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State Of Happiness

Cast: Bart Edwards, Anne Regine Ellingsæter, Amund Harboe, Malene Wadel

Synopsis
STATE OF HAPPINESS is a TV drama series that tells the story of Western prosperity, a changing nation, a Klondike town, and four young people who are thrown into a whirlwind of opportunities. Everything is moving, everything is new, it´s a great, at times scary and threatening, unknown. How are they all going to deal with it?

Director: Petter Næss

Producer: Synnøve Hørsdal & Ales Ree (Maipo Film, Norway); Jan De Clercq & Annemie Degryse (Lunanime, Belgium)

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Original title: Lykkeland – based on a concept of Siv Rajendram Ellassen and an idea of Synnøve Hørsdal
Genre: tv-series, drama
Running time: 8 x 45′

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Petter Næss | State Of Happiness

The Team 2

Belgian cast: Lynn Van Royen, Soufiane Chilah, Tom Vermeir, Dahlia Pessemiers, Joren Seldeslachts, Dikra El Bacha, Abdel Malik Farhouni, Lucas Van den Eynde, Steve Geerts
International cast: Jürgen Vogel, Marie Bach Hansen, Sarah Perles

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The murder of seven seemingly unconnected European civilians in a pension in the Danish marshlands brings together a team of investigators from Denmark, Germany and Belgium. What seems to be an act of terror soon leads the detectives into a case of international art dealing that involves players from the Middle East throughout Europe – from the very bottom to the very top of society.

Director: Kasper Gaardsøe

Producers: Network Movie (D), Lunanime (B), Nordisk Film (DK) en Superfilm (A)

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Genre: fiction series
Duur: 8 x 58′

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Kasper Gaardsoe | The Team 2

Occupied II

Cast: Eldar Skar, Janne Heltberg, Ane Dahl Torp

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If you had to choose between safety and freedom, what would you choose? The season starts with an armed conflict between the Norwegian Coast Guard and a Russian Security Company guarding the oil installation at Melkøya in Northern Norway. Weapons are pointed at one another. No one wants to back down. This highly tense crisis situation creates a chain of conflicts that has severe consequences – politically and personally. The question that everybody has to ask themselves constantly is: Who can you trust?

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg

Producer: Yellow Bird Norge, Lunanime

Writer: Jo Nesbø, Karianne Lund (script supervisor)

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Genre: Fiction series
Running time: 8 x 45′

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Erik Skjoldbjærg | Occupied

Hassel

Cast: Ola Rapace (Skyfall, Wallander), Tomas Laustiola (Den Fördömde), Aliette Opheim (Johan Falk, Thicker Than Water)

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The series opens with the brutal murder of Yngve Ruda, Head of the Triton police unit and Hassel’s father figure. Hassel is struck with grief and anger, and lets his emotions govern his chase for the killer. He is not afraid to go outside the law in order to find the murderer. Because of his legal violations he makes himself another enemy – the head of internal affairs, Fatima Nidal. The more Hassel investigates Rudas’ past, the more secrets surface about the man he thought he knew. Clues lead both to Hassel’s own colleagues and to high-ranking politicians. It is increasingly difficult to know whom he can trust…

Director: Eshref Reybrouck, Amir Chamdin

Producer: Lunanime, NiceDrama, ViaSat/Viaplay

Writer: Olov Svedelid

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Genre: crime series
Running time: 10 x 45′

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Amir Chamdin | Eshref Reybrouck | Hassel | Olov Svedelid

Gangsterdam

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

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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

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

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

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

Granitsa

Director: Vanja d’Alcantara
Cast: Natali Broods, Konstantin Demidov
Produced by: Need Productions, Lunanime

Synopsis

A foreign woman travels by train through Russia. She watches the landscape passing by, and observes the people on the platform. A young man steps on the train. They try to start a conversation but do not understand each other.