In production November 2010
EAVE 1994 graduate Diana Elbaum shooting THE MEANING OF OUR SUFFERING in France and Belgium
- The second feature of Moldavian filmmaker Igor Cobileanski, EAVE 2009 project FLYING LESSONS, began filming 17 October 2010. The film is based on a script written by Corneliu Porumboiu (POLICE, ADJECTIVE) and Cobileanski, and is produced by EAVE 2009 graduate Alexandru Teodorescu and the Romanian company Saga Film.
www.sagafilm.ro
- THE MEANING OF OUR SUFFERING (“Le Sens de nos peines”), the debut feature by Stéphane Cazes started shooting. Co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, production companies: Dibona Films and Arsam International. The film tackles the subject of motherhood in a prison environment. The script centres on Ombline, a young woman of around 20, who is imprisoned for a four-year sentence when she is two months pregnant. Pre-bought by Canal + and CinéCinéma, the film has also received an advance on receipts from the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC), as well as backing from the Midi-Pyrénées region, the Gan Foundation, the Belgian French Community and Bruxelles Images. Shooting will last until December 22 in France (at Saint-Michel prison in Toulouse) and Belgium.
www.entrechienetloup.be
- THE FISHERMAN by Sylvain Estibal finished shooting in Cologne. Produced by Marylin Productions, the film is co-produced by Belgium’s Saga Film of EAVE 1998/99 graduate Hubert Toint, Germany’s Barry Film and StudioCanal. The story is about a Palestinian fisherman who hauls up in his nets a pig, which has fallen from a cargo ship. Wanting to get rid of this impure animal, he tries to sell it in order to improve his impoverished life. This plunges him into some hilarious situations, which reflect the irony of daily life for Palestinians, caught between Israeli oppression and Islamic extremism. The film has backing from Eurimages, the Franco-German mini-treaty, NRW Fund and Malta Film Commission.
www.cineuropa.org
- THE INVADER by Nicolas Provost is shooting his first feature film in Brussels. The thriller produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart is about an anti-heroic African immigrant and his struggle for economic and emotional survival in the new world. Provost developed the project at Binger (2006) and presented it successfully at IFFR’s CineMart a year later.
www.versusproduction.be
Page published 17 November 2010. Updated 25 November 2010.
