass Band contest. The Walloons are blown into the final by Hugues, their exceptionally talented trumpet player; while Willy of the Flemish band hits the highest note after the band’s final chord, but afterwards drops dead on stage. But Elke, daughter of St. Cecilia’s conductor, has an idea about how to beat the competition.
PITCH / Two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success in the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene.
PITCH / When Mavela, a member of notorious youth gang Black Bronx, falls madly in love with a boy from a rival gang, she is forced to choose between loyalty and love. This will have dramatic repercussions.
GENRE / thriller, dramaCAST / Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Veerle BaetensDIRECTED BY / Robin ProntSCRIPTED BY / Robin Pront, Jeroen PercevalPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage FilmLANGUAGE / Dutch, FrenchRUNNING TIME / tbaYEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / [email protected] / Winter 2015/6
GENRE / musical comedyCAST / Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Arthur Dupont, Tom AudenaertDIRECTED BY / Vincent BalSCRIPTED BY / Vincent Bal, Pierre De ClercqPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / EyeworksLANGUAGE / Dutch, FrenchRUNNING TIME / 95’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / [email protected]’L SALES / Be for Films / Pamela Leu / [email protected]
GENRE / dramaCAST / Tom Vermeir, Stef AertsDIRECTED BY / Felix van GroeningenSCRIPTED BY / Felix van Groeningen, Arne SierensPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / MenuetLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 105’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Dirk Impens / [email protected]’L SALES / The Match Factory / [email protected] / Fall 2015
GENRE / action, dramaCAST / Aboubakr Bensaihi, Martha Canga Antonio, Emmanuel TahonDIRECTED BY / Adil El Arbi, Bilall FallahSCRIPTED BY / Nele Meirhaeghe, Adil El Arbi, Bilall FallahPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / CaviarLANGUAGE / French, Arabic, Lingala, DutchRUNNING TIME / 90’ (tbc)YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Charlotte Van Hassel / [email protected] / Fall 2015
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CAFARDORIGINAL TITLE / CAFARD
PITCH / 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.
GENRE / animation, dramaVOICE CAST / Wim Willaert, Dinara Drukarova, Sebastien Dewaele, Maarten KetelsDIRECTED BY / Jan BultheelSCRIPTED BY / Jan BultheelPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Tondo FilmsLANGUAGE / Dutch, French, English, Russian, Chinese, Mongolian RUNNING TIME / 84’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Arielle Sleutel / [email protected] / Fall 2015
CAFÉ DERBYORIGINAL TITLE / CAFÉ DERBY
PITCH / 1985: Georges is a born stallholder who can sell anything to anyone. Always. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium, he senses his chance as tens of thousands of believers will be attending a Holy Mass and the adjacent Café Derby is up for rent. Georges is convinced that a fortune can be made there, but his world-weary wife and five children have seen it all before…
GENRE / coming-of-ageCAST / Chloë Daxhelet, Wim Opbrouck, Monic HendrickxDIRECTED BY / Lenny Van WesemaelSCRIPTED BY / Lenny Van Wesemael, Geert VerbanckPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / MenuetLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 90’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Dirk Impens / [email protected] / Spring 2015
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATOORIGINAL TITLE / EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
PITCH / In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death - happy to create their effects in cinema but unhappy to suffer them in life.
GENRE / dramaCAST / Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Lisa OwenDIRECTED BY / Peter GreenawaySCRIPTED BY / Peter GreenawayCO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / PotemkinoLANGUAGE / EnglishRUNNING TIME / 105’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Peter De Maegd / [email protected]’L SALES / Films Boutique / [email protected]
FALLOWORIGINAL TITLE / BRAK
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.
GENRE / dramaCAST / Tibo Vandenborre, Aurora MarionDIRECTED BY / Laurent Van LanckerSCRIPTED BY / Elvis Peeters, Laurent Van LanckerPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / PolymorfilmsLANGUAGE / Dutch, English, FrenchRUNNING TIME / 75’ (tbc)YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Ellen Meiresonne / [email protected] / Summer 2015
BROTHERORIGINAL TITLE / BROER
PITCH / Grace, an extravagantly rich Irish woman, wants to revive a 20-year-old love affair. Yvo travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his dead brother Yvan. Yvo wants to steal Yvan’s money and former lover, posthumously taking revenge on the brother whom he hated so much.
