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DAY 7
Monday 20 May 2019

FIVE PRODUCERS TO WATCH FIVE UPCOMING FILMS

A TEAM PRODUCTIONS ACID selection. In 2017, Frakas was presenting
Grave by Julia Ducournau. The company ADORATION, BY FABRICE DU WELZ
A Team Productions has been founded in 2009 by specialises in genre movies directed by Adoration is the last of Du Welz’s Ardennes
Hendrik Verthé and Kobe Van Steenberghe, and has international authors, and will shortly start trilogy, strong genre movies suffused with
produced short fi lms, documentaries and feature shooting no less than four Belgian feature fi lms: consuming passion. It follows the story of
fi lms with a focus on reaching wide audiences. Sans Soleil (Banu Akseki), La Ruche (Christophe Paul, 14, who lives with his mother, a maid in
Their latest productions include co-directors Adil El Hermans), Inexorable (Fabrice du Welz) and Le a mental hospital. One day a new patient
Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Black (2016) and Gangsta Calendrier (Patrick Ridremont). arrives, Gloria, a young teenage girl of the
(2018), as well as Sven Huybrecht’s U-235 (2019). same age who is strange and fascinating. Paul
Hendrik Verthé has been selected for this year’s SAVAGE FILM falls deeply in love with her. So much in love
Producers on the Move in Cannes. that he will run away with her, far from the
Savage Film, founded in 2007 by Bart Van adult world.
CLIN D’OEIL FILMS Langendonck established itself internationally in
2012 with Michaël R. Roskam’s Bullhead. Faithful
Hanne Phlypo’s Clin d’oeil Films recently got companion to the Flemish director, Savage has CLEO, BY EVA COOLS
noticed with a couple of successful documentaries recently produced Le Fidèle, seen in Venice.
hitting big fi lm festivals, such as By the Name of Savage will soon release Patrick, Tim Mielants’ Seventeen-year-old Cleo survived a hit-and-
Tania by Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard, and fi rst feature, with the new fl emish star Kevin run accident in which both her parents lost
Manu by Emmanuelle Bonmariage, selected at Janssens, and is also developing the new Roskam their lives. Her grandmother (acclaimed
IDFA. Her work puts a strong focus on creative project, a Sylvia Kristel biopic, as well as Veerle Belgian actress Yolande Moreau) tries to offer
documentaries and author-driven fi lms. She is Baetens’s fi rst movie, The Melting. Cleo and her brother a warm and comfortable
currently producing Dreaming Walls by Amélie Van home, but she ends up bearing the brunt of a
Elbmt and Maya Duverdier, and The Falling Sky by WRONG MEN FILM rebellious teenager who searches for comfort
Pieter Van Eecke. with the mysterious Leos. Cleo is Eva Cools’
Wrong Men Film, launched seven years ago in fi rst feature.
FRAKAS PRODUCTION Brussels by Benoît Roland, is currently working
with some of the more promising young Belgian JUMBO, BY ZOÉ WITTOCK
It’s been three years in a row that Frakas talents. Wrong Men recently received the Cesar
Production has seen its productions selected in for the best short movie for Les Petites Mains, and Jeanne (Noémie Merlant), a shy young woman,
Cannes. This year, the company founded by should soon release Lola Vers la Mer by Laurent works as a night guard in an amusement park.
Jean-Yves Roubin co-produces Atlantique Micheli, is now shooting Rachel Lang’s second She has a binding relationship with her
(Offi cial Selection) and Vivarium (Critics’ Week). feature Mon Légionnaire, and is developing Valery mother, the outgoing Margarette (Emmanuelle
Last year, Alone at My Wedding, the fi rst feature Rosier’s next feature, as well as for Emmanuel Bercot). While no man can fi nd a place within
produced by Cassandre Warnauts was part of the Marre and Valentina Maurel. this duo, Jeanne develops a strange
relationship with Jumbo, the new star
attraction of the park. An intriguing pitch for
Zoe Wittock’s fi rst feature.
Royal Corgi,
by Ben Stassen
and Vincent THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR, BY PETER
Kesteloot BROSENS & JESSICA WOODWORTH

Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth offer a
sequel to their festival hit King of the
Belgians. After suffering a gunshot wound to
the ear during an unfortunate incident in
Sarajevo, the King (impressive Peter Van den
Begin) wakes up on a Croatian island, once
Tito’s famed summer residence. While he tries
to escape from the island to save his Kingdom,
© DR an envoy arrives announcing that the King has
been chosen to become the fi rst Emperor of a
TV series (Giles Coulier and War of the Worlds, Tim Mielants with the big American studios. nationalist Nova Europa. Fed up with others
and Peaky Blinders, Jakob Verbruggen and House of Behind the scene of this huge international success, Belgium determining his destiny, the King takes
Cards…). has a well-renowned animation industry, sheltering many matters into his own hands. Geraldine Chaplin,
international projects, such as Another Day of Life (Official Udo Kier and young Belgian actress Lucie
CARTOON BELGIUM Selection, Cannes 2018), or the long-awaited Ari Folman’s Debay are also part of this new adventure.
Besides the big names which represent Belgian cinema Anne Frank’s Diaries: The Graphic Adaptation, currently
abroad, there’s a sector which has been particularly dynamic being produced in Brussels. Belgian animation takes WORKING GIRLS (FILLES DE JOIE),
these last few years. Let’s have a look back in 2008. A few multiple forms, from Patar and Aubier’s crazy adventures BY FRÉDÉRIC FONTEYNE
months before Avatar crashes the box-office, a pretty special (the A Town Called Panic series), to hand-made stop-motion
movie hits the theatres: Fly Me to the Moon is the first (and gem La Bague au Doigt by Gerlando Infuso, last year’s Frédéric Fonteyne re-unites a strong female
last) feature ever to be screened uniquely in 3D. The movie Cannes discovery This Magnificent Cake! by Emma de Swaef cast (Sara Forestier, Noémie Lvovksy and
grosses more than $40m, and establishes its director and and Marc James Roels, the short programmes La Chouette Annabelle Lengronne) for this summer tale in
producer Ben Stassen as a specialist in the 3D field. nWave du Cinéma targeted at very young audiences, or the which three women who have nothing in
Production then releases seven more movies, all of them numerous works of students from the renowned La Cambre common share a little bit more than a secret:
attracting large audiences throughout the world. The last or the KASK. in order to live a dignifi ed life on one side of
one in date, Royal Corgi, has garnered more than 250,000 The RTBF and the Centre du Cinéma have recently the border, in Roubaix, they work as
spectators in Belgium, being their biggest success to date. launched a new fund for animated TV series, and while the prostitutes on the other, in Belgium.
The movie will be released in more than 60 countries. Flandriens of Animation where in the spotlight at Cartoon
nWave is a unique structure in Europe, offering independent Movie in 2017, the next Cartoon Forum will put a spotlight
distributors worldwide successful family movies to compete on Wallonia-Brussels productions.✦

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