Type: Film
Category: Fiction
Production share: Majority Flemish Production
Genre: Tragi-comedy
Year of production: 2023
Production status: Completed
Original title: J’aime la vie
Original language: Dutch, French
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Running time: 85′
Available in: 2D
Sound format: 5.1 (+sub)
Available formats: DCP
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Concept: Anton Setola
Producer: Lunanime
Synopsis
In a very busy city, there is a peaceful place. lt’s a little park, closed in and forgotten, in the middle of the city.
lt is where you can find Ollie and his friends.
A little owl, a small stork, a young frog and five little birds live there, and have many adventures together. lf you want to meet them, you best come at nightfall.
That’s when the city turns quiet and everybody goes to sleep. Except for Ollie and his friends who are still awake, just long enough for a little adventure.
You are very welcome there …
.. if you can find it.
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animated preschool series
52×4′
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), KETNET & The MEDIA programme of the European Union
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Director: Peter Monsaert
Writer: Peter Monsaert
Cast: Wim Willaert, Sara Vertongen, Esra Vandenbussche, Ingrid De Vos, Isabelle Van Hecke, Tom Ternest, Naima Rodric, Mathias Sercu, Serge Larivière
Producer: Lunanime
DOP: David Williamson
Editor: Alain Dessauvage
Soundtrack: Frederik Van de Moortel (based on recordings by Bert Dockx)
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Le Ciel Flamand zooms in on the lives of three generations of women. Monique and her daughter Sylvie run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. Eline, Sylvie’s six-year-old daughter, is fascinated by the mysterious workplace of her mother and grandmother, but she is never allowed inside.
A dramatic event turns their lives upside down and the family ties are put under pressure.
Le Ciel Flamand is the second feature by Peter Monsaert, director of the internationally acclaimed Offline.
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112′
Dutch/French
yes
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Screen Flanders, Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA (European Union), Telenet STAP, Province East-Flanders, Belgian Tax Shelter
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Director: Peter Monsaert
Screenplay: Peter Monsaert, Dominique Willaert, Tom Dupont
Cast: Anemone Valcke, Wim Willaert, Mourade Zeguendi, Patricia Goemaere, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Margriet Bruggeman
Production company: Lunanime in coproduction with Victoria Deluxe and VRT
Producers: Annemie Degryse, Jan De Clercq, Alexander Vandeputte
Co-producer: Dominique Willaert
Soundtrack: Triggerfinger
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After seven years in prison, Rudy Vandekerckhove has set himself two clear objectives: get back to work as a washing machine repairman, and – more importantly – become reconciled with the family he had left behind. But despite the help and support of Denise, a retired hairdresser, and his friend Rachid, his plans fail.
Just when a reunion eventually comes within sight, the past gets the upper hand again, and Rudy has to take the toughest decision of his life.
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106′
Dutch and French
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), City of Ghent, Sabam, Lumière, Belgian Tax Shelter
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Festival selections for OFFLINE:
Ghent International Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival 2012, Festival International du Film d’Amiens 2012, Festival International du Film d’Aubagne 2013, Cinequest Film Festival Californië 2013, Emden International Film Festival 2013, Festroia International Film Festival Setúbal 2013, Saint Petersburg International Film Festival 2013, Festival de Cine Internacional de Ourense 2013, …
Awards for OFFLINE:
Best Actress (Anemone Valcke) & Best Actor (Wim Willaert) & Best Feature Film & Best Film (Amiens), Scénario (Peter Monsaert, Dominique Willaert, Tom Dupont) (Aubagne), Best Director (Peter Monsaert) (Sint-Petersburg), Best Director (Peter Monsaert) (Ourense), Jury Special Prize – First Works Section Best Feature Film (Festróia), …
English title: From the Land of the Moon
Director: Nicole Garcia
Writer: Jacques Fieschi (based on the novel by Milena Agus)
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Gwendoline Fiquet
Producer: Les Production du Trésor, Lunanime
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An adaptation of Milena Agus’ eponymous novel set after WWII, “Mal de Pierres” (“Mal di Pietre”) spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.
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120 min
2.35
French, Spanish
Belgian Tax Shelter
StudioCanal
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Cast: François Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, John C. Reilly, Agathe Dronne
Director: Thomas Bidegain
Writers: Noé Debre, Thomas Bidegain
Producer: Les Productions du Trésor
Co-producer: Lunanime, Pathé, France 2 cinéma, Les Films du Fleuve
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A vast prairie, a country & western gathering somewhere in the east of France. Alain is a central figure in this community. He’s dancing with his daughter Kelly, 16, as his wife and their young son, Kid, watch from the sidelines. But on this day, Kelly disappears, and the family falls apart. Alain embarks on a relentless search for his daughter, even though it costs him everything and takes him to some far-off places. Dark, unsettling places, where his sole support is Kid, who sacrifices his youth to accompany his father on this seemingly endless quest.
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104′
16:9
English, French
CNC, Centre du Cinéma et de L’audiovisuel de la Fédération, Wallonie Bruxelles, La Procirep, Belgian Tax Shelter
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Director: Klaartje Schrijvers
Producer: Lunanime – Annemie Degryse
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The Education is a short animated film about a teenage girl living through the existential crisis of her family and the destructive psychological and physical conflicts that come with it. The story is told, partially by the girl as an adolescent, partially by the girl as a grown-up. Past and present alternate as do causes and effects.
Nobody escapes the spiral of destruction in this crisis, yet everybody responds differently to it. The teenage girl, the main character of the film, is both perpetrator and victim of several conflicts. She is a series of personae, just like her father, with whom she has most but not all conflicts. The mother and the sister also have their particular ways of inflicting damage and treating received blows.
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Animated short
14’56”
16:9
5.1
English (voice-over)
black and white
2D computer animation
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Belgian Tax Shelter
Lumière
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Director: Paul Jadoul
Voice actor: Eric Godon
Music: Paul Jadoul
Producers: Arnaud Demuynck, Annemie Degryse
Production companies: La Boîte,… Productions, Digit Anima, Lunanime, Les Films Du Nord, Pictanovo Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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A lumberjack is working in a forest when suddenly a tree falls down and his leg gets stuck. He is trapped in a beautiful but cruel environment and the despair awakens his primal instincts
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09’11”
16:9
no dialogue
yes
2D computer animation
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), CNC, FWB, Belgian Tax Shelter
Lumière
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Original title: Un Plan d’Enfer
Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol
Music: Serge Besset
Production companies: Folimage, Lunanime
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Mo and Carl, two burglars, release dozens of cats into the streets of a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag full of loot hidden in an old lady’s house. Unfortunately for Mo and Carl, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night they ever spent.
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Animated short
05’51”
16:9
French
yes
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Belgian Tax Shelter
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Director: Isabel Bouttens
Music: Annelies Van Parys
Producer: Lunanime – Annemie Degryse
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Somewhere in an autumn park, a boy throws a paper plane up into the air. The wind swiftly carries it along. Meanwhile the boy counts how long it can stay up in the air. But the wind drops and the plane lands in the hair of a knitting old lady. The boy takes his plane back on the sly, but the old lady is keeping an eye on him.
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animated short
07’01”
1.85
no dialogue
yes
2D computer animation
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