For its first financial support session of 2018, Wallimage, the Walloon regional investment fund, is throwing its weight behind two new Belgian features: The Queen’s Corgi [+lee también:
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The next production by the Belgian king of 3D animation and undisputed champ of the box office, Ben Stassen, sounds fairly ambitious. After The Son of Bigfoot [+lee también:
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Meanwhile, Adoration is the last instalment in Fabrice du Welz’s Ardennes-set trilogy, which kicked off with The Ordeal [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. The film follows 12-year-old Paul, a young boy living with his mother, who works as a cleaning lady at a private hospital deep in the woods. When schizophrenic teenager Gloria arrives, he falls in love with her and convinces himself to help her escape, whatever the cost. The lead roles have been entrusted to Thomas Gioria (Custody [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. The sales will be handled by Memento, and the shoot will take place this summer.

Wallimage is also backing three French films: Ma mère est folle [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Diane Kurys, co-produced by Nexus Factory; Premier de la classe by Stéphane Ben Lahcen, co-produced by Umedia; and The Bouncer by Julien Leclercq, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, which is a co-production by 1080 Films, the company founded by Nabil Ben Yadir and Benoît Roland.