Notes for A Symposium
Director: Juliette Joffé
Feature experimental documentary
Status: Development
At the KVS theatre, young people — together with specially cast adults — create their own interpretation of Plato’s Symposium. Together, they explore what love means today and what role classical texts and cultural institutions can still play in our modern society.
Director: Juliette Joffé
Feature experimental documentary
Status: Development
At the KVS theatre, young people — together with specially cast adults — create their own interpretation of Plato’s Symposium. Together, they explore what love means today and what role classical texts and cultural institutions can still play in our modern society.
CELESTINO
Director: Hans Bryssinck
Feature Film
Status: Production (VAF)
A mentally unstable Belgian teacher who wants to re-invent himself ends up in a traditional Mexican Family. He tries to replace the brother whom he assumes to have passed away.
Director: Hans Bryssinck
Feature Film
Status: Production (VAF)
A mentally unstable Belgian teacher who wants to re-invent himself ends up in a traditional Mexican Family. He tries to replace the brother whom he assumes to have passed away.
NEOWISE
Director: Joy Mauritz
Documentary
Status: Post Production
NEOWISE is an intimate portrait of young people during a summer that seems endless. They experience the joy and fragility of youth, where friendships shift, loves ignite and fade, and small moments turn out to be unexpectedly profound. As their days drift by, the comet NEOWISE appears above them — a once-in-a-lifetime sight that mirrors the transience of their youth. A film in which the everyday and the cosmic converge.
Director: Joy Mauritz
Documentary
Status: Post Production
NEOWISE is an intimate portrait of young people during a summer that seems endless. They experience the joy and fragility of youth, where friendships shift, loves ignite and fade, and small moments turn out to be unexpectedly profound. As their days drift by, the comet NEOWISE appears above them — a once-in-a-lifetime sight that mirrors the transience of their youth. A film in which the everyday and the cosmic converge.
OF GODS AND DOGS
Director: Laurent Van Lancker
Feature Documentaire (minority coproduction with Roue Libre Productions)
Status: Post-Production
Ten migrants, locked up in the back of a truck, share their stories. Their stories resonate with those of the 19th century European migrations. The films mixes the migration stories of then and now.
Director: Laurent Van Lancker
Feature Documentaire (minority coproduction with Roue Libre Productions)
Status: Post-Production
Ten migrants, locked up in the back of a truck, share their stories. Their stories resonate with those of the 19th century European migrations. The films mixes the migration stories of then and now.
SCHOON DONKER
Director: Katrien Feyaerts
Feature Documentary
Status: Premiered at États généraux du film documentaire
Somewhere in Belgium, on the Flat Fields of Flanders, there where the horizon forms a thin but clear border between heaven and earth, Karel is taking care of his pigeons as if they were his own children. He, himself, always stays there, but he trains them to travel far and fast, under the one and only condition that they're always coming back. The daily rhythm and its eternal repetition offers as well to him as to his pigeons a highly secure base. Me too, I've been born and raised there. Despite all my beautiful memories and despite the fact that you're not supposed to, one day I decided to leave. Unlike most of Karel's pigeons, I never came back to live there. Now, while the pigeons are coming and going, I'm coming back to film Karel and to speak with my father. But when the pigeons are going for the furthest travel to Marseille, I'm preparing myself to leave with them. Karel, my father, the village remain there, waiting for our possible, but not certain, return.
More info: SCHOON DONKER
Director: Katrien Feyaerts
Feature Documentary
Status: Premiered at États généraux du film documentaire
Somewhere in Belgium, on the Flat Fields of Flanders, there where the horizon forms a thin but clear border between heaven and earth, Karel is taking care of his pigeons as if they were his own children. He, himself, always stays there, but he trains them to travel far and fast, under the one and only condition that they're always coming back. The daily rhythm and its eternal repetition offers as well to him as to his pigeons a highly secure base. Me too, I've been born and raised there. Despite all my beautiful memories and despite the fact that you're not supposed to, one day I decided to leave. Unlike most of Karel's pigeons, I never came back to live there. Now, while the pigeons are coming and going, I'm coming back to film Karel and to speak with my father. But when the pigeons are going for the furthest travel to Marseille, I'm preparing myself to leave with them. Karel, my father, the village remain there, waiting for our possible, but not certain, return.
More info: SCHOON DONKER
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Director: Juliette Joffé
Short film, french
Status: Premiered on FID Marseille
Anxious of not currently acting, an aging actor embarks on a seemingly aimless road trip. He confides in a young British hitchhiker who understands almost nothing of his French. Mixing documentary scenes, impressionistic monologues and absurdist dialogues the film focuses on a protagonist who only feels comfortable in fictional roles, struggling to live with himself and his past. Narrated with fleeting associations, the film takes us on an inner journey in which thought becomes landscape. The actor’s struggle reflects universal themes of striving to accept one’s history and longing to escape into endless journey to become someone else.
The hero with a thousand faces: https://vimeo.com/180514749
Peut-être le noir: https://vimeo.com/75298079
Director: Juliette Joffé
Short film, french
Status: Premiered on FID Marseille
Anxious of not currently acting, an aging actor embarks on a seemingly aimless road trip. He confides in a young British hitchhiker who understands almost nothing of his French. Mixing documentary scenes, impressionistic monologues and absurdist dialogues the film focuses on a protagonist who only feels comfortable in fictional roles, struggling to live with himself and his past. Narrated with fleeting associations, the film takes us on an inner journey in which thought becomes landscape. The actor’s struggle reflects universal themes of striving to accept one’s history and longing to escape into endless journey to become someone else.
The hero with a thousand faces: https://vimeo.com/180514749
Peut-être le noir: https://vimeo.com/75298079
MARS
Director: Leni Huyghe
Feature experimental documentary
Status: Development funding (VAF)
Chris has a personal history of social neglect. In her imagination she portrays herself as a great adventurer. The director, who was raised by Chris, wants to build on this imagination and portrays her as the first inhabitant of Mars. The current home of Chris, the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, will serve as the desolate planet. The bare snowy landscapes will form the visual background. Through her computer screen Chris looks back at earth, the planet and society she has left behind.
Director: Leni Huyghe
Feature experimental documentary
Status: Development funding (VAF)
Chris has a personal history of social neglect. In her imagination she portrays herself as a great adventurer. The director, who was raised by Chris, wants to build on this imagination and portrays her as the first inhabitant of Mars. The current home of Chris, the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, will serve as the desolate planet. The bare snowy landscapes will form the visual background. Through her computer screen Chris looks back at earth, the planet and society she has left behind.
L’ANNÉE PROCHAINE ON PARTIRA
Director: Juliette Joffé
Feature Documentary
Status: Post-Production
Guided by a sentence from my chlidhood I encounter three people in Paris : A collector of lost objects, a princess in Disneyland and a coffee seller. A reconciliation with my hometown through a dialogue with strangers, and three letters sent to those who became friends.
Director: Juliette Joffé
Feature Documentary
Status: Post-Production
Guided by a sentence from my chlidhood I encounter three people in Paris : A collector of lost objects, a princess in Disneyland and a coffee seller. A reconciliation with my hometown through a dialogue with strangers, and three letters sent to those who became friends.