28/01/2016 - The committee has offered support worth a total of €3,769,250 to 18 feature-length fiction projects, 12 shorts, 16 documentaries and 5 experimental films

Six majority features will receive production aid from the Film Selection Committee of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’s Film and Audiovisual Centre, including the new movies by Olivier Masset-Depasse and David Lambert. 

In his fourth feature, Irremplaçable, Olivier Masset-Depasse tells the story of Alice and Céline, whose friendship will be smashed to smithereens when the son of one of the women is accidentally killed, while the other witnesses it, powerless to act. The film is an adaptation of a successful thriller by Belgian novelist Barbara Abel and will be produced by Versus. Troisièmes noces [+see also:
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As for the documentaries, we should highlight the return of Philippe de Pierpont (whose second fiction feature, Welcome Home [+see also:
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In 2015, 139 film projects were granted aid, for a total sum of €9,691,050, thus making the Wallonia-Brussels Federation the number-one source of support for film production in French-speaking Belgium.

(Translated from French)