France’s Indie Sales has picked up Come Back, the directorial debut from Flemish brothers Jan and Raf Roosens starring Veerle Baetens and her real-life daughter Billie Vlegels.
The film is in post and Indie Sales is launching it at the European Film Market later this month. Kinepolis Film Distribution is handling the Belgian release.
Vlegels plays the teenage daughter of a once-successful techno DJ couple, living with her father after her parents’ divorce. When her mother (Baetens) sets off to make an international comeback, her daughter is thrust into the nocturnal club scene world and finds herself torn between...
The film is in post and Indie Sales is launching it at the European Film Market later this month. Kinepolis Film Distribution is handling the Belgian release.
Vlegels plays the teenage daughter of a once-successful techno DJ couple, living with her father after her parents’ divorce. When her mother (Baetens) sets off to make an international comeback, her daughter is thrust into the nocturnal club scene world and finds herself torn between...
- 2/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
‘Girl’ and ’Close’ director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five.
Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from the region’s creatives including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.
Girl and Close director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five, who will be presented to international industry attending Connext in Antwerp on the event’s first day. The initiative is in association with Screen International.
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Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from the region’s creatives including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.
Girl and Close director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five, who will be presented to international industry attending Connext in Antwerp on the event’s first day. The initiative is in association with Screen International.
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- 9/19/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
‘Girl’ and ’Close’ director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five.
Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from regional filmmakers including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.
Girl and Close director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five, who will be presented to international industry attending Connext in Antwerp on the event’s first day. The initiative is in association with Screen International.
Scroll down for line-ups
Among...
Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from regional filmmakers including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.
Girl and Close director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five, who will be presented to international industry attending Connext in Antwerp on the event’s first day. The initiative is in association with Screen International.
Scroll down for line-ups
Among...
- 9/19/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The prize is an extension of Critics’ Week Next Step programme helping filmmakers progress from shorts to features.
UK director Molly Manning Walker has won the €5,000 Critics’ Weeks Next Step prize for her upcoming first feature How To Have Sex.
In its third edition, the prize is an extension of the Critics’ Week Next Step programme aimed at helping filmmakers whose shorts have previously played in the parallel section to make their debut feature.
The first two winners were Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti with The Woodcutter Story and French director Camille Degeye with Sphinx.
This year’s jury was made up of Carole Baraton,...
UK director Molly Manning Walker has won the €5,000 Critics’ Weeks Next Step prize for her upcoming first feature How To Have Sex.
In its third edition, the prize is an extension of the Critics’ Week Next Step programme aimed at helping filmmakers whose shorts have previously played in the parallel section to make their debut feature.
The first two winners were Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti with The Woodcutter Story and French director Camille Degeye with Sphinx.
This year’s jury was made up of Carole Baraton,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Initiative supports short film directors move into features.
UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker has been revealed as one of 10 directors participating in the 2020 digital edition of the Next Step programme of Cannes Critics’ Week with her project How To Have Sex.
The other directors are: Spain’s Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’s Forestera, Portugal’s Duarte Coimbra with The Jacaranda Storm, Canada’s Graham Foy with The Maiden, France’s Naïla Guiguet with Alyson, Azerbaijan’s Teymur Hajiyev with Man In A Blue Sweater, Brazil’s Lillah Halla with Ainda, Belgium’s Jaf & Raf Roosens with Beats of Love and China...
UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker has been revealed as one of 10 directors participating in the 2020 digital edition of the Next Step programme of Cannes Critics’ Week with her project How To Have Sex.
The other directors are: Spain’s Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’s Forestera, Portugal’s Duarte Coimbra with The Jacaranda Storm, Canada’s Graham Foy with The Maiden, France’s Naïla Guiguet with Alyson, Azerbaijan’s Teymur Hajiyev with Man In A Blue Sweater, Brazil’s Lillah Halla with Ainda, Belgium’s Jaf & Raf Roosens with Beats of Love and China...
- 12/10/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
New films from Vincent Bal, Koen Mortier and Caroline Strubbe among 47 films at virtual showcase.
A new drama from Cannes award-winner Lukas Dhont (Girl) and a film produced in lockdown by Milo Rau are among 47 projects to be showcased at Re>Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image.
The event, which serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders, will run online from October 5-31 after the physical showcase was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Usually taking place over three days under the banner Connext, the virtual edition has been...
A new drama from Cannes award-winner Lukas Dhont (Girl) and a film produced in lockdown by Milo Rau are among 47 projects to be showcased at Re>Connext, the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image.
The event, which serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders, will run online from October 5-31 after the physical showcase was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Usually taking place over three days under the banner Connext, the virtual edition has been...
- 9/15/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Abderrahmane Sissako to head the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury.
With the Official Selection of features for the 68th Cannes Film Festival set to be revealed tomorrow (April 16), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 4,550 short films – 1,000 more than in 2014 – from more than 100 countries.
Nine films (including one animation) will compete for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Timbuktu director Abderrahmane Sissako, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 24.
Short Films In Competition:
Waves ’98
dir: Ely Dagher (Lebanon, Qatar)
The Guests
dir: Shane Danielsen (Australia)
Sali (Tuesday)
dir: Ziya Demirel (Turkey, France)
Le Repas Dominical (Sunday Lunch)
dir: Céline Devaux (France)
Love Is Blind
dir: Dan Hodgson (UK)
Ave Maria
dir: Basil Khalil (Palestine, France, Germany)
Copain (Buddy)
dir: Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens (Belgium)
Patriot
dir: Eva Riley (UK)
Presente Imperfecto (Present Imperfect)
dir: Iair Said...
With the Official Selection of features for the 68th Cannes Film Festival set to be revealed tomorrow (April 16), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 4,550 short films – 1,000 more than in 2014 – from more than 100 countries.
Nine films (including one animation) will compete for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Timbuktu director Abderrahmane Sissako, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 24.
Short Films In Competition:
Waves ’98
dir: Ely Dagher (Lebanon, Qatar)
The Guests
dir: Shane Danielsen (Australia)
Sali (Tuesday)
dir: Ziya Demirel (Turkey, France)
Le Repas Dominical (Sunday Lunch)
dir: Céline Devaux (France)
Love Is Blind
dir: Dan Hodgson (UK)
Ave Maria
dir: Basil Khalil (Palestine, France, Germany)
Copain (Buddy)
dir: Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens (Belgium)
Patriot
dir: Eva Riley (UK)
Presente Imperfecto (Present Imperfect)
dir: Iair Said...
- 4/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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