lgbtx
EFM 2018
features
PITCH / Three brothers trying to save the family’s fishing business are driven to desperate measures.
GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Gilles Coulier
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SCRIPTED BY / Gilles Coulier, Tom Dupont
CAST / Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert, Sebastien Dewaele,
Chiel Vande Vyvere, Josse De Pauw, Roland Van Campenhout LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 91’ PRODUCTION / Gilles Coulier, Wouter Sap, Gilles De Schryver / De Wereldvrede YEAR / 2017 CONTACT / Bram Versteyhe / bram@dewereldvrede.be INTL SALES / Wide Management / ma@widemanagement.com
CARGO ORIGINAL TITLE / CARGO
is a 15-year-old girl born in a boy’s body who wants to become a ballerina.
IN POST-PRODUCTION
PITCH / Lara
GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Lukas Dhont
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SCRIPTED BY / Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens CAST / Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 100’
PRODUCTION / Dirk Impens / Menuet STATUS / in post-production
CONTACT / Dirk Impens / info@menuet.be ETA / Autumn 2018
GIRL ORIGINAL TITLE / GIRL
and literary icon, 55-yearold Jan Meerman’s successful life is thrown upside down when his 85-year-old mother, Josée Verbeke, unexpectedly has a severe stroke. Jan no longer recognises his once lively mother as her verbal witticisms have been replaced by pitiful cries and gibberish. Faced with this decline, he loses his grip on both his personal and professional life.
GENRE / drama
wants to break the boundaries of the stereotypical concept of femininity. The director returns to her childhood where she starts questioning herself.
GENRE / documentary short
PITCH / Writer
SPEECHLESS
DIRECTED BY / Hilde Van Mieghem
SCRIPTED BY / Hilde Van Mieghem, Bert Scholiers CAST / Stany Crets, Viviane De Muynck LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 100’
PRODUCTION / Caviar YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Alexandra Jans / alexandra.jans@caviar.tv
ORIGINAL TITLE / SPRAKELOOS
short
PITCH / Girlhood
DIRECTED BY / Heleen Declercq DOP / Heleen Declercq
EDITING / Judith Granville
MUSIC / Steffi Sturm, Clara Sinephro LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 14’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Laikin Chang / laikin.chang@ehb.be
GIRLHOOD ORIGINAL TITLE / GIRLHOOD
PITCH / Astrid,
IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT ORIGINAL TITLE / AL WAS HET MAAR VOOR EVEN
a young artist, has turned her back on the world and, in a deserted landscape, works on a piece of land-art. Days pass and her loneliness becomes stifling until she meets eccentric geologist Emily. Quickly they form a deep connection. Far away from the real world, in a wild and beautiful environment, they can fantasise, dream and philosophise carelessly. Their lives seem temporarily idyllic.
GENRE / drama short
PITCH / Christmas
GENRE / drama
Eve in the obscure rendezvous hotel Petit Ami. 20-year old Jasper meets the older and mysterious Vincent. For Jasper this is a date like any other, but then he discovers the secret that Vincent carries with him.
DIRECTED BY / Sophie Kurpershoek SCRIPTED BY / Sophie Kurpershoek
CAST / Charlotte De Bruyne, Sallie Harmsen EDITING / Pieter De Naegel
MUSIC / Michel Coquette, Ruben De Winther LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 30’
PRODUCER / Sophie Kurpershoek YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Sophie Kurpershoek /
sophiekurpershoek@gmail.com
DIRECTED BY / Anthony Schatteman SCRIPTED BY / Anthony Schatteman
CAST / Ezra Fieremans, Thomas Ryckewaert DOP / Ruben Appeltans
EDITING / Thijs Van Nuffel
MUSIC / Benjamien Lycke LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 13’
PRODUCER / Sven Spur
PETIT AMI
CONTACT / +32 474 49 6040
ORIGINAL TITLE / PETIT AMI
PITCH / A
robot, unhappy with the way he looks, decides he wants to change gender.
GENRE / animation, drama, science fiction DIRECTED BY / Zander Meykens SCRIPTED BY / Zander Meykens LANGUAGE / No dialogues
VAF WILDCARD 2017
RUNNING TIME / 6’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Laikin Chang / laikin.chang@ehb.be
XYXX
doc-series
ORIGINAL TITLE / XYXX
PITCH / They
M/V/X ORIGINAL TITLE / M/V/X
are physically male or female but do not feel that way: their gender identity does not fully or only partially correspond to their physical birth gender. Or as the 18-year-old Senne puts it: “You are transgender, you will not be.” In M/V/X we are witnessing the difficult journey Ariane, Dylano, Senne, Selina and Paulien make to become the man / woman they have always been.
GENRE / reality documentary series LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 4x 35’
PRODUCTION / Sputnik Media YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / +32 230 8810
SALES INFO / sputnikmedia.be/portfolio/m-v-x/
market première
flandersimage.com BERLIN 2018 I EFM Booth G4
Flanders Image / p/a Flanders Film House Bischoffsheimlaan 38 / 1000 Brussels / Belgium/EU T +32 2 226 0630 / E flandersimage@vaf.be
1 first feature
PUBLISHED BY FLANDERS IMAGE, THE AUDIOVISUAL EXPORT AGENCY COMPILED AND EDITED BY Jasper Nijsmans / Christian De Schutter / An Ratinckx / Jo Roddick / Nick Roddick / DESIGN Karin Pays
With thanks to the producers who supplied information. All stills copyrighted by the respective producers. For full cast and crew info as well as photo credits: flandersimage.com