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The CCA is backing new films by Joachim Lafosse and Sirot & Balboni

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- The Belgian Film Commission (CCA) is supporting 60 new film projects following its second 2021 session, including Le Fils de la Loi and (Ex)perience of Love

The CCA is backing new films by Joachim Lafosse and Sirot & Balboni
Directors Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni (© Aurore Engelen)

Steered by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre, the Belgian Film Commission has just announced the results of its second session for 2021, which will see it lend support for the production of Joachim Lafosse’s new film Le Fils de la Loi, Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s second feature film (after Madly in Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Raphaël Balboni & Ann Sirot
film profile
]
) (Ex)perience of Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni
film profile
]
, and Michiel Blanchart’s debut feature film La Nuit se traine. In all, 60 new films are set to receive aid.

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After the resounding success of The Restless [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile
]
, which was selected to compete in Cannes, Joachim Lafosse is preparing Un silence [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile
]
, once again with Stenola Productions, whom he also worked with on his previous film. We don’t know much about the movie for now, other than the fact that it will explore Belgium’s recent history.

Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni are continuing their collaboration with Hélicotronc by way of their new film and its tantalising pitch: Rémy and Sandra can’t have children on account of their suffering from “Past Lovers Syndrome”. There’s only one road to recovery: they must sleep with all of their exes one more time.

Michiel Blanchart, who has just signed a contract with Tristar to make an American remake of his short film You’re Dead, Hélène (read our news), is also in line for a production grant to help out with his first feature film, La nuit se traîne, which is produced by Daylight Films in Belgium and by Formosa Productions in France.

In addition to production subsidies, the Commission are also supporting development on 7 feature film projects, including the much-anticipated new film by the category-defying pair Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Let the Corpses Tan [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
film profile
]
, The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
). In Darling, they leave their homes for New York, and travel back in time to the 1960s to tell a story revolving around art and vengeance. The film’s production will be steered by Gapbusters.

Last but not least, on the writing side of things, Zoé Wittock (Jumbo [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Zoé Wittock
film profile
]
) is currently working on the screenplay for Transition, on behalf of Kwassa Films; Laurent Micheli (Even Lovers Get the Blues [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Lola [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laurent Micheli
film profile
]
) is adapting Nino dans la nuit by Capucine and Simon Johannin, on behalf of Wrong Men; and Martha Bergman (Alone at my Wedding [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Marta Bergman
film profile
]
) is writing Amareo in league with young actor and filmmaker Yoann Zimmer. The film is based on the tragic yet extraordinary life of Brussels-based artistic Stéphane Mandelbaum, with production entrusted to Frakas.

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(Translated from French)

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