The Film Selection Committee is backing 56 new projects and supporting talents hailing from domains such as music (Baloji) and literature (Thomas Gunzing and Adeline Dieudonné). The Belgian Minister of Culture has just announced the results of the first 2020 session of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre’s Film Selection Committee. Exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures, and so the hearings for this first session of the year were held remotely, while it was also possible to send submissions for the second committee 100% online. Among the 56 projects receiving backing are feature films by multidisciplinary talents such as musician Baloji, who has already helmed several short films, and whose feature debut, Augure, produced by Eve Commenge for Anonymes Films, is receiving production support. Meanwhile, Thomas Gunzig and Adeline Dieudonné, two key figures in the Belgian French-language literature scene, have been granted writing support for their joint project Le...
The Brand New Testament Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Jaco Van Dormael Written by: Jaco Van Dormael, Thomas Gunzig Cast: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Catherine Deneuve Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 11/21/16 Opens: December 9, 2016 Donald Trump called Brussels “a hell-hole,” so how could God possibly reside there? Easy. In the creative minds of director and co-writer Jaco Van Dormael and of co-scripter Thomas Gunzig, God may well reside in such a place as he is not a nice fella, but a jerk. He is so bored (can’t blame him after having lived longer than today’s Okinawans) he dreams up ways [ Read More ]
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- 11/30/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Hilarious satire about rebooting religion with a goddess in charge this time. A little bit Douglas Adams, a little bit Terry Gilliam, a whole lot irreverent. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
God is real. He lives in Brussels. Also, he is a real jerk: cruel, mean-spirited, and capricious, deploying his most ultimate of power to spread fear and hatred, and to make sure that your toast always lands butter side down. None of this should come as any surprise. But you probably weren’t aware that God (Benoît Poelvoorde: Coco Before Chanel) has a wife (Yolande Moreau: Amelie) and a 10-year-old daughter, Ea (Pili Groyne: Two Days, One Night), whom he keeps crushed under his abusive thumb. Ea, though, has had enough, and in the way of many a fed-up tween, she rebels,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
God is real. He lives in Brussels. Also, he is a real jerk: cruel, mean-spirited, and capricious, deploying his most ultimate of power to spread fear and hatred, and to make sure that your toast always lands butter side down. None of this should come as any surprise. But you probably weren’t aware that God (Benoît Poelvoorde: Coco Before Chanel) has a wife (Yolande Moreau: Amelie) and a 10-year-old daughter, Ea (Pili Groyne: Two Days, One Night), whom he keeps crushed under his abusive thumb. Ea, though, has had enough, and in the way of many a fed-up tween, she rebels,...
- 4/18/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
In this unruly Belgian satire, God is a sadistic, filing-fixated resident of Brussels
In Jaco Van Dormael’s playfully blasphemous Belgian fantasy, God exists, lives in Brussels, and is a total bastard to his wife and daughter. Locked in a Gilliam-esque room of filing cabinets, his unholiness (played by Benoît Poelvoorde, who once turned heads and stomachs in Man Bites Dog) spends his days sadistically abusing the world’s population. Then, resourceful, resentful daughter Ea (Pili Groyne) commandeers his computer, texts the time and date of their deaths to every living soul, and escapes through a washing machine into the wonderland of the world. Here, she must assemble six random apostles while steering clear of her wrathful dad, who is getting a taste of his own earthly medicine. It’s divertingly unruly stuff, which comes on like a cross between Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death...
In Jaco Van Dormael’s playfully blasphemous Belgian fantasy, God exists, lives in Brussels, and is a total bastard to his wife and daughter. Locked in a Gilliam-esque room of filing cabinets, his unholiness (played by Benoît Poelvoorde, who once turned heads and stomachs in Man Bites Dog) spends his days sadistically abusing the world’s population. Then, resourceful, resentful daughter Ea (Pili Groyne) commandeers his computer, texts the time and date of their deaths to every living soul, and escapes through a washing machine into the wonderland of the world. Here, she must assemble six random apostles while steering clear of her wrathful dad, who is getting a taste of his own earthly medicine. It’s divertingly unruly stuff, which comes on like a cross between Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death...
- 4/17/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Berlin competition entry Being 17 among six titles acquired by Metrodome at Efm.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised six deals from the Efm in Berlin including André Téchiné- Celine Sciamma drama Being 17 and fantasy-romance Angel, both from Elle Driver for all UK and Irish distribution rights.
Téchiné directs the Berlin competition title Being 17, a project he co-wrote with Girlhood director Sciamma.
The French-language film follows the tense relationship between two boys whose lives intertwine until they unexpectedly find themselves living under the same roof.
Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila star. Producers are Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc of Fidélité Films, co-producers are Wild Bunch and France 2 Cinema.
Fantasy romance Angel is directed by actor-director Harry Cleven and stars Elina Lowensohn, Fleur Geffrier, Hannah Boudru and Maya Dory.
The screenplay is written by Thomas Gunzig (The Brand New Testament) and the film is produced by Jaco Van Dormael and Terra Incognita Films’ Olivier Rausin and Daniel Marquet...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised six deals from the Efm in Berlin including André Téchiné- Celine Sciamma drama Being 17 and fantasy-romance Angel, both from Elle Driver for all UK and Irish distribution rights.
