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CLERMONT-FERRAND 2014
OFFICIAL
SELECTION
THE HUNGER
DE HONGER
Wednesday afternoon, 29 May 1963. Three boys
are playing in the vast dunes of the Flemish coast.
10-year-old little rascal Karel gets separated from
his two friends. He makes a discovery between the
grass and sand that will permanently alter his life and
can only be remembered in secrecy.
director Benoit De Clerck
running time 16’ 17”
year 2013 | country Belgium
producer | Ciné Cri de Coeur
www.cridecoeur.be | [email protected]
www.benoitdeclerck.com
sales Premium Films | [email protected] www.premium-films.com
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
CLERMONT-FERRAND
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I LOVE
HOOLIGANS
A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his
club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity
in order to survive in this world that is so precious to
him.
director Jan-Dirk Bouw
year 2013 | country The Netherlands, Belgium
Flemish co-producer Walking The Dog
[email protected] | www.walkingthedog.be
sales SND Films | [email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
CLERMONT-FERRAND
BETTY’S BLUES
A young guitarist tries his luck in an old blues dive in
Louisiana. He remembers the legend of Blind Boogie
Jones, in the New Orleans of the 1920s, a story of
love and revenge.
director Rémi Vandenitte
running time 11’
year 2013 | country France, Belgium
Flemish co-producer Lunanime
[email protected] | www.lunanime.be
NATIONAL COMPETITION
CLERMONT-FERRAND
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HEIR TO THE
EVANGELICAL
REVIVAL
The film is about religious-historical baggage. The
director, a descendant of French Huguenots and
English Protestant missionaries who migrated to
South Africa, is atheist-apostate-agnostic. In the
film she confronts her contradictory reactions to this
inherited evangelical background.
director Wendy Morris
producer Vertigo Productions
[email protected]
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LAB COMPETITION
CLERMONT-FERRAND
ADRIFT
A random refugee wanders without purpose or
direction 150 kilometer above the arctic circle.
director Frederik Jan Depickere
running time 9'
year 2012 | country Belgium, Colombia
producer Cobra Films | [email protected]
www.cobra-films.be
PANORAMA | LA FUITE
CLERMONT-FERRAND
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THE
IMPORTANCE OF
SWEET & SALT
While preparing dinner for his spouse, a man
contemplates his current predicament and comes to
question his sanity. A tragicomedy about his inner
struggle to escape from an extremely dysfunctional
relationship with his wife.
director Benoit De Clerck
running time 13'10”
producer Benoit De Clerck, Jean Pourveur
[email protected] | benoitdeclerck.com
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PANORAMA | LA FUITE
CLERMONT-FERRAND
MIA
7-year-old Mia tries to liberate her overworked mother
from the clutches of an overpopulated metropolis. In
her quest, she unlocks the hidden secrets that make
the world turn.
director Wouter Bongaerts
running time 9' 3” year 2013
country Belgium, the Netherlands
producer Vivi Film | [email protected]
www.vivifilm.be
OTHER DELIGHTS | KIDS
CLERMONT-FERRAND
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FICTION
CADET
Steve, a 13-year-old athlete, is secretly being doped by
his father and coach Patrick to enhance his performance
on the track. Steve is faced with the hard choice
between his self-esteem and his father's wishes.
BAD HUNTER
director Kevin Meul
Kurdistan, today. 19-year-old Bahoz goes hunting
and witnesses a rape. He scares the man away at
gunpoint and tries to comfort the distraught girl. She
is afraid to go back home…
producer Kevin Meul
[email protected]
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director Sahim Omar Kalifa
running time 14’
producer A Private View | [email protected]
www.aprivateview.be
sales Premium Films | [email protected]
www.premium-films.com
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THE WAY OF ALL
FLESH
DE WEG VAN
ALLE VLEES
Tibo works as a nurse on a palliative care floor. One day
his colleague asks him to spend the day with Frans,
SONGS FROM
THE OUTSIDE
the only patient without any friends or family, because
A young entrepeneur, Horace, stands at the precipice
producer Bekke Films
today Frans will undergo euthanasia. A big favour for
everyone who knows the racist and perverted Frans.
director Deben Van Dam
of financial ruin. One night, a strange object comes
crashing into his manor garden. It starts singing and
Horace responds.
director Michael Van Ostade
running time 30’
year 2014 country | Belgium, United Kingdom
producer Geronimo | www.geronimo.be
[email protected]
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running time 26' 50” | year 2013 | country Belgium
[email protected]
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MALAKIM
Tom, a lonely 11-year-old, bumps into a living statue
on the street. Despite Tom’s multiple efforts to make
the statue move, the angel remains still. Angry and
desperate for attention, the boy challenges him.
