THE BEST OF BELGIAN CINEMA Co-productions, institutions, festivals, vital forces: OPEN YOUR EYES TO BELGIAN CINEMA BY BAS DEVOS, PANORAMA SECTION magazine_be_screen_berlin.indd 1 25/01/19 10:20 EDITO Belgium on the big screen #2 For many years, Belgian talent has been festival and share their passion in a professional well represented in the main European fi lm context that is particularly enriching. festivals and this fi ne tradition will be upheld By The Name of Tania (Mary Jiménez, co-director) © DR By The Name of Tania (Bénédicte Liénard, co-director) once again at the 69 th edition of the Berlinale, Although far from exhaustive yet as one of the most important fi lm representative as possible, events in the world. 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([email protected]) Nathalie Walgraffe Olivier Clinckart ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Thierry Van Wayenbergh BE.SCREEN Cover: Poster of "Hellhole" ([email protected]) ISSN: 2593-4902 By The Name of Tania - © DR SOMMAIRE | | 3 magazine_be_screen_berlin.indd 2-3 25/01/19 10:20 TABLE OF CONTENTS #2 5 Berlinale 2019 #2 6 Competittion - God exists, her name is Petrunija By Teona Strugar Mitevska 7 Panorama - Hellhole by Bas Devos 8 Generation 14Plus - By the name of Tania By Bénédicte Liénard 9 Short Films Generation KPlus - Dernier jour d'automne By Marjolaine Perreten - Zibilla ou la vie zébrée By Isabelle Favez 10 Forum - Retrospekt By Esther Rots 11 Alexia Depicker, Belgian talent in Berlin - Valéry Rosier, Happy director 13 Institutions 14 The Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the ideal film location BER 17 Wallonia,cinema par excellence since 1999 19 Screen Flanders: Flanders in the spotlight 21 screen.brussels: a kingdom for co-productions 23 The Centre du Cinéma, cornerstone of funding schemes 24 Wallonie Bruxelles Images: a strong presence at the Marché du Film - Belgian (co) Wallonie-Bruxelles International: an institution that builds bridges 25 Festivals productions 26 FIFF,a meeting place and breeding ground for creativity 28 The Film Fest Gent: 45 years of passion 30 Stereopsia, the virtual immersion festival in the various 31 BRIFF: A new festival for Brussels 32 The BIF(FF) Market, a forum for exchanges on genre films. 33 Leuven Short Film festival : long live the short film! sections of the 34 Ramdam: the « disturbing » yet delightful film festival LIN 35 Best of Belgium Berlinale 36 Lukas Dhont: female/male success 38 Guillaume Senez: focus on fatherhood 40 The films of Henri Roanne-Rosenblatt 41 Arlette Zylberberg,a passionate producer at RTBF 42 Diana Elbaum : the love of the profession, diversification of genres, the strength of the content 43 Be tv : a channel unleashed in the support of film 44 Studio L’Equipe: the Crème de la crème in Post-production 45 INSAS, a Brussels breeding ground for the talent of tomorrow 46 ESRA Brussels: an international school 47 Brussels opens its European House of Authors 48 Cinergie, Belgian cinema’s webzine - CinéFemme, a woman’s perspective of cinema ALE 49 Imagine... all the people September in February at the Berlinale 50 The PR Factory's Fab Four 2019 4 | | TABLE OF CONTENTS SOMMAIRE | | 5 magazine_be_screen_berlin.indd 4-5 25/01/19 10:20 COMPETITION PANORAMA © sistersandbrothermitevski Alba Rohrwacher #2 #2 God exists, her name is Hellhole Petrunija Belgium / Netherlands - 87' by Bas Devos with Willy Thomas, Alba Rohrwacher, Lubna Azabal, Hamza Belarbi Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija World premiere Macedonia / Belgium / Slovenia / Croatia / France Three starkly diff erent people deal with the aftermath of Authentic stories by Teona Strugar Mitevska with Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2016. A Flemish The Brussels-based production company Minds Meet was doctor, whose son is a fi ghter jet pilot on a mission in the Simeon Moni Damevski, Suad Begovski. World premiere founded in 2004. In its manifesto, the company describes Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young itself as « a self-propelled entity drifting in search of authentic man from Algerian descent is asked by his brother to do Every 19th January, during Epiphany, the high priest throws a more than 20 international awards. Her latest fi lmWhen The stories and emotions. It is inserting itself as an active force him a deceivingly simple favour. An Italian woman, who cross into the local waters, while hundreds of men charge for Day Had No Name premiered in the Panorama section at the within the projects it chooses to engage and to those that works in the heart of the European Institutions, is slowly it. The one who fi nds it is believed to be blessed for the whole 2017 Berlinale. surround it. The production is a pleasure and joy which it losing control under the pressure of her demanding life. next year, and becomes a kind of a local hero. Returning home must stay ». from a failed job interview, Petrunija decides to jump into the Belgian co-production The same question that seems to haunt the city, looms over ice-cold water wanting to be the blessed one for a change. She their lives, where do we go from here? God exists, her name is Petrunija is once again As managing producer of Minds Meet, Tomas Leyers has wins the cross, but now she has to fi ght the local men, the world A wounded city co-produced in Belgium by Entre Chien et Loup, with support produced 11 feature fi lms, co-produced more than 12 feature and the whole system for her right to keep it. from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’s Centre du Cinéma et In his second feature (and 4 years after Violet , his fi rst fi lms and several shorts and documentaries since. With a de l’Audiovisuel. In parallel, this is the fi rst time that Macedonia feature which won an award at Berlin in the Generation focus on European art-house cinema, he has got fi lms selected Back at the Berlinale is part of the main competition at one of the most prestigious 14plus section), the Belgian fi lmmaker Bas Devos paints in festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Toronto. Acclaimed Brussels-based Macedonian director Teona Strugar fi lm festivals in the world. the portrait of a wounded city in enigmatic images: at its Marc Goyens, the company's C.O.O., joined the team in 2008. Mitevska is presenting her fi fth feature fi lm. She is a regular centre stand Brussels and the haunting stories of the city’s guest at the Berlinale, where her three previous fi lms have been Based in Brussels, Entre Chien et Loup was founded in 1989. lost souls. Recently, Minds Meet has co-produced the internationally screened in parallel programmes. This year marks her fi rst Its production policy focuses on high quality content. In both acclaimed Insyriated, by Philippe Van Leeuw. appearance in the Competition section. feature and documentary fi lm, its production philosophy Bas was born in 1983 in Zoersel in the Dutch-speaking part remains fi rmly committed to this principle. of Belgium. He went to fi lm school on a hunch. « I didn't Hellhole is also supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund Teona was born in 1974 in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2001, she know so much about fi lm and I’m still not a cinephile », (VAF), Phanta Vision (NL) and Taxshelter.be. fi nished the Master of Film Arts programme at New York Entre Chien et Loup remains faithful to its basic intention: he once said. But halfway through his studies at Sint-Lukas University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. She made making fi lms that combine a committed style of direction, of in Brussels he realised that this was his medium: « I got her directorial debut in 2001 with the short fi lm Veta, which authorship and of topic, a strong sense of cinematography, a strong sense that here was a something I could only say received the Special Jury award at the Berlin International and the appropriate production that allows for their fullest through fi lm.