16/11/2005

Numerous European productions are on the bill this week in Belgium, giving a taste of a multicultural Europe without borders.

Beginning with the documentary by the German of Turkish origin Fatih Akin whose last feature Head on [+see also:
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A whole winter with fire, first film by young director of Polish origin also recalls Kiewslowski since Greg Zglinski was a pupil and from whom he retains the sobriety and slowness in order to make this story of bereavement. Belgian co-production (Mars Entertainment) majority Swiss (CAB Productions), who will represent it the Oscars selection for foreign films, it is distributed by Imagine Film Distribution. Still with Switzerland, produced by XL Production, in co-production with ONF (National Film Office of Canada), TSR/SSR and ARTE, Le Souffle du désert (Breath of the desert) is a documentary by François Kohler, former pupil of the INSAS (Ecole de Cinéma Belge).

Finally, Kinepolis distributes Suspect from the Belgian directors Kassablanka (2002), Ivan Boeckmans and Guy Lee Thys (the latter also produced it), a drama about sexual violence and paedophilia.

(Translated from French)