Téchiné directs the Berlin competition title Being 17, a project he co-wrote with Girlhood director Sciamma.
The French-language film follows the tense relationship between two boys whose lives intertwine until they unexpectedly find themselves living under the same roof.
Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila star. Producers are Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc of Fidélité Films, co-producers are Wild Bunch and France 2 Cinema.
Fantasy romance Angel is directed by actor-director Harry Cleven and stars Elina Lowensohn, Fleur Geffrier, Hannah Boudru and Maya Dory.
The screenplay is written by Thomas Gunzig (The Brand New Testament) and the film is produced by Jaco Van Dormael and Terra Incognita Films’ Olivier Rausin and Daniel Marquet...
- 3/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The entire Academy Awards endeavour seems to expand every year, as more and more often, shortlists are announced during the behind-the-scenes nominations process, ahead of the final nominations announcement. While that tends to make the awards season feel even longer, it does much to raise the profile of films that might otherwise be little noticed by general audiences – including those submitted to the Academy for consideration as Best Foreign Film.
The Academy accepts one submission from each country, and the deadline for those submissions was October 1st this year. The selection process then has two phases. In the first phase, the Foreign Language Film Award Committee screens each submission, and selects six for shortlisting, with an additional three selected by the Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee. This set of nine films is then announced as the shortlist, and this is the announcement we have seen today.
The shortlisted films...
The Academy accepts one submission from each country, and the deadline for those submissions was October 1st this year. The selection process then has two phases. In the first phase, the Foreign Language Film Award Committee screens each submission, and selects six for shortlisting, with an additional three selected by the Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee. This set of nine films is then announced as the shortlist, and this is the announcement we have seen today.
The shortlisted films...
- 12/22/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
2015 European Film Awards winners and nominations Best European Film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. En Duva Satt På En Gren Och Funderade På Tillvaron. Sweden, France, Germany, Norway, 96 min. Written and directed by: Roy Andersson. Produced by: Pernilla Sandström. Mustang. France, Germany, Turkey, 100 min. Directed by: Deniz Gamze Ergüven. Written by: Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour. Produced by: Charles Gillibert. Rams. Hrútar. Iceland, Denmark, 93 min. Written and directed by: Grímur Hákonarson. Produced by: Grímar Jónsson. The Lobster. U.K., Ireland, Greece, France, Netherlands, 118 min. Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos. Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. Produced by: Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey and Yorgos Lanthimos. Victoria. Germany, 138 min. Written and directed by: Sebastian Schipper. Produced by: Jan Dressler. * Youth. Youth – La Giovinezza. Italy, France, U.K., Switzerland, 118 min. Written and directed by: Paolo Sorrentino. Produced by: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori. Best...
- 12/13/2015
- by Mont. Steve
- Alt Film Guide
Youth leads with five nominations; A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence and The Lobster each have four.
Paulo Sorrentino’s Youth leads the nominees for the 28th European Film Awards (EFAs), which will be presented on December 12 in Berlin.
Youth has five nominations including film, directing and screenplay, as well as acting nominations for Rachel Weisz and Michael Caine.
Closely on its heels with four nominations each are Roy Andersson’s surreal comedy A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster.
Following with three nominations each are Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria and Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.
The noms for the European Film of the Year are Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang (France/Turkey) and popular Icelandic drama Rams directed by Grimur Hakonarson.
Documentary nominees are A Syrian Love Story by Sean McAllister; Amy by Asif Kapadia; Dancing With Maria by Ivan Gergolet; The Look of Silence by [link...
Paulo Sorrentino’s Youth leads the nominees for the 28th European Film Awards (EFAs), which will be presented on December 12 in Berlin.
Youth has five nominations including film, directing and screenplay, as well as acting nominations for Rachel Weisz and Michael Caine.
Closely on its heels with four nominations each are Roy Andersson’s surreal comedy A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster.
Following with three nominations each are Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria and Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.
The noms for the European Film of the Year are Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang (France/Turkey) and popular Icelandic drama Rams directed by Grimur Hakonarson.
Documentary nominees are A Syrian Love Story by Sean McAllister; Amy by Asif Kapadia; Dancing With Maria by Ivan Gergolet; The Look of Silence by [link...
- 11/7/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Oscar-nominated Bouchareb explores plight of parents who lose children to Isis.Elle Driver has boarded Jorge Michael Grau’s earthquake drama 7.19 am and Rachid Bouchareb’s Road to Istanbul [pictured], about a mother who goes in pursuit of her Isis recruit daughter, ahead of the American Film Market (Afm). The company also start pre-sales on Audrey Dana’s comedy If I Were a Boy, in which she stars as a woman who wakes up with a penis, and Harry Cleven’s fantasy romance Angel. Franco-Algerian Bouchareb’s Road to Istanbul stars Belgian actress Astrid Whettnall as a single mother on a quest to find her 18-year-old daughter after she leaves Belgium to join the Islamic State with a Jihadist boyfriend. “My goal is to film the incomprehension of a mother totally caught off guard by the changes in her daughter on reaching legal age… Alone, divorced and abandoned by the authorities, she must try...
