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by Koen Mortier
Sam works as a security agent in a shopping mall. On a normal day, a bomb explodes.
He tries to save the victims, until something terrible happens. He runs off till he falls down from
exhaustion. A woman’s voice makes him raise his head. She’s one of the victims Sam saved.
She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. Thereafter Sam runs into everyone he saved
and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even the confrontation with the
wrongdoer isn’t that straightforward as he thought it would be. Sam finds out that guilt and
innocence can be pretty much alike.
WITH: SAM LOUWYCK, TITUS DE VOOGDT, BARBARA CALLEWAERT, JAN HAMMENECKER /
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): EPIDEMIC / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 88’ /
int’l sales: Reel Suspects [email protected]
IFFR: 1 February, 19.30, Luxor / 2 February, 18.30, Pathé 7 / 3 February, 16.30, Lantaren
Venster 5 / 5 February, 14.15, Lantaren Venster 5
EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening
schedules.
Bullhead
by Michaël R. Roskam
Young cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to
make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman
and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from his past set in motion a chain of
events with far-reaching consequences.
WITH: MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, JEROEN PERCEVAL, BARBARA SARAFIAN, JEANNE DANDOY /
Sam Louwyck / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SAVAGE FILM / LANGUAGE: DUTCH AND FRENCH /
RUNNING TIME: 126’ / INT’L SALES: Celluloid Dreams [email protected]
Berlinale: 13 February, 17.00, International / 14 February, 20.15, CineStar 3 /
17 February, 19.30, International / 18 February, 14.00, CinemaxX 7 /
19 February, 14.00, International
EFM: 14 February (hour and venue: TBC)
Grande Hotel
by Lotte Stoops
Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique. In one of the grandest hotels in the world, born of and to
luxury, today you enter ‘at your own risk’. More than 2500 people live there without water or
electricity. They have taken possession of the building and manipulated not only the stones but
also the dreams. A journey through present and past of a city in a city; a story about colonial
megalomania, revolutionary vanity and feeling at home.
DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS / LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE
AND ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 67’ / SALES INFO: Serendipity Films [email protected]
27 January, 19.30, Cinerama 2 / 29 January, 16.30, Pathé 4 / 30 January, 15.45,
Pathé 5 / 4 February, 17.00, Cinerama 1
Pulsar
by Alex Stockman
Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical courier. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to
New York to intern at a prestigious architecture firm. Shortly after her departure, Sam’s computer is
hacked. A series of rather dodgy IT-guys fail to protect his wireless network.
When the mysterious hacker seems to be intentionally screwing up Samuel’s life and his relationship
with Mireille, paranoia kicks in. Sam starts to suspect his neighbours and gets obsessed with WiFi
rays...
WITH: MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, TINE VAN DEN WYNGAERT, SIEN EGGERS, NICO STURM, VINCENT
LECUYER, GORDON WILSON / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): CORRIDOR / LANGUAGE: Dutch, French
and English / RUNNING TIME: 94’ / SALES INFO: Corridor [email protected]
28 January, 16.15, Pathé 6 / 29 January, 22.30, Cinerama 6 / 30 January, 14.45, De Doelen Willem Burger Zaal / 3 February, 19.45, De Doelen Jurriaanse Zaal
Flanders Shorts
After Empire
by Herman Asselberghs
Where were you on the Fifteenth February Day of the Year Three of the New Time?
That Saturday, history happened. History happened and we forgot about it...
EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /
RUNNING TIME: 52’ / SALES INFO: AUGUSTE ORTS [email protected]
27 January, 19.45, Lantaren Venster 1 / 28 January, 12.00, Lantaren Venster 2
Back by 6
by Peter Connelly
A film that brings us through a day’s journey of two young men who have to be ‘back by 6’.