GENRE / dramaCAST / Koen De Bouw, Titus De Voogdt, Koen De Graeve, Udo KierDIRECTED BY / Geoffrey EnthovenSCRIPTED BY / Pierre De ClercqPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Fobic FilmsLANGUAGE / Dutch, EnglishRUNNING TIME / 115’ (tbc)YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Mariano Vanhoof / [email protected]’L SALES / Films Boutique / [email protected] / Fall 2015
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THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENEDORIGINAL TITLE / THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
PITCH / A group of Kuchi children live in a mine-field surrounding Bagram airforce base, digging out anti-personnel mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers in a lapis lazuli mine. The trajectory of the blue gemstones goes towards Tajikistan and China through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children escape into personal fantasies and dreams.
GENRE / documentaryDIRECTED BY / Pieter-Jan De PueSCRIPTED BY / Pieter-Jan De PuePRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage FilmLANGUAGE / English, Farsi, Pashtu, Waghi, ...RUNNING TIME / tbaYEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck /[email protected] / Fall 2015
LIEBLING ORIGINAL TITLE / LIEBLING
PITCH / Remsk and Sarah are a neurotic, passionate couple. He is a struggling writer who carries the weight of the world on his shoulders; she is mentally unstable and addicted to weed. Bill is an actor with an ego while Nicky constantly sucks up to her husband. At a party in Antwerp, Remsk was so drunk that he invited Bill and Nicky to join them on their vacation in France where his father owns a villa, assuming they would never come. Then Bill calls Remsk to say they are on their way.
GENRE / comedyCAST / Steve Aernouts, Ellen Schoenaerts, Bert Haelvoet, Minke KruyverDIRECTED BY / Ellen SchoenaertsSCRIPTED BY / Steve Aernouts, Ellen SchoenaertsPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage FilmLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 80’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck /[email protected]
LIFE ACCORDING TO NINOORIGINAL TITLE / HET LEVEN VOLGENS NINO
PITCH / After his mother’s death, eight-year-old Nino skips school, stops washing and eats crisps for breakfast. At first it seems great fun, but the boy comes to miss the attention and affection from his dad and his brother. When he discovers he can talk to animals, his pet rabbit Bobby proves invaluable.
GENRE / family filmCAST / Koen De Graeve, Rohan Timmermans, Rifka LodeizenDIRECTED BY / Simone van DusseldorpSCRIPTED BY / Urszula AntoniakCO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage FilmLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 81’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / [email protected]’L SALES / Attraction Distribution / [email protected]
GALLOPING MINDORIGINAL TITLE / GALLOPING MIND
PITCH / When a nurse discovers that her partner is the father of a new-born twin, she decides to steal the baby girl and separate her from her brother, who subsequently grows up in a street gang. Ten years later, however, the children’s paths cross. They are attracted to each other but ultimately discover that neither of them is able to escape their past.
GENRE / dramaCAST / Jerry Killick, Imola Kezdi, Orsi Toth, Natali BroodsDIRECTED BY / Wim VandekeybusSCRIPTED BY / Wim VandekeybusPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage FilmLANGUAGE / English, HungarianRUNNING TIME / 100’ (tbc)YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / [email protected] / Fall 2015
LEE & CINDY C.ORIGINAL TITLE / LEE & CINDY C.
PITCH / When two totally different people have completely different musical tastes, there is always a Plan B: loving one another. A romantic tragicomedy about rock dreams, crooner passion and an unpredictable love story.
