Jeroen Derycke | lunanime

La Sirène

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1980, Abadan. The oil capital of Iran lies under siege by Iraqi forces. Despite the war, Omid, a 14 year old boy, is determined to stay in the city with his grandfather and await the return of his brother who is fighting at the front. Those remaining try to go about their lives and resist in their own way. But the noose is tightening. Omid wants to save his loved ones. He discovers an abandoned boat called ‘The Siren’, could this be the solution he was looking for?

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animated feature
90′
16:9
French
yes
2D computer animation

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Director: Sepideh Farsi
Scenario: Djavad Djavahery
Producer: Lunanime & Les Films d’Ici

Co-producers : Special Touch(FR), Reves d’Eau(FR), Katuh Studio(DE), BAC CINEMA(LUX) & Lunanime(BEL)

Partners : TV5 Monde, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Occitanie, PACA, Eurimage, Ciclic & Grand Est

Bloeistraat 11

Director-writer: Nienke Deutz
Producer: Lunanime, Windmill Film, Need Productions & Beast Animation

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Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

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Bloeistraat 11 awards:

-Internationaal Animatie Filmfestival van Annecy (FR): de Cristal du Court Métrage
-Croq’Anime – PIAFF / Festival International du Film d’Animation de Paris (FR): Grand Prix
-Chicago International Film Festival (USA): Silver Hugo – Animated short film
-ReAnima – International Animated Film Festival (NO): Special mention
-Imaginaria – International Animation Film Festival (IT): Special mention for an animated short film
& Festivals connexion award – Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
-New Chitose Airport International Animation Film Festival, Japan – New Talent Award
-Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switserland – New Talent Award
-XXI International Animation Films Festival “Animaevka – 2018” (Mogilev, Belarus) – Crystal Pencil
-Denver Film Festival – Jury Award for Best Animated Short Film

International distribution: Miyu Distribution – festival@miyu.fr

Status: completed
Genre: coming of age, drama, animation
Running time: 9′

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Nienke Deutz

Gangsterdam

Director: Romain Lévy
Cast: Kev Adams, Manon Azem, Rutger Hauer, Côme Levin, Manu Payet, Patrick Timsit
Producers: Les Productions du Trésor, Lunanime

Synopsis

Ruben, Durex and Nora are all students in their final year of uni.

Suffering from a lack of self-confidence, Ruben has already failed his exams once and is too shy to admit he has feelings for Nora. His childhood friend Durex, who is possibly the most annoying guy in the world, isn’t much help on either front. When Ruben finds out that Nora has a side job as a drug dealer, and is about to leave for Amsterdam to bring back a new type of drug, Ruben plucks up the courage to go with her. The trip to Amsterdam is the perfect chance for Ruben to finally seduce Nora, but unfortunately for him, Durex decides to tag along for the ride.

As the trio explore Europe’s craziest capital, their lives become a lot more complicated when they find out that the drug they’ve come to collect belongs to Amsterdam’s most notorious criminals. Ruben, Durex and Nora quickly realise that if they want to get their old lives back they’ll have to stop acting like losers and become real heroes.

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Comedy
Netherlands Film Fund
Studio Canal

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Kev Adams | Romain Lévy

Gloria

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After a tragic car accident in which a woman loses her husband and her unborn child, the woman tries to leave the past behind and move forward with her life.

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Director: Iza Cracco
Duration : 10 min
Language: no-dialogue
Production year: 2021
Production company: Lunanime
Animation Studio: Lumière Studio
Producer: Annemie Degryse
With the support of: Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds – VAF, Lum.Invest, Belgische Taxshelter, Stad Gent, Cultuur Gent

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Gloria | Isabelle Cracco

La Rançon de la Gloire

Original title: The Price of Fame
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zeù, Séli Gmach, Chiara Mastroianni
Producers: Wy Not Productions, Les Films Du Fleuve, Lunanime, Rita Productions, Arches Films, France 3 Cinéma

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On the shores of Lake Geneva lies the small Swi ss town of Vevey. It’s the end of the 70s. On his release from prison, Eddy – a hard-drinking, 40-year-old Belgian – is met by his friend Osman. They’ve made a deal: Osman will let Eddy stay in his shed, and in exchange, Eddy will take care of his 7-year-old daughter Samira while her mother is in the hospital. It’s the Christmas season, but their shared, grinding poverty has made Eddy quite bitter. Then Charlie Chaplin’s death is announced, as well as the true extent of his fabulous wealth. Eddy starts daydreaming… and comes up with a crazy idea: what if he stole the actor’ s corpse and demanded a ransom from the family? Loosely based on real events, THE PRICE OF FAME spins a web around the audacious concept of a resuscitated Chaplin, a Chaplin whose soul gradually possesses the minds of these two misfits, until their journey becomes a tale worthy of the Little Tramp himself!

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Comedy, drama
150′
French
Belgian Tax Shelter
Wild Bunch

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Benoît Poelvoorde | La Rançon de la Gloire | Xavier Beauvois

Peace

Director: Roman Klochkov
Writer: Roman Klochkov
Produced by: Lunanime

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War seems inevitable as rival factions bear down on each other, armed to the teeth and unwilling to negotiate. Then a single shot precipitates peace.

