Content 2012 May

FLANDERS SHORTS AT CANNES 2012 P COCkaIgnE by EMILIE VErHaMME

26 May, 11.00, Debussy / 26 May, 15.00 (TBC), BuñuelDanilo, a Ukrainian father and his two sons, Olek and Andriy travel under inhuman conditions from Kiev to Belgium, where they hope to fi nd a better life. Once arrived, they become the victims of exploitation and degradation by other immigrants. The lack of solidarity is striking.WITH: OLEG FARCHTEYN, STAS FARCHTEYN, OLEG DANILOV / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MINDS MEET / LANGUAGE: UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN / RUNNING TIME: 12’47” / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET [email protected] Selected for Offi cial Competition (short)

P MaTTEuS by LEnI HuygHE

23 May, 14.30, BuñuelNico and Alice move with their 10-year-old son Mateo to the countryside. Caught up in the renovation of their new house they don’t notice their son’s strange behaviour. When Alice fi nally realizes something is wrong, it is already too late.WITH: MATEO BAL, DOLORES BOUCKAERT, ARIEH WORTHALTER / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SINT-LUKAS BRUSSELS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 18’ / SALES INFO: FLANDERS IMAGE fl [email protected] Selected for Cinéfondation Competition

CO-PRODUCTIONS AT CANNES 2012 P a pErDrE La raISOn by JOaCHIM LafOSSE

22 May, 14.00, Debussy / 22 May, 22.15, Debussy / 23 May, 18.00, BazinMarket screening: 23 May, 11.30, Rivièra 2A generous doctor brings a young Moroccan boy back to Belgium to raise him as if he were his own son. When the boy reaches adulthood, falls in love and starts a family, his young wife fi nds herself trapped in an oppressive emotional atmosphere that will insidiously lead to a tragic outcome. With the birth of their children, the couple’s reliance on the doctor becomes excessive. The latter’s boundless altruism evolves into domination.WITH: NIELS ARESTRUP, TAHAR RAHIM, EMILIE DEQUENNE / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 110’ /INT’L SALES: LES FILMS DU LOSANGE info@fi lmsdulosange.fr Selected for Un Certain Regard

P ruST & bOnE by JaCQuES auDIarD

17 May, 15.00, Lumière / 17 May, 19.30, Lumière / 18 May, 11.30, Salle 60ème Market screenings: 19 May, 20.00, Star 2 / 21 May, 20.00, Palais J / 23 May, 18.00, Star 2 Ali suddenly fi nds himself in charge of Sam, his fi ve-year-old son who he barely knows. Penniless and without friends, he leaves the north of France to seek shelter at his sister’s. Ali fi nds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub, where he meets Stephanie, a beautiful killer whale trainer. He takes her home and leaves her his number. One day, Ali gets an unexpected phone call from Stephanie. When he sees her again she is crammed into a wheelchair. She has lost both her legs and her dreams. Ali will share genuine moments with her, without pity, and help her to resume life…WITH: MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, MARION COTILLARD, ARMAND VERDURE, TIBO VANDENBORRE / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LUNANIME / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 120’ / INT’L SALES: CELLULOID DREAMS [email protected] Selected for Offi cial Competition

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CANNES MARKET SCREENINGS

CODE 37, THE MOVIE by JakOb VErbruggEn

16 May, 11.30, Palais B / 21 May, 17.30, Palais B

Chief police inspector Hannah Maes and her team are investigating a series of strange indecency offenses taking place in Ghent. To Hannah, the search to find a perpetrator soon becomes a search to find herself and when her private investigation also gains momentum, she loses herself completely in the temptations of the night…WITH: VEERLE BAETENS, MICHAËL PAS, MARC LAUWRYS, GILLES DE SCHRYVER, GEERT VAN RAMPELBERG / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MENUET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ / INT’L SALES: DELPHIS FILMS [email protected]

