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9th edition for the Be Film Festival

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- The Be Film Festival will offer for the 9th time in Brussels an eclectic programme focused on Belgian cinema for the end of year holidays

9th edition for the Be Film Festival
Tango Libre by Frédéric Fonteyne

The Be Film Festival will open its doors on December 26 for the 9th time. Organized by the non-profit Un soir un grain (founder of the Brussels Short Film Festival), the Be Film Festival sheds the spotlight at the end of the year on Belgian cinema in all its aesthetic, linguistic and thematic forms...  It is an opportunity to join under one banner the cinemas of the North and South in one central location, Brussels. The idea is to recall the highlights of the year but also give a preview of 2014. This year, the director Frédéric Fonteyne will sponsor the event, with a chance to rediscover his latest film, Tango Libre [+see also:
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interview: Frédéric Fonteyne
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]
, which was released last winter and is amongst the favourite contenders for the next Magritte of Belgian cinema.  

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For the opening and closing, spectators will discover two unreleased films. On December 26, Les Ames de Papier [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Vincent Lannoo
film profile
]
, the new film by the very prolific Vincent Lannoo, with a luxury cast (Stéphane Guillon, Jonathan Zaccaï, Julie Gayet and Pierre Richard), will open the festival. This fantastico-romantic Christmas tale, which will in fact be released on December 25 in France, should come out at the beginning of 2014 in Belgian theatres. The closing ceremony will welcome Puppy Love [+see also:
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, the first feature by Delphine Lehericey, unveiled in San Sebastian.

Other avant-premières include Tokyo Anyway, the first feature by Camille Ménard produced by Sténola production, and L’Age de Raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne, a documentary by Luc Jabon and Alain Marcoen, which recalls the work of the famous Belgian brothers and is based on a very peculiar reading of their films, as well as accounts of those who worked with them.  

The festival will also give the opportunity of seeing for the first or second time films that were released in 2013 such as Het Vonnis [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
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, Kid [+see also:
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film profile
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, Hors les murs [+see also:
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making of
interview: David Lambert
film profile
]
, A Pelada
 [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, or take part in events mixing music and cinema, such as a mini-concert by Ozark Henry before the screening of The World Belongs to Us [+see also:
trailer
interview: Stephan Streker
film profile
]
by Stephan Streker, as well as an exceptional screening of the film by Caroline Strubbe, I’m the Same, I’m Another [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, during which the original soundtrack will be played live on the piano, cello and saxophone.

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(Translated from French)

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