PUENTES project LA HOLANDESA is in production
In Production November 2016
- HET TWEEDE GELAAT by Jan Verheyen, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert is in production. It is the third film to feature the characters of inspectors Vincke and Verstuyft, who rose to fame thanks to the national and international success of The Alzheimer Case and Dossier. The three movies are adaptations of crime novels written by Flemish author Jef Geeraerts. Once again, inspectors Vincke and Verstuyft are faced with a series of horrific murders, which they will have to get to the bottom of with the help of one of the killer’s surviving victims. That is, unless this victim, who appears to hold great sway over Verstuyft, leads them further from the solution.
- PUENTES project LA HOLANDESA by Marleen Jonkman, producer: Puentes graduate Danielle Guirguis is in production. Principal photography started in Chile at the end of October, and the first scenes have just been presented at TorinoFilmLab’s Work-In-Progress section within the TFL Meeting Event 2016. The plot: Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is now time to face the fact that they will never have children. However, Maud is in denial. After a huge fight with Frank, she runs off and sets out on a road trip through Chile, that will see her travel to the depths of despair, before eventually making peace with herself.
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- THE WILDNESS by Guérin Van De Vorst, producers: EAVE graduates Andrea Boussiou, Benoit Roland has begun shooting. The film depicts the personal journey of Ben, a 28-year-old offender in the midst of an existential crisis. Ben spent three years behind bars after a hold-up, and while he was there, he converted to Islam. Now that he’s out, what he wants most of all is to re-establish contact with his son, Samir. But Samir gave up waiting for him a long time ago, and Nadia, his ex-wife, no longer trusts him. Mustapha, his new “guru”, convinces him that he will never find his place in this society, thus intensifying his feeling of injustice. Ben tries his best to follow the norms and principles imposed on him by Mustapha, when one day he meets Lucie, who does nothing to help him adhere to them... Between rehabilitation work and minor repeat offences, Ben will fight hard to resist hatred, re-establish ties with his son and rediscover his dignity as a free man.
- PIARGY by Ivo Trajkov, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jozko Rutar is in production. The film, based on a short story by Slovak writer Frantisek Svantner, is set in the small mountain village of Piargy on the Slovak border in 1939. The mysterious drama about the rebirth of the Antichrist reflects on human suffering and is a metaphorical allusion to the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. The producers are still finalising the budget and have applied for a grant from the Macedonian Film Fund and are seeking a Ukrainian coproducer. The film, which is being shot in black and white, will have a 35-day shooting schedule.
Page published 29 November 2016.