WITH: SIMON TURNER, TIBO VANDENBORRE / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): MAARJA / LANGUAGE: DUTCH
AND ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 28’ / SALES INFO: Maarja [email protected]
15 February, 16.00, CinemaxX 5 / 16 Feb, 17.45, Colosseum 1 / 17 February, 22.00, CinemaxX 3
Because We Are Visual
by Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes
The Internet and its online communities intend to bring people closer together and to connect them.
Yet, surprisingly, it seems that the virtual world confronts these so-called vloggers more than ever with
their own loneliness. This documentary allows the viewer to discover this contemporary phenomenon
and focuses on the experience of the body within this virtual space. It creates a unique poetic realm in
which thoughts, fears, desires and worries, shared via the webcam, merge together.
DOCUMENTARY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): KASK / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND FRENCH /
RUNNING TIME: 47’12’’/ SALES INFO: Flanders Image [email protected]
31 January, 22.00, Your Space
Dear Steve by Herman Asselberghs
Dear Steve is a lyrical portrait of the laptop, the pedestrian icon of ‘the new spirit of capitalism’.
We can witness the ruthless, smooth dismantling of a brand-new MacBook Pro, and the act of literally
turning inside-out the digital work station that controls our daily lives. Don’t try this at home?
EXPERIMENTAL / WITH: STAN WANNET / CO-PRODUCER (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 45’ / SALES INFO: AUGUSTE ORTS [email protected]
31 January, 18.30, Your Space
Land of the Heroes by Sahim Omar Kalifa
Iraq 1988. In a land devastated by war, Dileer (10) and his sister want to watch cartoons on
television, but that seems to be more difficult than expected.
WITH: AHMED NISRET, ZANA GANDI, ADLA BAPIR, NAIMA ABDO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS):
A TEAM PRODUCTIONS / LANGUAGE: KURDIC AND ARABIC / RUNNING TIME: 17’ /
SALES INFO: a team productions [email protected]
13 February, 16.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2 / 14 February, 15.30, Filmtheater am
Friedrichshain / 20 February, 11.30, CinemaxX 3
Lobi (Yesterday/Tomorrow)
by Mekhar Azari, Eric Biansueki, Matthias De Groof, Rek Kandol,
Pierre Kigoma, Amourabinto Lukoji, Androa Mindre, Kristin Rogghe, Tocha Zaventen
Lobi, meaning both ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ in Lingala, is an experimental visual essay on the
50th anniversary of Congo’s Independence. Nine young filmmakers of Congolese and Belgian origine
collaborated in Kinshasa to create this super8 film, expressing nine different views that merge in a
quest for a common language to broach the past, conceive the present and imagine the future.
EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): MATTHIAS DE GROOF, KRISTIN ROGGHE /
LANGUAGE: FRENCH, DUTCH AND ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 38’ / SALES INFO: matthias de groof
and kristin Rogghe [email protected] and [email protected]
1 February, 11.30, Lantaren Venster 6 / 2 February, 19.45, Lantaren Venster 3
Na Wewe by Ivan Goldschmidt
1994. There is civil war in Burundi, a small country in Central Africa, near Rwanda. A confrontation
close to genocide starts from a rebellion between the Hutu ethnic group and a national Tutsi army.
WITH: RENAUD RUTTEN, FLORIS KUBWIMANA, ISMAËL KAPOSHO, ISSA RUGENDO / CO-PRODUCER
(FLANDERS): A PRIVATE VIEW / LANGUAGE: FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 19’ / INT’L SALES: Premium Films
[email protected]
Oh by Anouk De Clercq
Oh seeks to reanimate the ambitious, utopian spirit of renegade architect Etienne-Louis Boullée
(1728-1799). True to the spirit of the utopian architectural tradition Boullée is part of, he is probably
best remembered today for one unrealized project in particular: the design for a gigantic sphereshaped shrine dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern science, Isaac Newton.
