lgbt+ features
PITCH / The story of a 15-year-old
girl born in a boy’s body, ready to risk everything to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina.
CANNES 2018 GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Lukas Dhont
SCRIPTED BY / Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens CAST / Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 100’
PRODUCTION / Dirk Impens / Menuet YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / Dirk Impens / info@menuet.be INTL SALES / The Match Factory /
GIRL
info@matchfactory.de
ORIGINAL TITLE / GIRL
shorts
PITCH / A young woman searches
for her personal definition of gender, her sexual orientation and their impact on her surroundings.
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Heleen Declercq SCRIPTED BY / Heleen Declercq LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 14’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Heleen Declercq / heleendeclercq@gmail.com
GIRLHOOD
ORIGINAL TITLE / GIRLHOOD
PITCH / In a deserted landscape
young artist Astrid battles with her loneliness. When she meets eccentric geologist Emily, they form a deep connection...
GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Sophie Kurpershoek
SCRIPTED BY / Sophie Kurpershoek
CAST / Charlotte De Bruyne, Sallie Harmsen LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 30’
PRODUCTION / Sophie Kurpershoek YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Sophie Kurpershoek / sophiekurpershoek@gmail.com
IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT
ORIGINAL TITLE / AL WAS HET MAAR VOOR EVEN
PITCH / Christmas Eve in the obscure
rendezvous hotel Petit Ami. Twentyyear-old Jasper meets the older, mysterious Vincent...
GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Anthony Schatteman SCRIPTED BY / Anthony Schatteman
CAST / Ezra Fieremans, Thomas Ryckewaert LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 13’
PRODUCTION / Sven Spur
CONTACT / Anthony Schatteman / schattemananthony@gmail.com
PETIT AMI
ORIGINAL TITLE / PETIT AMI
PITCH / A summer vacation in Provence proves a turning point for 11-year-old Camille and her older brother Tuur.
GENRE / coming-of-age, drama DIRECTED BY / Kato De Boeck SCRIPTED BY / Kato De Boeck
CAST / Laime De Paep, Pelle Adriaenssens,
Otis Domen, Jente Van Den Brenk, Talitha de Boer
LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 23’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts
CONTACT / Kato De Boeck / katodeboeck@hotmail.com
PROVENCE
ORIGINAL TITLE / PROVENCE 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 dialogue RUNNING TIME / 6’
PRODUCTION / RITCS School of Arts YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Zander Meykens / zander_1994@hotmail.com
XYXX
ORIGINAL TITLE / XYXX
doc-series
PITCH / They 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. We witness the difficult journey Ariane, Dylano, Senne, Selina and Paulien make to become the man/woman they have always been.
GENRE / reality documentary series DIRECTED BY / Nathalie Lippens LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 4 x 35’
PRODUCTION / Sputnik Media YEAR / 2018
SALES / Sputnik Media / sputnikmedia.be
M/V/X
ORIGINAL TITLE / M/V/X
passionate romance during a holiday in Senegal: a world-renowned but discredited sportsman and a young prostitute whose only hope is to escape her situation and survive.
SCRIPTED BY / Koen Mortier, based on a novel by
Dimitri Verhulst
CAST / Vincent Rottiers, Fatou N’Diaye LANGUAGE / French, Dutch, Wolof RUNNING TIME / 103’
PRODUCTION / Eurydice Gysel / Czar Film & TV YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / Eurydice Gysel / eurydice.gysel@czar.be
PITCH / Individuals wait, silence
GENRE / psychological thriller
DIRECTED BY / Mathieu Mortelmans 1 SCRIPTED BY / Jan Pepermans, Stephanie Van Hecke CAST / Spencer Bogaert, Bjarne Devolder, Tine Reymer, Koen De Bouw LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 115’ PRODUCTION / Yoshi Aesaert / Marmalade STATUS / in post-production, ETA October 2018 CONTACT / Marmalade /
BASTARD
is heard, a microscopic attention registers through a tired mass...
PITCH / Dorien has every reason to
be happy. But when she discovers a year-long affair among her parents and her husband turns out to be very close with a colleague, she begins to doubt herself. A phone call bearing bad news is the last straw.
GENRE / dramedy
DIRECTED BY / Anke Blondé
SCRIPTED BY / Anke Blondé,
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem CAST / Kim Snauwaert, Jelle De Beule, Katelijne Verbeke, Dirk van Dijck LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 100’ PRODUCTION / Dries Phlypo / A Private View STATUS / in post-production, ETA 2019
CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / dries@aprivateview.be
INTL SALES / Be For Films / pamela@beforfilms.com
short
through the window of a Molenbeek barber shop in the aftermath of the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks, and the reflections of its customers of North African origin.
