Grond (Soil)

Grond

Synopsis

Anyone who, as a Muslim, kicks the bucket in Belgium, saddles their next of kin with a delicate dilemma: “Do we bury them here or in the country of origin?” The young Ishmael ‘Smile’ Boulasmoum, who together with his sister inherits his father’s repatriation business, finds a solution: what if we bring soil from Morocco to bury our dead in it? We’re starting a business in soil! Without realizing it, they open Pandora’s ‘coffin’.

Writers:  Zouzou Ben Chikha, Wannes Cappelle, Dries Heyneman
Directors: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Mathieu Mortelmans

Cast: Yassine Ouiach, Ward Kerremans, Ahlaam Teghadouini, Saïd Boumazoughe, Ben Hamidou, Charlotte De Bruyne, Barbara Sarafian, Reinhilde Decleir, Dries Heyneman, Emilie De Roo, Tom Vermeir, Mourade Zeguendi, Wannes Cappelle

Producer: Jan De Clercq (Lunanime)
Belgian broadcaster: VIER (SBS Belgium)

Genre: dramedy
Running time:
8 x 45′
Language: Dutch, French, Arabic

Kom hier dat ik u kus

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When Mona is nine, her mother dies in a car accident. Her father Vincent finds another lover called Marie, who is younger and very demanding as she claims all the attention as “new” mother. Mona needs to call her ‘mom’ and on top of that Marie gets pregnant soon after moving in with their family. Mona makes the best of it in her own way as she feels responsible for the success of this new family, even though it is at the expensive of her own feelings. We follow her throughout her childhood, twenties and thirties and see how she starts to realize she has to stop letting people walk all over her.

Based on the book “Kom hier dat ik u kus” by Griet Op de Beeck.

Directors & writers: Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden

Producers: Submarine (NL), Lunanime (BE)

Genre: drama, tragi-comedy
Running time: 100′
Language: Dutch

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Four chambers to the heart

Synopsis Palermo 1624. While in quarantine due to the plague, 94 year old master painter Sofonisba Anguissola, a worldwide renown artist at the time but later consigned to obscurity, writes her final letters to her pupil and Flemish master-in-the-making Anton Van Dyck.

Writer/Director: Kostas Ioannidis and Johan Grimonprez

Producer: Lunanime

Genre: Animation shorts, surreal, drama
Running time: 8′

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Coppelia

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Coppelia combines enchanting animation and live action dance in a modern retelling of the love story between Swan and Franz, jeopardised by cosmetic surgeon Dr. Coppelius and his uncannily beautiful protégé Coppelia. Through Swan’s quest to uncover the truth about the charismatic doctor, the townspeople come to learn that in an increasingly image conscious culture – it’s never been more important to be yourself.

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Innovative family feature Coppelia combines enchanting animation and live action dance in a modern retelling of the love story between Swan and Franz, jeopardised by Dr. Coppelius and his uncannily beautiful protégé Coppelia. With a diverse and world-class cast including Michaela DePrince, Daniel Camargo, Vito Mazzeo and Dame Darcey Bussell, DBE, the unconventional adaptation sees Dr. Coppelius (Mazzeo) as a cosmetic surgeon, whose lure of superficial beauty poisons the town. Swan (DePrince) must uncover the truth about the popular newcomer who puts her community and the life of her beloved Franz (Daniel Camargo) in danger. Modern and fast paced, the dialogue-free film features a blend of musical influences from classical to electronic, bringing the story to life like never before. As the townspeople come to learn, in the age of social media and an increasingly image conscious
culture – it’s never been more important to be yourself.

Cast: Michaela dePrince, Erica Horwood, Daniel Camargo
Director: Jeff Tudor, Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur
Writers: Tamara Bos, Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur, Jeff Tudor
Choreographer: Ted Brandsen
Producers: Submarine (NL), Motion Works (D), Lunanime (BE)
Genre: feature cross media (animation & ballet) project
Running time: 80′

Coppelia is produced by award-winning creators Submarine (Undone, Amazon Prime), and 3 Minutes West in co-production with MotionWorks and Lunanime. The film is directed by Jeff Tudor, Steven de Beul and Ben Tesseur, choreographed by the Director of Dutch National Ballet Ted Brandsen with original music from Maurizio Malagnini (Call the Midwife, Peter and Wendy). Urban Distribution International handles sales for the project, which is launching at Berlin EFM.

La Costa Dorada

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In order to help her parents who are affected by the crisis in Spain, Erika leaves for a job on the Costa Dorada coast. There, she will sing for tourists while in Madrid one of the most important demonstrations of the ‘Indignados’ social movement is about to take place. Alone in an unknown city, she finds herself confronted even more brutally with the crisis.

