18/06/2021 - The regional investment fund pledged its support to 14 new projects during its 16th session, including 6 Belgian feature films

Brussels’ regional investment fund screen.brussels has just announced the results of its 16th session. Among the 14 projects set to receive support, we find a podcast (for the very first time), a TV series, 2 animated projects, 2 documentaries, 2 digital series and 6 new Belgian feature films, no less.

Among these is the new film by Delphine Lehericey, whose beautiful earlier work Beyond the Horizon [+see also:
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The fund is also throwing its weight behind two directors who have already proved their worth in the world of short films and who are now making the leap to feature films. Emmanuelle Nicot, who turned heads with A l’arraché, will shoot Dalva [+see also:
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Other films on the receiving end of screen.brussels’ support are the Dardenne brothers’ new film Tori et Lokita, which will also be shot this summer (produced by Les Films du Fleuve and Savage Films in Belgium and by Archipel 35 in France), Philippe Van Leeuw’s highly awaited new film (after In Syria [+see also:
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(Translated from French)