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EVENTS Belgium

6th Francophone Production Forum renamed Expertise Workshop

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The sixth Francophone Production Forum, organised by the Namur International Francophone Film Festival, in collaboration with the Liaison Office for Films from Francophone Countries, will be held from October 2-5.

Renamed the Expertise Workshop, the event will offer eight producer/director teams with Francophone feature film projects the opportunity to hold individual meetings with experts in screenwriting, directing and production, who have studied their projects beforehand.

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Over the past five years, films as diverse as Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Cages [+see also:
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, Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s A Perfect Day [+see also:
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, Karim Dridi’s Khamsa [+see also:
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, Philippe Van Leeuw’s Rwanda, The Day God Walked Away and Frédéric Dumont’s Angel at Sea [+see also:
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(which has just won the Grand Prize at Karlovy Vary) have participated in the Forum.

Eight new projects, from all four corners of the vast Francophone world, will thus be evaluated by experts.

Ismaël Saïdi’s Moroccan Gigolo, presented by Luxembourg’s Bidibul Productions, centres on four young Brussels residents from different backgrounds who decide to supplement their income by getting paid to woo mature ladies in need of affection.

Olivier Ringer’s David & Rebecca (produced by Belgium’s Ring Productions) traces the final journey of an old Ukrainian couple bound for Canada to find their exiled children.

France’s Mille et Une Productions continues its recent work in Tunisia (after Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String) by backing Homeida Béhi’s debut feature, Nesma.

Two projects from Quebec, two Cameroonian projects and an Algerian film have also been selected.

The Workshop is supported by the Film and Audiovisual Centre of the Belgian French Community, the CNC, the Luxembourg Film Fund, the Swiss Federal Office for Culture, the International Francophone Organisation, SODEC and Telefilm Canada.

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(Translated from French)

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