COME aS yOu arE (HASTA LA vISTA) by gEOffrEy EnTHOVEn

18 May, 9.15, Rivièra 2

Three guys in their early 20s love wine and women but they are still virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experience. Nothing will stop them. Not even their handicaps: one is blind, the other is confined to a wheelchair and the third one is completely paralyzed.WITH: ROBRECHT VANDEN THOREN, GILLES DE SCHRYVER, TOM AUDENAERT, ISABELLE DE HERTOGH / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FOBIC FILMS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, FRENCH, SPANISH / RUNNING TIME: 115’ / INT’L SALES: FILMS BOUTIQUE [email protected]

P MIXED kEbab by guy LEE THyS

19 May, 16.00, Palais E / 22 May, 10.00, Gray 5

Flanders / Turkey 2011. Flemish-Turkish Ibrahim chooses to fall for young and handsome Kevin over marrying his cute Turkish cousin Elif while kid brother Furkan converts to Islamic fundamentalism.WITH: CEM AKKANAT, SIMON VAN BUYTEN, GAMZE TAZIM, LUKAS DE WOLF / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FACT & FICTION / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, TURKISH / RUNNING TIME: 98’ / INT’L SALES: REEL SUSPECTS [email protected]

P SaMMy 2 by bEn STaSSEn

20 May, 9.00, Hotel Majestic / 22 May, 12.00, Olympia 2

While helping a dozen or so hatchlings into the sea, Sammy and Ray are captured by poachers. Our heroes are sold to a hi-tech aquarium belonging to a restaurant. As soon as they get to the aquarium, Sammy and Ray start planning their escape, no easy task in this state-of-the-art facility. The sequel to Sammy’s Adventures – The Secret Passage.3D ANIMATION / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NWAVE PICTURES / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 85’ / ETA: SUMMER 2012 / INT’L SALES: STUDIOCANAL [email protected]

TIME Of My LIfE by nIC baLTHazar

18 May, 9.45, Olympia 4 / 22 May, 10.00, Olympia 4

The story of the MS-patient Mario Verstraete who was not only instrumental in legalising euthanasia in Belgium… but was also the first to make use of that new law. This is the story of his best friend and the girl who loved both of them. The story of a group of friends and family who stood by him. Till always.WITH: KOEN DE GRAEVE, GEERT VAN RAMPELBERG, LOTTE PINOY, VIVIANE DE MUYNCK / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 110’ / INT’L SALES: FILMS DISTRIBUTION [email protected]



CO-PRODUCTIONS AT THE CANNES MARKET

aLfIE, THE LITTLE WErEWOLf by JOraM LürSEn

16 May, 10.00, Palais E / 21 May, 15.30, Palais BLittle Alfie has no idea what is happening to him when, on the night of his seventh birthday, he changes into a white, fluffy animal: a little werewolf. When the daylight starts to show he goes back home tired and wakes up as a little boy. Timmie thinks it’s really cool and gives Alfie the name ‘Alfie the little werewolf’. But the sensitive Alfie doesn’t want to be a werewolf.WITH: OLE KROES, MAAS BRONKHUYZEN, LUPA RANTI, REMKO VRIJDAG, KIM VAN KOOTEN / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): CINÉ CRI DE COEUR / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 95’ / INT’L SALES: DELPHIS FILMS [email protected]

anTOn COrbIJn InSIDE OuT by kLaarTJE QuIrIJnS

17 May, 15.30, Arcades 1 / 21 May, 14.00, Arcades 2An intimate and revelatory portrait of an influential artist, Anton Corbijn Inside Out, is the product of more than two years filming by director Klaartje Quirijns whose close personal relationship with Anton allows her unprecedented access to both the man and his work.DOCUMENTARY / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SAVAGE FILM / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 80’ / INT’L SALES: HANWAY FILMS [email protected]

