EAVE projects EGGG and LAILA M are shooting
In Production November 2015
- DON’T TELL HER by Solange Cicurel, producer: EAVE graduate Diana Elbaum is shooting. The comedy episode film poses the question, why is it that the more we love, the more we lie? This constitutes quite an array of existential questions that the characters of the debut film by Solange Cicurel will be forced to ask themselves. DON’T TELL HER is produced by Entre Chien et Loup and co-produced by RTBF, Proximus, Other Angle Pictures and Orange Studio, and has received backing from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Wallimage. The shoot will continue in Brussels until mid-October.
- WHEN MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH by Nicole van Kilsdonk, producers: EAVE graduates Léontine Petit, Sinisa Juricic, Tomas Leyers is shooting. The film conveys the experience of escaping war as told from the perspective of a 10 year-old girl. Filming started in Zagreb in September and will wrap end of October.
- EAVE project EGGG by Hanne Larsen, producers: EAVE graduates Kristin Ulseth and Charlotte Most is shooting. Eleven-year-old Gilbert has an extreme allergy to eggs, which he tries to keep secret from his new friends – but the problem is that Aunt Doris, his babysitter, gives him eggs on purpose. However, now he has planned to take his revenge on Christmas Eve.
- FREAKING by Julia Ducournau, producers: EAVE graduates Jean der Forêts started shooting in Liège. The film - a mix of comedy, drama and a horror – is written by the director. The main character in the story is 16-year-old Justine. All the members of her family are veterinary doctors and vegetarians. On her first day at vet school, she dramatically strays from her family principles when she eats meet, and she soon faces unexpected consequences when her true self arises.
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- EAVE project LAILA M by Mijke de Jong, producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings, co-producer: EAVE graduate Alexander Wadouh is shooting. The film is a Topkapi Fims production written by Jan Eilander, and is being co-produced by Menuet (Belgium) and Chromosom Filmproduktion (Germany). Support comes from Eurimages and Belgium’s VAF.
- LUXEMBOURG by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, producer: EAVE graduate and Russian National Coordinator Anna Katchko is in production. Billed as a film in the “neo-noir” vein, which will be shot on a set that reconstructs modern-day Chernobyl, Luxembourg’s lead characters are people who live in the exclusion zone, where an almost prehistoric kind of society has been born among the ruins of the disaster, in the midst of an endless nuclear winter. The movie will be co-produced by Ukraine, France, Norway and Germany, a major-scale international partnership that is actually a first in the history of Ukrainian film. The project has received the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the ARTE Prize at the CineMart Rotterdam.
- SCARRED HEARTS by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon is in production. Set in 1937 Romania, the story follows a young man with tuberculosis as he falls in love and attempts to make the most of his last days in a sanatorium. Inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher’s novel, the film is produced by HiFilm Productions, Komplizen Film and Still Moving.
- BYE-BYE GERMANY by Sam Gabarski, producers: EAVE graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges, EAVE graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE graduate Sebastien Delloye is shooting. Set in 1946 Germany, the comedy focuses on a group of Jewish men who are in business selling lingerie to the Germans as a way of making money for their passage to the US. Support comes from: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Eurimages and Film Fund Luxembourg. Shootinf on locations in Luxembourg, Germany, and Belgium is under way.
Page published 27 November 2015.