EXPERIMENTAL / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: none / RUNNING TIME:
8’20’’ / SALES INFO: auguste orts [email protected]
28 January, 19.45, Lantaren Venster 3 / 29 January, 13.45, Lantaren Venster 3
Stardust by Nicolas Provost
Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas and uses the glorious
and ambiguous power of the gambling capital to turn everyday life into an exciting crime story.
experimental / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NICOLAS PROVOST / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /
RUNNING TIME: 20’ / SALES INFO: flanders image [email protected]
IFFR: 27 January, 15.45, Lantaren Venster 1 / 28 January, 14.00, Lantaren Venster 2
Storyteller
by Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost recomposes the Las Vegas strip into a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction.
PRODUCER (FLANDERS): NICOLAS PROVOST / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 7’30’’ /
SALES INFO: flanders image [email protected]
Think About Wood, Think About Metal
by Manon de Boer
Poetic portrait of Robyn Schulkowsky, who has worked with John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen,
John Zorn and Christian Wolff. Her percussion improvisations occupy a large part in the film.
Experimental / PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): AUGUSTE ORTS / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /
RUNNING TIME: 45’ / SALES INFO: auguste orts [email protected]
29 January, 18.00, Lantaren Venster 4 / 30 January, 22.30, Lantaren Venster 1
Co-productions
An Angel in Doel
by Tom Fassaert
Near the port of Antwerp lies the village of Doel. A village that has to disappear. While Doel is slowly
dying, the elderly Emilienne attempts to keep up a pretence of normality. At her kitchen table village life
seems to continue like nothing has changed. But when her close friends leave, the village priest dies
and demolition begins, the downfall seems inevitable. Will she ultimately also be forced to let go?
DOCUMENTARY / CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): CinéTé / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 72’ /
SALES INFO: cinété [email protected]
15 February, 20.00, Arsenal / 17 February, 19.30, CinemaxX4 / 18 February, 16.30,
CineStar 8 / 19 February, 14.00, Delphi-Filmpalast
Brownian Movement
by Nanouk Leopold
A couple is facing crisis after the woman has taken some of her male patients to a rented appartment.
WITH: SANDRA HÜLLER, DRAGAN BAKEMA / CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): SERENDIPITY FILMS /
RUNNING TIME: 102’ / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND FRENCH / INT’L SALES: Films distribution
[email protected]
Berlinale: 15 February, 21.30, Delphi-Filmpalast / 17 February, 15.00, Arsenal / 18 February,
19.15, CineStar 8 / 20 February,11.00, CineStar 8
EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.
A Cat in Paris
by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol
Dino is a cat with a secret double-life: he spends his days with Zoé, the daughter of an inspector, but
at night he’s on the road with Nico who is an exceptional burglar. Dino always enters the houses first.
Nico is very supple and his exceptional sense of balance makes him as good a climber as Dino the cat.
Zoé’s mother Jeanne is a police inspector. Her husband was murdered by Victor Costa, a psychopathic
gangster. While Zoé’s mother investigates the burglaries, Zoé is kidnapped by a gangster.
ANIMATION / co-production (FLANDERS): LUNANIME / LANGUAGE: Several Language versions /
RUNNING TIME: 70’ / INT’L SALES: Films distribution [email protected]
Berlinale: 13 February, 12.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 / 14 February, 10.00,
Filmtheater am Fiedrichshain / 16 February, 16.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2 /
18 February, 12.30, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.
Illegal
by Olivier Masset-Depasse
Tania is a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son.
Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested. Mother and son are
separated and Tania is placed in a detention centre. She will do anything to be reunited with her son
but won’t manage to avoid threats of deportation.
WITH: Anne Coessens, Esse Lawson, Gabriela Perez, Christelle Cornil / CO-PRODUCER
(FLANDERS): PRIME TIME / LANGUAGE: FRENCH, RUSSIAN / Running time: 90’ /
Int’L SALES: Films Distribution [email protected]
screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.