P COOL kIDS DOn’T Cry by DEnnIS bOTS

20 May, 15.30, Gray 2Tough prime school girl Akkie loves soccer and can be a real bully. Love is the only thing she’s scared of. When Akkie is diagnosed with Leukemia, she has to fight for her life. On the verge of going to highschool, Akkie has to allow love to enter her life, and thus gain courage to accept the inevitable.WITH: HANNA OBBEEK, NILS VERKOOIJEN, EVA VAN DER GUCHT / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LIVING STONE / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / INT’L SALES: HIGH POINT MEDIA GROUP [email protected]

P THE Day Of THE CrOWS by JEan-CHrISTOpHE DESSaInT

17 May, 12.00, Olympia 6 / 17 May, 18.00, Star (by invitation only) / 19 May, 16.00, Rivièra 1 / 21 May, 10.00, Olympia 6In a cabin deep in the forest, a child and his father lead a wild life in utmost isolation.The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until one day he discovers a neighbouring village.ANIMATION / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): WALKING THE DOG / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 86’ / INT’L SALES: LE PACTE [email protected]

P SHE’S nOT CryIng, SHE’S SIngIng by pHILIppE DE pIErpOnT

22 May, 17.30, Arcades 3Watching over her father who is in a coma, 27-year-old Laura finally dares to face their incestuous past. But life is unpredictable and Laura’s desire for revenge causes painful memories to come to the surface. She has to face up to her own past. She ends up reconciled. Not with her father, but with her childhood, herself and life.WITH: ERIKA SAINTE, MARIJKE PINOY, JEAN-FRANÇOIS WOLFF, JULES WERNER / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 78’ / INT’L SALES: INSOMNIA WORLD SALES [email protected]

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aLLEz, EDDy! by gErT EMbrECHTS

11-year-old Freddy’s isolated life totally disrupts when the first supermarket opens its doors in

the village. As their opening event the supermarket organises a cyclist race, the winner of the

race will meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fierce opponent of the supermarket doesn’t want

to hear anything about it. Freddy races nonetheless. By participating a new world opens up, not

only for Freddy but also for the people around him.

WITH: PETER VAN DEN BEGIN, BARBARA SARAFIAN, JELTE BLOMMAERT /

PRODUCER (FLANDERS): CINÉ CRI DE COEUR / LANGUAGE: DUTCH /

RUNNING TIME: 100’ / SALES INFO: CINÉ CRI DE COEUR [email protected]

THE BOY IS GONE by CHrISTOpH bOHn

A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation’s

nightmare. Based on his intense and personal memories, Christoph Bohn tells the story of the

unknown German community in Belgium.

A fascinating journey back in time through animated scenes, never showed archive footage and

absorbing testimonies.

ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): OFF WORLD /

LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 68’ / SALES INFO: OFF WORLD [email protected]

DRY BRANCHES OF IRAN by DanIEL LaMbO

A young dancer wakes up in an Iranian prison cell without any recollection of how he ended up

there. Slowly he starts remembering what happened to him and in doing so, we get a glimpse

of the current explosive political situation in Iran and the entire Middle East. The film was entirely

shot unofficially and clandestine on smartphones. The scenes are acted out by a group of Iranian

actors who wish to remain anonymous and therefore their faces are out of frame.

WITH: DRY BRANCHES COMPANY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LAMBO FILMS /

LANGUAGE: FARSI / RUNNING TIME: 60’ /

SALES INFO: LAMBO FILMS [email protected]

HIgH HEELS, LOW TIDE by ILSE SOMErS

Four friends have organised a reunion weekend at a seaside resort. Soon the women discover

that they have drifted apart much further than they had imagined. The weekend forces them

to take a hard look at friendship, love and life in general, ultimately bringing hope for a new

beginning.

WITH: ELINE KUPPENS, MAAIKE NEUVILLE, MARIEKE DILLES, ELLEN SCHOETERS /

PRODUCER (FLANDERS): VIVI FILM / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ /

SALES INFO: VIVI FILM [email protected]

HOTEL SWOOnI by kaaT bEELS

The lives of six people intertwine during 24 hours in a hotel. As the city suffers from a

sweltering heat wave, inside, emotions start to run high...