GENRE / romantic comedyCAST / Bert Verbeke, Nathalie Meskens, Ann Van den BroeckDIRECTED BY / Stany CretsSCRIPTED BY / Stany CretsPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / EyeworksLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / tbaYEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / [email protected] / Fall 2015
MARRY MEORIGINAL TITLE / TROUW MET MIJ
GENRE / dramatic comedyCAST / Sirin Zahed, Dries De Sutter, Burak BalciDIRECTED BY / Kadir BalciSCRIPTED BY / Kadir Balci, Jean-Claude van RijckeghemPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / A Private ViewLANGUAGE / Dutch, Turkish RUNNING TIME / 90’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / [email protected]’L SALES / Cinemavault / [email protected]
PARADISE TRIPSORIGINAL TITLE / PARADISE TRIPS
PITCH / Holiday coach driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south. Today, on the verge of his own retirement, he has to bring a motley crew of partygoers to an electronic music festival in Croatia. His journey soon turns into a life-changing trip that confronts him with his long lost son.
GENRE / tragi-comedyCAST / Gene Bervoets, Jeroen Perceval, Cedric Van Den AbbeeleDIRECTED BY / Raf ReyntjensSCRIPTED BY / Raf ReyntjensPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / CaviarLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 90’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Helena Vlogaert / [email protected] / Summer 2015
PLAN BARTORIGINAL TITLE / PLAN BART
PITCH / Sarah is 34 and wants a baby. The love of her life, Alex, wants everything but a baby, while Sarah’s ex boyfriend, bachelor Bart, needs money to go to the Air Guitar World Championship in Osaka, Japan. Sarah dumps Alex and convinces Bart to get her pregnant in exchange for money. They’ll sleep together seven times after which they’ll never see each other again. Or at least that’s the plan…
GENRE / romantic comedyCAST / Wine Dierickx, Wouter Hendrickx, Jeroen PercevalDIRECTED BY / Roel MondelaersSCRIPTED BY / Roel Mondelaers, Hans Van NuffelPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / CaviarLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 87’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / [email protected] / [email protected]
PROBLEMSKI HOTELORIGINAL TITLE / PROBLEMSKI HOTEL
PITCH / 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. A Christmas story.
GENRE / tragical comedy, Christmas parable, dramaCAST / Tarek Halaby, Evgenia Brendes, Gökhan GirginolDIRECTED BY / Manu RicheSCRIPTED BY / Steve Hawes, Manu RichePRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Cassette for TimescapesLANGUAGE / IllegalianRUNNING TIME / 110’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Emmy Oost / [email protected] / Summer 2015
LUCIFERORIGINAL TITLE / LUCIFER
GENRE / dramaCAST / Gabino Rodriguez, Norma Pablo, Maria Toral Acosta,DIRECTED BY / Gust Van den BergheSCRIPTED BY / Gust Van den BerghePRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Minds MeetLANGUAGE / SpanishRUNNING TIME / 108’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / Tomas Leyers / [email protected]’L SALES / NDM / [email protected]
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PITCH / Following a brief affair, gym teacher Jurgen decides to marry his fellow teacher Sibel. But that’s not what their families expected: Jurgen’s Flemish parents don’t understand why their only son dumped his previous girlfriend to marry a colleague; while Sibel’s Turkish brother is agitated by her impulsive decision. Jurgen and Sibel look forward to their big day. But are they marrying not just each other, but their families as well?
PITCH / On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Lupita’s brother Emanuel pretends he’s paralyzed so he can drink and gamble while the two women tend to the sheep. Lucifer senses an opportunity and plays the miraculous healer. He forces Emanuel to walk again, seduces Maria and makes Lupita doubt about her faith.
LA TIERRA ROJAORIGINAL TITLE / LA TIERRA ROJA
PITCH / Pierre is one of the plantation managers pouring chemicals into the poor region of Misiones. In love with a young militant he tries to step back. But with the social war going on, switching sides is not so easy.
GENRE / dramaCAST / Geert Van Rampelberg, Eugenia Ramírez MioriDIRECTED BY / Diego Martinez VignattiSCRIPTED BY / Diego Martinez Vignatti, with the collaboration of Nicolas Saad, Mélanie DelloyeCO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / A Private ViewLANGUAGE / SpanishRUNNING TIME / 100’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / [email protected] INT’L SALES / Latido Films / [email protected]
TRIPLE TROUBLEORIGINAL TITLE / TRIPPEL TRAPPEL
PITCH / A team of three pets – a playful ferret, a sweet canary and a know-it-all stick insect – head out to ask Saint Nicolas for presents for their animal friends and themselves. The journey is filled with adventures and their relationships become severely tested – especially Fred the ferret who has to choose between his love of toys and his love for his friends.
