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RELEASES Belgium

Two Belgian films amidst flurry of new releases

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In Belgium, 14 new releases are hitting theatres this week, including two Belgian productions, which will have a hard time finding their audience.

On the Dutch-language side, Kinepolis is launching a 20-print run of Hans Herbot’s Bo, based on a local teenage best-seller. Rebellious 15-year-old Deborah is stifled by provincial life and dreams of the city lights. Intoxicated by the discovery that her body can earn her quick money, she gets her fingers burnt and ends up in a youth detention centre.

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Produced byCaviar, the film received support from the VAF.

On the French-language side, audiences will have the chance to discover Frédéric Dumont’s debut feature Angel at Sea [+see also:
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, starring Olivier Gourmet and Anne Consigny.

Inspired by a painful memory, Angel at Sea tells the story of 12-year-old Louis, who suddenly has to grow up quickly as he desperately tries to save his father from foretold death. The film’s strong emotional charge, and its uncompromising portrayal of a father-son relationship based on complicity and psychological violence, moved the jury at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, who awarded it the Grand Prize, as well as Best Actor for Gourmet.

Angel at Sea was produced by Belgium’s Dragons Films, and co-produced by Canada’s Palomar Films. It received backing from the French Community Film Centre and the RTBF, as well as Tax Shelter funding. Imagine Film Distribution is releasing the title on three screens.

The plethora of other European films being released this school-holiday week includes three animated films: Eckart Fingberg’s Jasper: Journey to the End of the World [+see also:
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(Germany); Jorgen Lerdam and Andere Serensen’s Pettson & Findus (Sweden); and Jorge Blanco and Javier Abad’s Spanish/UK co-production Planet 51 [+see also:
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, which is being launched on a large 59-print run.

The line-up also includes Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher’s The Horde [+see also:
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, a variation on the gore theme; and Marco Bellochio’s Vincere [+see also:
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, presented at Cannes.

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(Translated from French)

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