WITH: GEERT VAN RAMPELBERG, VIVIANE DE MUYNCK, SARA DE ROO, NATALI BROODS,

ISSAKA SAWADOGO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH,

FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 98’ / INT’L SALES: Delphis Films [email protected]

COMING SOON*

* indicated running times, sales info, etc. are tentative

82 DAYS IN APRIL by barT Van DEn bEMpT

Herman and Marie, a couple in their 60s, arrive in Istanbul. A bitter task awaits them, to pick up the backpack of their deceased son. When they go through his belongings, they discover a logbook of his last expedition. Herman is determined to reconstruct his son’s last journey, to see what he has seen. He drags along his wife into a, what he believes to be, cathartic venture.WITH: MARC PEETERS, KAREN VANPARYS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, ENGLISH, TURKISH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SPRING 2013 / SALES INFO: SERENDIPITY FILMS [email protected]

AFRICAN SAFARI 3D by bEn STaSSEn

Take the ride of a lifetime and go on the most thrilling safari you could ever experience in never before seen immersive 3D, travelling across Africa from Namibia to the Kilimanjaro.3D DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NWAVE PICTURES / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 85’ / ETA: 2013 / SALES INFO: NWAVE PICTURES [email protected]

THE BAG OF FLOUR by kHaDIJa LECLErE

Sarah is taken by her father from a Belgian orphanage back into his family in Morocco, a country she knows nothing about and that she will have to make her own. From this moment on, Sarah’s struggle will be to choose the life she wants and not the life that has been chosen for her.WITH: HAFSIA HERZI, HIAM ABBASS, MEHDI DEHBI, SMAIN FAIROUZE, FREDERIC DUSSENNE / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ETA: FALL 2012 / RUNNING TIME: 92’ / SALES INFO: EYEWORKS [email protected]

BRASSERIE ROMANTIQUE by JOëL VanHOEbrOuCk Forty-something Pascaline runs a brasserie and prepares the stylish dining room for Valentine. How could she expect her lover of twenty years ago to appear and ask her to leave with him to Rio. Her patrons of the evening also cope with the unexpected. Bored housewife Rose informs her husband that she has a lover. Almost 50, Mia intends to commit suicide when she is courted by waiter Lesley. And inconspicuous civil servant Walter is wrecked by insecurity when seated in front of the woman of his dreams.WITH: AXEL DAESELEIRE, SARA DE ROO, KOEN DE BOUW, MATTHIJS SCHEEPERS, WINE DIERICKX / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A PRIVATE VIEW / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / ETA: WINTER 2012 / SALES INFO: A PRIVATE VIEW [email protected]

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN by fELIX Van grOEnIngEn Two lovers cannot find each other after the death of their six-year-old daughter. There is no reunification, the broken circle remains broken. And yet everything comes together: the fierce love that is gone, the raw grief, the death instinct, the love for America and the rage against God.WITH: VEERLE BAETENS, JOHAN HELDENBERGH / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MENUET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / ETA: FALL 2012 / SALES INFO: MENUET [email protected]

DEEP IN A DREAM OF YOU by CarOLInE STrubbE

A psychological drama picturing the unusual relationship between a young girl and a man living together in an abandoned costal village. Despite their barriers and dependance they eventually accept their relationship. Sometimes you have to get lost to find the right way. From the director of Lost Persons Area.WITH: KIMKE DESART, ZOLTAN MIKLOS HAJDU / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MINDS MEET / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: TBC / ETA: 2013 / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET [email protected]