Screening at EFM
Luke and Lucy & The Texas Rangers
by Mark Mertens and Wim Bien
Dark City, Texas: the evil and mysterious Jim Parasite has concocted a plan to become the biggest
and most powerful man in the world. He captures the Texas Rangers, but one of them manages to
escape and calls upon Luke and Lucy for help. Together with their aunt and their two best friends,
Luke and Lucy travel to Texas to become the new Texas Rangers, determined to put Parasite and his
gang where they belong: in jail.
ANIMATION / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SKYLINE ENTERTAINMENT / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /
RUNNING TIME: 85’ / INT’L SALES: Delphis Films [email protected]
12 February, 17.30, CinemaxX 17 / 14 February, 14.30, CinemaxX 19
Madly In Love
by Hilde Van Mieghem
Teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and big sister Michelle work their way through
the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and
indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a
bit lost. The question remains whether or not their male counterparts can match them.
WITH: Veerle Dobbelaere, Wine Dierickx, Marie Vinck, Koen De Bouw, Koen De Graeve, Kevin
Janssens / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): Caviar / LANGUAGE: Dutch / Running time: 100’ /
SALES INFO: Caviar [email protected]
EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.
Oxygen
by Hans Van Nuffel
Tom and his brother are bright young men who suffer from an illness that is slowly destroying their
lungs. Tom struggles with his short life-expectancy and hangs out with petty criminals. Enter his
hospital neighbor Xavier who suffers from the same illness but behaves like an athlete and infuses Tom
with optimism. Tom enjoys his new friend and finds love with quirky quarantine girl Eline. But when his
brother dies, Tom is devastated. He hides with his criminal friends and breaks away from Xavier and
Eline. Much later, Tom and Xavier meet up again when they are up for a lung transplant. Slowly, their
friendship rekindles...
WITH: Stef Aerts, Wouter Hendrickx, Marie Vinck, Anemone Valcke, Rik Verheye /
PRODUCER (FLANDERS): A PRIVATE VIEW / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 98’ /
INT’L SALES: Premium Films [email protected]
EFM: screening info not available at press time. Please do check daily screening schedules.
Turquaze
by Kadir Balci
Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16),
return to Ghent, Belgium. Their mother remains in Istanbul. The three brothers resume their lives but need
to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong
friends, Timur tries to fulfil his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Sarah, Timur’s girlfriend,
thinks it’s cool, until she realises how little he seems to notice her now…
WITH: BURAK BALCI, CHARLOTTE VANDERMEERSCH, NIHAT ALPTUG ALTINKAYA, TILBE SARAN, Hilal Sönmez /
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS): MENUET / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, TURKISH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ /
INT’L SALES: Delphis Films [email protected]
13 February, 09.15, CinemaxX 18 / 15 February, 11.00, CinemaxX 17
COMING SOON
* indicated running times, sales info, etc. are tentative
Blue Bird by Gust Van den Berghe
Two boys, Mytyl and Tytyl, and their search for a mysterious blue bird, which they manage to capture after
a long journey through the weirdest of worlds and experiences. And then lose.
With: tbc / Producer (Flanders): Minds Meet / Language: Tamberma (Togo) /
Running Time: 85’ / Sales info: Minds Meet [email protected]
Germaine
by Frank Van Mechelen
1971. Eighteen-year-old Germaine lives with her parents and grandfather in a small house in Balen. Working
in a supermarket, she listens to pop music and dreams of a better life when the workers at the town factory,
including her father, decide to go on strike. Although not supported by the unions, the workers refuse to give
in and hold out for three months. It changes their lives forever. Based on a true story.