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Animated short
1’10”
16:9
no dialogue
2D computer animation
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
Lumière

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Festival selections:

Festival du Film Merveilleux et Imaginaire – France (2014)
Montreal World Film Festival – Canada (2014)
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival – Switzerland (2014)
Museum of Modern Art New York (The Great War Programme) – USA (2014)
Netherlands Film Festival (2014)
Animated Film Festival Animatou – Switzerland (2014)
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur – Belgium (2014)
Naqsh Short Film Festival – Bahrein (2014)
Valladolid International Film Festival – Spain (2014)
Arras Film Festival – France (2014)
Monstra – Lisbon (2015)
Tehran International Animation Festival – Iran (2015)
Ciné Privé – Ghent, Belgium (2015)
ANIMA MUNDI – Brazil (2015)

Peace | Roman Klochkov

The Mole Whisperer

Directors: Stanley Duchateau and Olivier Schrauwen
Writers: Stanley Duchateau and Olivier Schrauwen
Produced by: Lunanime

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All Pé Pé le Pi wants is to be left alone. One day, he encounters a woman and her loud children. The see him as a perfect family father. He tries to get rid of them but his efforts continuously fail and they take him to the deepest caves of hell. Finally, he has no choice but to give in to the oppressing grip of family life and he actually starts to enjoy it.

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Animated short
11’11”
no dialogue
2D computer animation
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
Lumière

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Olivier Schrauwen | Stanley Duchateau | The mole whisperer

Peace on Earth

Director: Christophe Gérard
Writers: Christophe Gérard & Jérôme Berteloot
Producers: Les Films du Nord, La Boîte Productions, Lunanime

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Night is falling somewhere on Earth. Here and there ovoids cross the sky and fall into the ground. A little later we come across empty benches and fishing rods lying on the grass… Everything becomes strangely calm.

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Animated short
14′
1:1.85
no dialogue
traditional animation and 2D computer
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française, France 2, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, CNC, Procirep/Angoa

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Festival selections:

Cinématou (Genève, Switzerland) – 2009
Animanima (Serbia) 2009
Animadrid (Madrid, Spain) – 2009
Anim’est International Animation film festival (Romania) – 2009
International animation film festival Tindirindis (Lithuania) – 2009
L’Alternativa (Barcelona, Spain) – 2009
San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film (Spain) – 2009
“Les Nuits Magiques” (France) – 2009
Short Film Festival Villeurbanne (France) – 2009
Anima (Brussels, Belgium) – 2010

Christophe Gérard | Peace on Earth

Meisje

Director: Dorothée Van Den Berghe
Cast: Charlotte Vanden Eynde, Els Dottermans, Frieda Pittoors, Matthias Schoenaerts, Wim Opbrouck, Nico Sturm
Producer: Lunanime (Lumière), K-Line, K-Star, Motel Films

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MEISJE (Girl) tells the story of three women on a cross-road in their lives. Muriel is a young girl (20) in search for a direction. She breaks up with her parents, her boyfriend and the restrictive village life to start an independent life in Brussels. Muriel moves in with the unconstrained and vivid Laura (37), a woman with a chaotic love-life and a growing desire for a child. Martha (56), Muriel’s mother, watches this from a distance and sees her own enclosed life bursting open as she recognizes a forgotten girl’s dream. Their lives cross, influencing one another and resulting to an interesting and turbulent evening. MEISJE is a movie about the subtle and immense power that drives women.

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drama, romance
84′
1:1.85
Dutch
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Film Fund Netherlands
Lumière

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Selected for over 50 international film festivals, among others: Locarno, Montreal, Valladolid, Amiens, Rotterdam, Götenborg, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Taormina, Rabat, Karlovy Vary, Vancouver etc.

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Meisje was discovered by the Locarno Film Festival 2002 and received 2 awards in the Official Competition: “Le prix de la Jeunesse” and “Le prix du CICAE/ARTE”.
Amiens Film Festival Grand prix du Jury – Meilleure actrice féminin pour Charlotte van den Eynde as Muriel in Meisje.
National Film Awards PLATEAU voor Besst Actress and Best Original Score

Dorothée van den Berghe | Meisje

Matin Calme

Director: Annick Ghijzelings
Cast: Jan Decleir, Catherine Montondo
Produced by: Need Productions, Lunanime

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In an apartment, a man and a woman break up, but they don’t succeed in saying goodbye. They constantly provoke each other, attract and repel each other, and finale move out… About things that have been told, when there is nothing more to add…

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live action short
17′
Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Cinema and Audiovisual Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

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Festival selections:

57ème Festival International de Locarno
Festival International du Film francophone de Namur
Ghent Film Festival
Festival Media 10/10
Leuven Short Film Festival
Festival International de cine documental y cortometraje Bilbao / Zinebi
Festival du film d’amour de Mons
Faire court Spécial Belgique, Atelier 142 – Oise
27ème Festival du Film de Femmes de Créteil
Festival Panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou – FESPACO
Festival INCURT 2005 – Tarragona – Spain
Festival « Le court en dit long » – Paris
26ème Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne
Short Cuts Cologne

Award: Prix de la création at Festival en Plein Air de Grenoble

Matin Calme