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A retrospective and premieres for the Be Film Festival

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- The Be Film Festival, which honours Belgian cinema, will this year devote itself to debut films, and have the prestigious patronage of Jaco Van Dormael

A retrospective and premieres for the Be Film Festival
Keeper by Guillaume Senez

For ten years now, the Be Film Festival has been giving Belgian viewers an overview of Belgian cinema of the past year, serving as an opportunity to (re)-discover Belgian films released over the last 12 months in all their glorious diversity but also to attend a number of film premieres.

This year, the Be Film Festival has a first-class patron in the form of Jaco Van Dormael. Festivalgoers will, of course, be able to see The Brand New Testament [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jaco van Dormael
film profile
]
, but will also be able to participate in a master class given by the director after the film, a unique opportunity to learn a bit more about the poetic and off-the-chain world of this Belgian filmmaker.

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Turning to premieres, Be Film is pushing the boat out. First up is a trio of debut features, unveiled at this year’s Namur Film Festival: Keeper [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Guillaume Senez ­
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
film profile
]
, by Guillaume Senez, which will open the Festival; Beyond Here [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, a debut film directed and self-produced by Hugo Bousquet; Je me tue à le dire [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Xavier Seron
film profile
]
, a black, off-the-wall and iconoclastic comedy by Xavier Seron; and finally Parasol [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Valéry Rosier, which has already had a good run in international festivals (Busan, San Sebastián, and Amiens, where it won the Audience Award). Also featuring are two other feature films: Un homme à la mer by Géraldine Doignon (who also made De leur vivant), and Welcome Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Philippe de Pierpont (who was also behind She’s Not Crying, She’s Singing [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
). The Be Film Festival will also be placing documentaries front and centre, notably with the premiere of Eclaireurs by Christophe Hermans, and Eurovillage by François Pirot. There will also be a first at this year’s Festival, with the screening of the first two episodes of highly anticipated Belgian series The Break, directed by Matthieu Donck. Finally, the Be Film being a window on Belgian cinema, there will be no shortage of Flemish films, with the premieres of Fallow [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Laurent Van Lancker, and Problemski Hotel [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Manu Riche.

The Festival will be held from 26 to 31 December at the Bozar in Brussels.

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(Translated from French)

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