SONNET 81
director Frederike Migom
Ten years since the passing away of Ellen, it’s the
producer Lise Lambert
running time 12’
annual reunion of her friends. Everybody has coped
in his own way with the loss. Where is the grief now?
Where is someone, who died ten years ago?
director Maaike Neuville
running time 23’
producer Sint-Lukas School of Arts
[email protected]
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[email protected] | [email protected]
www.malakimthemovie.com
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GET RIPPED
Although 20-year-old Niko and a personal trainer meet
daily at their gym, their contact remains indifferent
and silent. As Niko’s efforts yield results, a game of
manipulation unfolds.
TAKE ME ALONG
EMMENEZ-MOI
Three elderly women enjoy life. When one of them
passes away, the connection between the other two
seems lost.
director Leonardo Van Dijl
running time 15’
producer Leonardo Van Dijl
[email protected]
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director Anthony Van Biervliet
running time 17’
producer Niels Putman
[email protected]
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MONT D’OR
Nine-year-old Nina gets dropped off by her mother to
spend a short vacation with her older cousin Maren and
her boyfriend Marco. The young girl falls madly in love
with 27-year-old Marco. This marks the beginning of a
naive and highly impossible love story for Nina.
LILITH
director Karen Vázquez
Lilith is a vampire. But she's trying everything she
can to appear human in order to fit into the city she
lives in. When she encounters Charlot, she begins to
understand what it means to fully integrate.
running time 20'18"
producer Earlybirds Films | [email protected] www.earlybirds-films.be
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director Maxim Stollenwerk
running time 21'49”
producer Maxim Stollenwerk
[email protected] F
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HART/COEUR
Two young women spend a night out in a small Belgian
town. This night will take them to different places, weird
conversations, and a confrontation with a man who has
a dark secret.
PORTE BAGAGE
director Koen Blauwblomme
Elise and her brother Morris sit silently in their car.
producer Koen Blauwblomme
They both seem deeply sunk in thought. Suddenly
they reach a deserted crossing. That’s where they
decide to start a journey. They know where it starts
but have no idea where it will end... If it ever ends.
director Domien Huyghe
running time 16'19"
producer Earlybirds Films | [email protected] www.earlybirds-films.be
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running time 21' 35"
[email protected]
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THE LOST VOICE
Salma, a famous Iraqi singer, is forced to leave her
native country. She ends up in an asylum centre in
Belgium. She still conducts herself as a diva, but when
she meets Hassan, a young Iraqi refugee, she gets
THE DAYS
confronted with the reality of things.
DE
DAGEN
director Bavi Yassin
Maria (30), a deaf woman, has just moved into a new
apartment. Simon (20) comes to paint a room in the
apartment. They both have their own language and
emotional perception. In the dark they find their own
and sincere way of communication. And after their
time together they leave again. The room is finished.
director Mathilde De Wit
producer Siel Van Daele
[email protected] | www.kask.be
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year 2013 | country Belgium, Iraq
producer | Bavi Yassin, Nore Maatala
[email protected] | [email protected]
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BLUE MONDAY
After many years, Jonas and Merel meet again. Old
memories and new events intertwine on a dreary
autumn day.
director Jelle Gordyn
YEARNER
running time 14' 9”
HUNKER
A man lives in the house behind his pregnant
producer Jelle Gordyn | [email protected]
girlfriend's lingerie store. He is a caring person who
tries his best for his surroundings and who's taking
his future fatherhood very sincere. One day he comes
home with a stuffed heron.
director Harm Dens
running time 23'
producer Harm Dens - KASK School of Arts
[email protected] | www.kask.be
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WOLF’S MILK
WOLFSMELK
After being imprisoned for several years Marcus is
determined to settle a score with his brother Simon.
Wolf's Milk is a story about brother love, a family
struggling decomposition after a terrible white lie.