WITH: STANNY CRETS, EVELIEN BOSMANS, TINY BERTELS, MICHEL VAN DOUSSELAERE, BART HOLLANDERS /
PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SKYLINE ENTERTAINMENT / LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ /
SALES INFO: Skyline Entertainment [email protected]
Hasta la vista!
by Geoffrey Enthoven
Three guys in their twenties love wine and women. Wine they have savoured abundantly, but they have
never had a woman. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to get laid
there. Nothing will stop them. Not even their handicaps: one is blind, the other is confined to a wheelchair
and the third is completely paralysed…
WITH: ROBRECHT VANDEN THOREN, GILLES DE SCHRYVER, TOM AUDENAERT, ISABELLE DE HERTOGH,
Karlijn Sileghem / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): FOBIC FILMS / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, FRENCH, SPANISH /
RUNNING TIME: 120’ / SALES INFO: Fobic Films [email protected]
Madonna’s Pig
by Frank Van Passel
A salesman of a computerized pig fertilization machine gets stuck in Madonna, an isolated and scenic
village paralyzed by a conflict about the construction of a new road. A local school teacher, dead soldiers
and an explosive Madonna statue confront him with a new choice: choosing love or a safe, empty
existence full of useless goals such as selling a mechanic gigolo-pig.
WITH: WINE DIERICKX, WIM OPBROUCK, MARIJKE PINOY / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): CAVIAR /
LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: TBC / SALES INFO: Caviar [email protected]
Mixed Kebab
by Guy Lee Thys
Belgian-Turkish Ibrahim chooses to live with his lover Kevin over marrying his young cousin Elif. But
the kid brother and neo-jihadist Furkan will try to avenge the family’s honor.
WITH: CEM AKKANAT, KARLIJN SILEGHEM, GAMZE TAZIM, MATTIAS VAN DE VIJVER / PRODUCER
(FLANDERS): FACT & FICTION / LANGUAGE: DUTCH, TURKISH, ENGLISH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ /
SALES INFO: Fact & Fiction [email protected]
Northsea, Texas
(working title) by Bavo Defurne
A down-at-heel coastal village in the 70s. A lonely kid, Pim brightens up his pitiful life with dreams of
princesses and beauty queens. As a teenager his dreams turn to Gino, the rugged boy next door, his
motorcycling hero. But Gino isn’t so much of a dreamer. Or is he?
WITH: EVA VANDER GUCHT, KATELIJNE DAMEN, LUK WYNS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): INDEED FILMS /
LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 96’ / SALES INFO: Indeed Films [email protected]
Portable Life
by Fleur Boonman
A young naive girl becomes a young woman through seemingly chance encounters. This is the story
of her journey (a real and an inner one), through parallel worlds and different times, where certain
people are inextricably linked with each other.
WITH: ELLA-JUNE HENRARD, RUTGER HAUER, SAM LOUWYCK / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): SAVAGE FILM /
LANGUAGE: Dutch, English and French / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / SALES INFO: Savage Film
[email protected]
Quixote’s Island
by Didier Volckaert
San runs away from school with Quixote, an odd character, who takes him on an excentric trip to
adulthood. San balances on the thin line between reality and imagination untill something serious that
happens at school pulls him back.
WITH: TIEMEN VAN HAVER, JEROEN WILLEMS, ELINE KUPPENS / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): VIVI FILM /
LANGUAGE: DUTCH / RUNNING TIME: 100’ / SALES INFO: Vivi Film [email protected]
Swooni
by Kaat Beels
Six lives crossing each other over a period of 24 hours in a hotel, confronting the most basic human
needs with the so-called ‘quality problems’ of Western society. In order to feel complete, we must
mean something to someone else. And that is easier said than done.
WITH: GEERT VAN RAMPELBERG, VIVIANE DE MUYNCK, SARA DE ROO, NATALI BROODS, ISSAKA
SAWADOGO / PRODUCER (FLANDERS): EYEWORKS FILM & TV DRAMA / LANGUAGE: DUTCH AND
FRENCH / RUNNING TIME: 90’ / SALES INFO: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama [email protected]
Welcome Home by Tom Heene
Five Young partying Eurocrats in a posh Lancia play a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a young
woman on a bike. When things threaten to get out of hand, one of them starts to feel remorse.
With: Michael Sladden, Carole Weyers, Manah Depauw, Felipe Mafasoli / Producer
(Flanders): Minds Meet / Language: Dutch / Running time: 75’ / Sales info: Minds Meet
[email protected]
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