THE FIFTH SEASON by brOSEnS & WOODWOrTH

A mysterious calamity strikes a village deep in the Ardennes: spring refuses to come. The cycle of nature is capsized. Relationships deteriorate. Alice, Thomas and Octave, three kids in the village, struggle to make sense of the world that is collapsing around them. A haunting tale.WITH: AURÉLIA POIRIER, DJANGO SCHREVENS, SAM LOUWYCK, GILL VANCOMPERNOLLE / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): BO FILMS LANGUAGE: FRENCH, DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: TBC / ETA: FALL 2012 / SALES INFO: BO FILMS [email protected]

KID by fIEn TrOCH

Kid, a little boy of seven, lives with his mother and his slightly older brother Billy on a farm outside a small town. Since their father abandoned them a few years ago, they struggle to make ends meet. Then fate strikes. The two little boys have to move with their uncle and aunt. Kid misses his mother more than ever, and wants to be with her again.WITH: BENT SIMONS, MAARTEN MEEUWSEN, GABRIELLA CARIZZO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SUMMER 2012 / SALES INFO: PRIME TIME [email protected]

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LITTLE BLACK SPIDERS by paTrICE TOyE

Katja, Roxy and a group of other lively pregnant teenage girls are hidden in a hospital attic, awaiting the birth of their babies. They share good and bad times, establish close friendships and try to distract themselves during the long, long wait. Some of the girls want to put this ‘mistake’ behind them as quickly as possible. Katja, herself an orphan, has very different ideas; she looks forward to having a baby. All of a sudden, she becomes painfully aware of the plans that are made behind her back. But she is determined not to let any of it happen to either her or her baby. WITH: LINE PILLET, CHARLOTTE DE BRUYNE, DOLORES BOUCKAERT / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: SUMMER 2012 / SALES INFO: PRIME TIME [email protected]

OFFLINE by pETEr MOnSaErT

After seven years in prison, Rudy has set himself two clear objectives: get back to work as a washing machine repairman, and – more importantly – become reconciled with the family he had to leave behind. But despite the help and support of Denise, a retired hairdresser, and his friend Rachid, his plans fail. Just when a reunion eventually comes within sight, the past gets the upper hand again, and Rudy has to take the toughest decision of his life.

WITH: WIM WILLAERT, ANEMONE VALCKE / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): LUNANIME / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 110’ /

ETA: FALL 2012 / SALES INFO: LUNANIME [email protected]

PINOCCHIO by EnzO D’aLO

Pinocchio, carved out of a wooden trunk by his ‘father’ Giupetto, becomes a young puppet boy. Pinocchio’s growing to adulthood leads along a path of individual and wrenching choices of surprising transformations, of poor and good teachers and friends, of sentencing and imprisonment, of promises, strength and survival. Based on the original novel of Carlo Collodi…ANIMATION / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): WALKING THE DOG / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 78’ / ETA: SUMMER 2012 / INT’L SALES: REZO WORLD SALES infosrezo@rezofi lms.com

WELCOME HOME by TOM HEEnE

Coming home from a long journey Lila meets an Iranian visiting Brussels for the fi rst time since 40 years. The next moment she breaks up with her boyfriend. During a last encounter she has a brutal crash with a bunch of young Eurocrats.WITH: MICHAEL SLADDEN, CAROLE WEYERS, MANAH DEPAUW, FELIPE MAFASOLI / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MINDS MEET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 75’ / ETA: TBC / SALES INFO: MINDS MEET [email protected]

ZIGZAG KID by VInCEnT baL

Nono wants to be like his father – the best police inspector in the world – but he constantly gets in trouble. Two days before his Bar Mitzvah, he is sent away to his uncle Sjmoel, who is supposed to get him back on track. However, during the train ride Nono gets one last chance to prove himself... Together with master-burglar Felix Glick – an old acquaintance of his father – he stops the train and enters a world of disguises, chases, French chansons and Zohara, a mysterious woman whose secrets will change Nono’s life forever.WITH: BURGHART KLAUßNER, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, FEDJA VAN HUÊT / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / ETA: FALL 2012 / SALES INFO: PRIME TIME [email protected]

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