HOUSES WITH
SMALL WINDOWS
22-year old Dilan has shamed her family and must
die. And as tradition will have it, the killing must be
compensated. Yet another victim is made.
director Bülent Öztürk
running time 15’
producer Clin d’Oeil Films | [email protected]
www.clindoeilfilms.be
sales Premium Films | [email protected] www.premium-films.com
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director Hans Vercauter
running time 15’
producer Caviar | [email protected] www.caviarcontent.com
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ALSO AVAILABLE
Ana Luz
This is Ronald
decides to go look for her son, who immigrated to
Although he didn't do anything wrong, he becomes
After the recent death of her husband, Ana Luz
Ronald's neighbours accuse him of strange practices.
Brussels long ago.
isolated from the people in his neighbourhood.
15’ | Felipe Mafasoli | [email protected]
19’ | Jules Comes | [email protected]
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Baghdad Messi
The Fall
He and his friends are eagerly looking forward to
small roads. Suddenly the man realizes he has lost his
Little Hamoudi is totally obsessed with football.
the Champions League finale but then Hamoudi’s
television set breaks down...
17’ | Sahim O. Kalifa | [email protected]
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A couple on vacation. They drive past green hills and
way. How thin is the veneer of civilization?
17’ | Kristof Hoornaert | [email protected]
F
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Robbie Rocket
Tsjernobyl Hearts
heat wave brings his grandmother's health in danger
to live in but only to find their past in an unrecognizable
Robbie is a small hero with a big imagination. When a
Robbie decides to take action.
24’ | Wim Geudens | [email protected]
F
Jules and Adrien decide to revisit the house they used
state.
21’ | Emilie Verhamme | [email protected]
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F
Time Overflows
Until It Hits You
of modeling. When an important shoot turns up, his
the holidays in their caravan in the middle of a vast
A young man tries to find his way within the world
heart begins to fill with doubt.
A young couple and their ten-year-old son spend
wood. Then, the unthinkable happens: the little boy
disappears.
23’ 15” | Ruben Vandersteen |
[email protected]
19’ | Jan Van Dyck | [email protected]
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DOCUMENTARY
EXPERIMENTAL
CHANGING
SPEEDS
In 1950 a man decides to cycle to Rome with his best
friend. A journey that is in sharp contrast with the rest
28 RUE BRICHAUT
A history is not only a narrative of things past, it is
also a mode of belonging together, a way of sharing
individual and collective experiences, as well as the
forms and signs that give them shape.
of his less adventurous life.
director Janneke Swinkels
running time 21'21
year 2013 | country Belgium, the Netherlands
producer KASK | [email protected]
sales Janneke Swinkels | [email protected]
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director Hannes Verhoustraete
running time 31'30"
producer Hannes Verhoustraete
[email protected]
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A
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MAYBE
DARKNESS
PEUT-ÊTRE
LE NOIR
An old family flat left at a standstill for 150 years as if
stuck in time. Years pass by as generations come back
every summer during the holidays.
DER KREISLAUF
director Juliette Joffé
Der Kreislauf depicts a unique game that is played
on Belgium's beaches in the summer. When the
weather is good, one can find colourful flowers for
sale in small, impromptu-build shops. These flowers
are made of paper.
director Katrien Vermeire
running time 29’
producer Katrien Vermeire | [email protected]
www.katrienvermeire.com
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year 2013 | country Belgium, France, Belize
producer Sint-Lukas School of Arts
[email protected]
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PS SAO PAULO
Two men are walking in the big city at night. They are
having the kind of conversation that only lost souls can
have.
director Leni Huyghe
FABRIC OF TIME
running time 15'
year 2013 | country Belgium, Brazil
Fabric of Time takes us to 1980s Hungary through
producer Leni Huyghe | [email protected]
sound recordings, photographs and performative
re-enactments of childhood. By means of a threelayered structure, the cinematic experiment implicitly
talks about the author's point of view on his family's
history and domestic conflict.
director Miki Ambrózy
running time 40'
producer Miki Ambrózy Film Productions
[email protected] | www.mikiambrozy.com
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WAVES
GOLVEN
The world is loud. It crisps, cackles, stomps and
rumbles and we are here to listen. We cry, sing and
shout and hear that we’re together. By opening our ears
we achieve new ways of experiencing. Waves is a trip
THING
through the silence of a room and the noise of the city.
An architect talks about the city he has built.
director Nina de Vroome
Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. His
account is an attempt to give his ideas a fixed shape.
running time 30'
producer Nina de Vroome | [email protected]
E
director Anouk De Clercq
running time | 18'
producer Auguste Orts | [email protected]
www.augusteorts.be
E
ALSO AVAILABLE
Shimi
Semalu
eccentric and attractive Mairi, their new-formed
Cheras, a suburb in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
When Keely, a lonely 16-year-old, meets the
friendship starts to get a frighting dimension when
Keely is getting obsessed with Mairi.