GENRE / animationDIRECTED BY / Albert ‘t Hooft, Paco VinkSCRIPTED BY / Michiel Snijders, Arnoud RijkenCO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Vivi FilmLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 67’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / Veerle Appelmans / [email protected]’L SALES / Attraction Distribution / [email protected]
WASTE LANDORIGINAL TITLE / WASTE LAND
PITCH / Brussels. Dealing with the capital’s grim underbelly on a daily basis, taciturn homicide detective Leo Woeste lives with Kathleen and her five-year-old son. But his convictions start to crumble when Kathleen unexpectedly becomes pregnant. His very last homicide case, involving a death-obsessed dealer in Congolese cult statues, slowly drags him deeper into the wasteland, far away from his wife and his role as a father.
GENRE / psychological thrillerCAST / Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods, Babetida SadjoDIRECTED BY / Pieter Van HeesSCRIPTED BY / Pieter Van HeesPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / EpidemicLANGUAGE / French, DutchRUNNING TIME / 97’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014CONTACT / Eurydice Gysel / [email protected]’L SALES / Be for Films / Pamela Leu / [email protected]
ZURICHORIGINAL TITLE / ZURICH
PITCH / In a desperate attempt to leave her past behind, Nina wanders the motorways of Europe. She meets Matthias, a German truck driver, and joins him on his journeys. Nina doesn’t reveal much about who she is, though. Gradually it becomes clear that Nina’s drive to hang around in the truckers’ scene is a result of the pain caused by the ultimate betrayal that has befallen her.
GENRE / dramaCAST / Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry AtsmaDIRECTED BY / Sacha PolakSCRIPTED BY / Helena Van der MeulenCO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / A Private ViewLANGUAGE / Dutch, GermanRUNNING TIME / 89’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / [email protected]’L SALES / Beta Cinema / Thorsten Ritter / [email protected]
THE SUM OF HISTORIESORIGINAL TITLE / TERUG NAAR MORGEN
PITCH / 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.
GENRE / drama, romance, science-fictionCAST / Koen De Graeve, Matteo Simoni, Robrecht Vanden ThorenDIRECTED BY / Lukas BossuytSCRIPTED BY / Lukas BossuytPRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / CaviarLANGUAGE / DutchRUNNING TIME / 90’YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015CONTACT / Helena Vlogaert / [email protected] / Fall 2015
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SELECTED FILMSCOMPETITION
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO11 February, 12.15, Berlinale Palast (press screening)11 February, 19.00, Berlinale Palast12 February, 12.00, Friedrichstadtpalast12 February, 13.00, Zoo Palast 112 February, 18.00, Friedrichstadtpalast15 February, 21.15, FriedrichstadtpalastINT’L SALES / Films Boutique
GENERATION
THE TIE10 February, 10.00, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 112 February, 10.30, CinemaxX 113 February, 9.30, Zoo Palast 115 February, 10.00, Filmtheater am FriedrichshainINT’L SALES / Lumière
FORUM
ZURICH6 February, 11.30, CinemaxX 6 (press screening)7 February, 19.00, Delphi-Filmpalast9 February, 11.00, CineStar 810 February, 22.30, Arsenal 114 February, 20.00, Cubix 98 February, 17.10, CinemaxX 13 (market screening)INT’L SALES / Beta Cinema
SCREENING AT THE MARKET
BELGIAN RHAPSODY7 February, 13.00, CineStar 210 February, 9.30, dffb-KinoINT’L SALES / Be for Films
LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO8 February, 14.30, CinemaxX 129 February, 11.30, Marriott 1INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution
LA TIERRA ROJA8 February, 18.45, CinemaxX 18INT’L SALES / Latido Films
TRIPLE TROUBLE5 February, 13.30, CinemaxX 137 February, 9.30, CinemaxX 14INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution
WASTE LAND8 February, 9.00, CinemaxX 310 February, 17.45, CineStar 2INT’L SALES / Be for Films
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