- 11/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Le tout Nouveau Testament
Director: Jaco Van Dormael // Writers: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael
Get ready for some inventive strangeness from Belgian auteur Jaco Van Dormael, who won the Camera d’Or back in 1991 for his inspired debut, Toto, the Hero. But he’s most famous for his lavish 2009 English language production, Mr. Nobody, a sort of philosophical sci-fi extravaganza that starred Jared Leto. The film cost upwards of 33 million euros and was greeted with an incredibly cool reception, not even available for Us audiences until 2013 when Leto’s Oscar campaign for The Dallas Buyers Club was in full force. Now, Van Dormael has scaled it back a bit (he did have a demure 2011 title, Kiss & Cry, which has yet to see any kind of release here) with his latest, Le tout Nouveau Testament (The Brand New Testament), which professes to tell the story of God and his exacerbated relationship...
Director: Jaco Van Dormael // Writers: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael
Get ready for some inventive strangeness from Belgian auteur Jaco Van Dormael, who won the Camera d’Or back in 1991 for his inspired debut, Toto, the Hero. But he’s most famous for his lavish 2009 English language production, Mr. Nobody, a sort of philosophical sci-fi extravaganza that starred Jared Leto. The film cost upwards of 33 million euros and was greeted with an incredibly cool reception, not even available for Us audiences until 2013 when Leto’s Oscar campaign for The Dallas Buyers Club was in full force. Now, Van Dormael has scaled it back a bit (he did have a demure 2011 title, Kiss & Cry, which has yet to see any kind of release here) with his latest, Le tout Nouveau Testament (The Brand New Testament), which professes to tell the story of God and his exacerbated relationship...
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Total 47 film projects selected for Federation Wallonia-Brussels support.
The film selection committee of the Federation Wallonia Brussels hasselected 19 features, 10 shorts, 14 documentaries and four TV films for script, development or production support for a total amount of €3,267,000 ($4.2m).
Among the selected projects are new projects by Jaco Van Dormael, Thierry Michel, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Pauline Etienne.
Among the features selected for support are surrealist comedy Le Tout Nouveau Testament by Jaco Van Dormael, which he co-scripted with Thomas Gunzig and for which shooting in Belgium with Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau has already started.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose Amer and L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps won festival prizes, will make a film noir with the adaptation of a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez bronzer les cadavres.
Production support will also go to Animal, Frédéric Dumont’s second feature effort following Un ange à la mer, as well as...
The film selection committee of the Federation Wallonia Brussels hasselected 19 features, 10 shorts, 14 documentaries and four TV films for script, development or production support for a total amount of €3,267,000 ($4.2m).
Among the selected projects are new projects by Jaco Van Dormael, Thierry Michel, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Pauline Etienne.
Among the features selected for support are surrealist comedy Le Tout Nouveau Testament by Jaco Van Dormael, which he co-scripted with Thomas Gunzig and for which shooting in Belgium with Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau has already started.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose Amer and L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps won festival prizes, will make a film noir with the adaptation of a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Laissez bronzer les cadavres.
Production support will also go to Animal, Frédéric Dumont’s second feature effort following Un ange à la mer, as well as...
- 9/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Catherine Deneuve has joined the cast of Cannes award-winning director Jaco Van Dormael’s surreal comedy in which God lives in Brussels.
The Brand New Testament will star comedian Benoit Poelvoorde as God and Yolande Moreau as God’s wife. Deneuve, the Belle du Jour star who more recently starred in Potiche, also features.
The original story, co-written by Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig, portrays God as an odious character who is disliked by his family.
His daughter, Ea, decides to run away from home but first hacks her father’s computer and lets everyone in the world know the date when they are going to die. God takes to the streets to find Ea and discovers the horrors of a world he created himself.
Produced by Van Dormael, Olivier Rausin, Daniel Marquet, David Grumbach, and Frank Van Passel, the film is set up as a Belgium, French and Luxembourg coproduction with an $11.4m (€8.3m) budget...
The Brand New Testament will star comedian Benoit Poelvoorde as God and Yolande Moreau as God’s wife. Deneuve, the Belle du Jour star who more recently starred in Potiche, also features.
The original story, co-written by Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig, portrays God as an odious character who is disliked by his family.
His daughter, Ea, decides to run away from home but first hacks her father’s computer and lets everyone in the world know the date when they are going to die. God takes to the streets to find Ea and discovers the horrors of a world he created himself.
Produced by Van Dormael, Olivier Rausin, Daniel Marquet, David Grumbach, and Frank Van Passel, the film is set up as a Belgium, French and Luxembourg coproduction with an $11.4m (€8.3m) budget...
- 5/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Belgian director is currently in Paris with critically acclaimed, mixed media stage show Kiss and Cry, which he also hopes to adapt for the big screen.
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
- 7/5/2013
- ScreenDaily
Belgian director is currently in Paris with critically acclaimed, mixed media stage show Kiss and Cry, which he also hopes to adapt for the big screen.
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
- 7/5/2013
- ScreenDaily
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