DIRECTED BY / Sahim Omar Kalifa
SCRIPTED BY / Bart Maes, Sahim Omar Kalifa
LANGUAGE / French, Darija, Berber, Classic Arabic RUNNING TIME / 54’
PRODUCTION / Zonderling YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / Bart Maes / bart@zonderling.be
ORIGINAL TITLE / CORNERED IN MOLENBEEK
PITCH / Ours Is a Country of Words
GENRE / experimental documentary
begins at an undetermined moment in the future, when the dream of Palestinian refugees to go back to Palestine becomes reality. The film treads a thin line between fiction and documentary, dream and reality.
RUNNING TIME / 12’
CONTACT / Mieriën Coppens /
coppens_mierien@hotmail.com
PITCH / In September 2000 Robert Z.
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Kinshuk Surjan
was given permission by the National Museum in Poznań, Poland, to copy Claude Monet’s painting Beach in Pourville. In this revealing film, he talks for the first time about the events and consequences of that day in the Museum.
LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 29’
PRODUCTION / LUCA School of Arts YEAR / 2017
CONTACT / Kinshuk Surjan /
kinshuk.surjan@gmail.com
DE FLANDRIEN
ORIGINAL TITLE / DE FLANDRIEN
adults, everyone in the village of Tollembeek has lost their savings. Urbanus and the children revolt and take power.
ORIGINAL TITLE / URBANUS, DE VUILNISHELD
PITCH / Ploey, an energetic and lively
DIRECTED BY / Mathijs Poppe
plover chick, likes running through the meadows and playing in the fields with his best friend Ploveria. But when autumn comes and the annual migration south occurs, he is left behind...
SCRIPTED BY / Mathijs Poppe
CAST / Jamal Hendawi, Mohammad Abbas,
DIRECTED BY / Amir Yatziv, Guy Slabbinck
an 8+ family audience on an entertaining journey based on humanity’s challenging relationship with Nature.
SCRIPTED BY / Amir Yatziv RUNNING TIME / 52’
PRODUCTION / Czar Film & TV YEAR / 2018
CANNES 2018 I Booth Rivièra A2
Flanders Image / Flanders Film House Bischoffsheimlaan 38 / 1000 Brussels / Belgium/EU T +32 2 226 0630 / E flandersimage@vaf.be
GENRE / animation, adventure, family
DIRECTED BY / Ives Agemans, Árni Ásgeirsson SCRIPTED BY / Friðrik Erlingsson CAST / Jamie Oram LANGUAGE / English RUNNING TIME / 80’
PRODUCTION / Ives Agemans / Cyborn YEAR / 2018
GENRE / animation, family, adventure
DIRECTED BY / Kristoff Leue, Dimitri Leue, Thomas Ceulemans SCRIPTED BY / Kristoff Leue, Dimitri Leue CAST / Tine Reymer, Matteo Simoni, Wim Helsen, Wouter Hendrickx, Warre Borgmans, Frank Focketeyn LANGUAGE / Dutch
CONTACT / Kaat Camerlynck /
RUNNING TIME / 90’
kaat.camerlynck@czar.be
PRODUCTION / Peter De Maegd / Potemkino
ZOOKS
ORIGINAL TITLE / ZOOks
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GENRE / animation, comedy DIRECTED BY / Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch (animation), Vincent Bal SCRIPTED BY / Jimmy Simons, Urbain Servranckx CAST / Urbain Servranckx, Sven De Ridder, Ben Segers, Frances Lefebure, Sien Eggers, Dimitri Leue, Pieter Embrechts, Ron Cornet LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 75’ PRODUCTION / Peter Bouckaert / Eyeworks Film & TV Drama STATUS / in production, Release February 2019 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.be
mhemminger@arri.de
PITCH / An eco adventure taking
LANGUAGE / Polish, English
STANDBY PAINTER
Ruth Beeckmans, Titus De Voogdt, Mourade Zeguendi, Katelijne Damen, Damiaan De Schrijver LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 90’ PRODUCTION / Helena Vlogaert, Bo De Group / Caviar YEAR / 2018 CONTACT / Bo De Group / bo.degroup@caviar.tv INTL SALES / Attraction Distribution / xiao88@attraction.ca
INTL SALES / ARRI Media International /
ORIGINAL TITLE / PLOEY – YOU NEVER FLY ALONE
ORIGINAL TITLE / STANDBY PAINTER
GENRE / family DIRECTED BY / Dorothée van den Berghe SCRIPTED BY / Michael De Cock CAST / Savannah Vandendriessche, Imad Borji,
CONTACT / Iris Delafortry / iris@cyborn.be
PLOEY – YOU NEVER FLY ALONE
OURS IS A COUNTRY OF WORDS
SCRIPTED BY / Kinshuk Surjan
PITCH / Because of the greed of the
CASH FOR TRASH
Mohammad Zayat, Naim Abbas, Mohammad Hassan RUNNING TIME / 42’ PRODUCTION / KASK School of Arts YEAR / 2017 CONTACT / Elisa Heene / elisa.heene@gmail.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / OURS IS A COUNTRY OF WORDS
competitive cycling milieu of Flanders, Matthias Vandenborre, a talented young cyclist, must race with his father’s and grandfather’s expectations, week after week, in every race.
