25/02/2021 - The Brussels-born director will start filming her first fiction feature on 10 March

After winning the Magritte award for Best Documentary in 2017 for her medium-length film En bataille, portrait d’une directrice de prison, Eve Duchemin is about to start filming her first fiction feature, Time Out [+see also:
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According to the filmmaker, "after three years spent exploring the Liancourt jail, I couldn’t leave this prison world before honouring the inmates. Equipped with their stories, and with a certain desire to thumb by nose at what I’d done before, I wanted this time to film them as they left the prison. To see them finally get through this big and heavy metal door, the time of a temporary leave.”

Time Out thus follows the peculiar journey of three inmates, outside of prison the time of a weekend. 48 hours to land. 48 hours to renew their ties with their close ones. 48 hours to make up for lost time.

Playing the inmates, we will find Karim Leklou (seen recently in The Third War [+see also:
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Time Out is produced by Annabella Nezri for Kwassa Films (the company behind recent titles Jumbo [+see also:
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Beginning on 10 March, filming will take place in Brussels, in the Walloon Brabant, and in Meaux. It will conclude in late April.

(Translated from French)