Director and script: Noémie Gruner

 

Producers: Perspective Films, Need Productions, Lunanime

Genre : Animated short

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Camouflage

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Camouflage is a dystopian thriller in which we follow the story of office clerk Amouf. Amouf desperately tries to hold his life together while the world around him gets darker and darker, following the rise of De Jager. This flamboyant and highly intimidating creature is a hate-instigating vigilante, who has sworn to systematically prosecute certain groups and Amouf is not a brave character. Will he be strong enough to resist?

Director: Remco Polman

Producer: Mooves, Lunanime

Writers: Jantiene de Kroon & Remco Polman

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Genre: Animation short
Running time: 18′

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Le chat qui pleure

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A ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is punished by his mother and has to spend an afternoon with a scary old man. The boy will learn a lesson about life when he discovers the old man’s terrible secret.

Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol

Producers: Folimage, Lunanime

Genre: Animation short
Running time: 8’37”

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21 XOXO

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21 XOXO is a surreal and humorous reflection on the 21st century youth. The story is about a girl and her online search for love in times of social media, speed dating, cyberlove, hipster culture and post-net attitudes. The main character takes us on a journey throughout a colourful and bizarre imaginary world filled with absurd, surreal en metaphoric scenes.

Director: Sine Özbilge
Scenario: Sine Özbilge
Produced by: Annemie Degryse
Production Company: Lunanime
Cast: Indra De Bruyn, Darya Gantura, Steven Boen

Genre: Animation short

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Sthlm Requiem

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Cast: Liv Mjönes (Agent Hamilton), Mikael Birkkjaer (Borgen), Jonas Karlsson (Beck), Alexej Manvelov (Occupied, Arne Dahl), Sanna Sundqvist, Axel Daeseleire, Joke Devynck, Natali Broods, Ronny Waterschoot

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While each episode is self-contained, they are all framed by a main, cohesive case involving all of the series’ main characters. The series has a unique time scale, each film taking place a year after the previous one. This will allow the series to chronicle the greater changes within its characters and society.

Little girl disappears from a platform at Stockholm’s Central Station. The girl’s father quickly falls under suspicion and every effort is made to locate him. New recruit Fredrika Bergman however, suspects that he is innocent and she battles to steer her colleagues Alex and Peder in another direction.

An elderly priest and his wife, who have been secretly helping refugees for years, are found dead in their apartment in the Odenplan area of Stockholm. Having left a note, outwardly it appears to have been suicide, the police suspect foul play.

There’s an Israeli legend about “the Paper Boy”, a figure who abducts children in the night. No-one really remembers this old myth until two children disappear from the Jewish Salomon School in Stockholm. When a teacher is shot dead in front of his pupils the next day, people wonder if the Paper Boy has reawakened.

The remains of a young woman reported missing several years before are discovered pasted in the concrete below Slussen. She was one of Alex and Peder’s cases in episode 1. Soon more grim discoveries are made at the crime scene – hidden secrets, decades old.

A finance executive is found murdered in his luxury home and a cryptic note is discovered at the scene. More murders follow, all seemingly unconnected apart from the fact that each of the victims had previously been investigated by the team (in the previous episodes) and all of them somehow evaded justice.

Directors: Karin Fahlén & Lisa Ohlin

Producers: Piodor Gustaffson, Martina Stöhr, Petra Jönsson – Spark Film & TV (SE), Jan De Clercq & Annemie Degryse – Lunanime (BE)

Writers: Jörgen Hjerdt, Pauline Wolff

Release: 2019

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Genre: Swedish fiction series, based on books by Kristina Ohlsson
Running time: 5 x 90′

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Bullets

Bullets

Cast: Sibel Kekilli, Krista KosonenDragomir Mrsic, Koen De Bouw

Synopsis
BULLETS is a character-driven drama thriller about an exceptionally gifted undercover cop MARI SAARI, who delves dangerously deep in the roles that she is playing.

In season one the undercover cop MARI SAARI infiltrates the inner circle of a suicide bomber recruiter MADINA TABUROVA who has travelled to Finland for her final mission. The only way to prevent the unthinkable from happening is for Mari to befriend the menacing Madina.

But everything is not as it seems. The real reason Madina has come to Finland is not destruction, but reconstruction, as Madina tries to reunite with her long lost daughter.

In exchange for her daughter, a hidden cabal of conspirators are forcing Madina to execute a political assassination disguised as a terrorist attack.

Mari needs to reveal hidden forces operating behind the scenes who pressure Madina to carry out a lethal attack.

Director: Antti J. Jokinen

Producers: Minna Virtanen (Vertigo, Finland)
Peter Nadermann & Thomas Disch (Nadcon Film, Duitsland)
Jan De Clercq & Annemie Degryse (Lunanime, België)

Writers: Antti Pesonen & Matti Laine, Kirsi Vikman

Concept: Minna Virtanen, Antti Pesonen

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Filming dates: October 2017 
Locations:
Belgium

Genre: tv-series, crime
Running time: 10 x 45′

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