20' | Kate Maveau | [email protected]
E
A cinematic portrait of the abandoned children of
19'40" | Jimmy Hendrickx | [email protected]
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Tokyo Giants
Two Bastards in Beijing
streets of Tokyo in search for the mystery of reality.
a film. They want to recreate a shot, but are prevented
all have in common that their paths cross and merge
spiral out of control and into excessive partying.
Provost takes his hidden camera to the hyperkinetic
Ivo and Joni go to China with the intention of making
A serial killer, a rapist, a terrorist, a cult, the Yakuza,
from doing so because of the weather conditions. They
into a powerful climax that can not be resolved.
24' 23” | Joni Schoonjans, Ivo Neefjes
[email protected]
22' | Nicolas Provost | [email protected]
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ANIMATION
DIAMOND
Diamond looks for the true nature of the world outside
us. The fact that each individual has his own perception
of reality, and there is only one, requires us to examine
the glasses through which we look at our environment.
BIO
director Kris Mergan
One day, all the poultry has dissapeared by gluttony
producer Mergans Telewerk | [email protected]
of people. The film is about the mass consumption
of animals and by switching the lives of men and
animals, we suddenly feel uncomfortable about how
these creatures live their lives every day.
director Leen Asselman
producer KASK School of Arts
[email protected] | kask.be
A
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www.lionangel.be
A
CASH REGISTER 9
KASSA 9
Cashier Olga spends her days unnoticed in the
supermarket. An insignificant incident upsets her daily
rut. For a spell we get a glimpse of her private dreams.
VOL AU VENT
director Anna Heuninck
plane up into the air. But the wind drops and the
[email protected] | [email protected]
Somewhere in an autumn park, a boy throws a paper
plane lands in the hair of a knitting old lady.
director Isabel Bouttens
running time 8' 31"
A
running time 7’
year 2014 country Belgium
producer Lunanime | [email protected]
www.lunanime.be
sales Lumière | [email protected]
www.lumiere.be
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ONE, TWO,
THREE, PIANO!
EÉN, TWEE, DRIE, PIANO!
The rules of the game are simple: the first player that
reaches the gameleader wins. Only move when she's
DAY_6011
not watching, or you’ll have to start all over again.
After being alone on guard for more than 6,000 days,
an elite robotic soldier encounters his first contact.
But things don’t go as planned...
director Nienke Deutz
running time 5'05"
[email protected]
director Raf Wathion
running time 14' 27”
producer Zonderling
[email protected] | www.zonderling.be
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ALSO AVAILABLE
850 meters
Little Ryan
fortune. To reach his goal, the knight is ready to go
he sees up in the sky. He wants to fly just like them.
A not-so-brave Knight is on a quest for fame and
far. Maybe even as far as 850 meters…
A small bird has a limitless admiration for the airplanes
4' | Aad Verstraelen | [email protected]
15’ | Joeri Christiaen | [email protected]
A
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Kookoo
When a butterfly lands in a desolate landscape,
a hump grows in the sand underneath it, and a
character is born out of the earth.
9'47" | Hilaire Van den Broeck | [email protected]
A
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Mind Trip
Toby is lying in a coma with his conscience trapped
in a dreamlike world. He gets hospital visits from his
girlfriend. Her actions in the real world affect his inner
body experience.
A
3’ 33” | Sander van Kessel |
[email protected]
A
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Norman
Orlando’s Book
details and strange habits. Nervous and alone, he
who grew up on mission stations in southern Africa in
Norman looks too hard. He is obsessed by small
wanders the city.
10' | Robbe Vervaeke | [email protected]
A
the 19th century.
3’ 52” | Wendy Morris | [email protected]
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One for the Road
Tortured by a broken heart Thierry attempts to
commit suicide. However, Grim Reaper arrives late.
11’ | Lander Ceuppens | [email protected]
A
A book of English landscapes was awarded to a boy
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A
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The Wake
The story of an introverted man whose wife is in a coma
after a car accident.
20’ | Pieter Coudyzer | [email protected]
A
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available in the clermont-ferrand
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fiction short
A
animation short
D
documentary short
available for online viewing
E
experimental short
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