feature ORIGINAL TITLE / ROSIE & MOUSSA
PITCH / A neo-realistic essay seen
PRODUCTION / Mieriën Coppens
PITCH / Growing up in the hyper
ROSIE & MOUSSA
SALES / Some Shorts / info@someshorts.com
CORNERED IN MOLENBEEK
YEAR / 2017
1
children’s books by Michael De Cock and Judith Vanistendael in which Rosie meets Moussa when she and her mother move to a new apartment building on the other side of town.
PRODUCTION / Rana Films, De Chinezen YEAR / 2018
DIRECTED BY / Mieriën Coppens
ORIGINAL TITLE / CARRY ON
CANNES 2018
PITCH / A movie based on the
RUNNING TIME / 14’
SCRIPTED BY / Mieriën Coppens
CARRY ON
info@marmaladecontent.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / BASTAARD
THE BEST OF DORIEN B.
juanitaonzaga@gmail.com SALES / Some Shorts / info@someshorts.com
FLANDERS WILDCARDS
the homeless Radja to stay in their house as a replacement for their dead brother, fractured family relationships dissolve even further.
SCRIPTED BY / Juanita Onzaga
SCRIPTED BY / Juanita Onzaga
CAST / Eliseo Pino Chaverra, Camilo Chaverra Cordoba, Roberto Erlin Machado Cordoba LANGUAGE / Spanish
YEAR / 2018
ORIGINAL TITLE / NUESTRA CANCIÓN A LA GUERRA
PITCH / When Daan and Nina invite
GENRE / hybrid documentary
DIRECTED BY / Juanita Onzaga CAST / Eliseo Pino Chaverra, Camilo Chaverra Cordoba, Roberto Erlin Machado Cordoba LANGUAGE / Spanish RUNNING TIME / 14’ PRODUCTION / Rana Films, De Chinezen CONTACT / Juanita Onzaga /
OUR SONG TO WAR
ORIGINAL TITLE / UN ANGE
ORIGINAL TITLE / THE BEST OF DORIEN B.
about Bojaya, a river town in Colombia where the villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the Novenario death ritual.
about Bojaya, a river town in Colombia where the villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the Novenario death ritual.
OUR SONG TO WAR
ORIGINAL TITLE / NUESTRA CANCIÓN A LA GUERRA
CONTACT / Ben Tesseur / ben@beastanimation.com
PITCH / A short hybrid documentary
GENRE / drama
DIRECTED BY / Koen Mortier
DIRECTED BY / Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels SCRIPTED BY / Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels VOICE CAST / Jan Decleir, Wim Willaert, Goua Grovogui, Gaston Motambe, Angelo Tijssens, Sébastien Dewaele LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, Aka, Malinka RUNNING TIME / 44’ PRODUCTION / Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur, Koen Vermaanen / Beast Productions YEAR / 2018
ORIGINAL TITLE / CE MAGNIFIQUE GÂTEAU !
QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS
PITCH / Two lost souls have a
ANGEL
film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th-century telling the stories of five different characters.
THIS MAGNIFICENT CAKE!
info@matchfactory.de
DIRECTED BY / Juanita Onzaga
animated features
YEAR / 2018
CONTACT / Dirk Impens / info@menuet.be INTL SALES / The Match Factory /
kids
CANNES 2018
PITCH / A short hybrid documentary
QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS
1
LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 100’
PRODUCTION / Dirk Impens / Menuet
ORIGINAL TITLE / GIRL
GENRE / animated drama
mid-length
DIRECTED BY / Lukas Dhont
SCRIPTED BY / Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens CAST / Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter
PITCH / An animated anthology QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS
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girl born in a boy’s body, ready to risk everything to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina.
GIRL
CANNES 2018
CANNES 2018
GENRE / drama
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PITCH / The story of a 15-year-old
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