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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

Synopsis
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

Synopsis
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)

Synopsis
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

Bloeistraat 11

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

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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.