Having just benefited from a substantial budget increase that will allow for the organisation of an additional annual financing session (read our interview), the Wallimage regional fund has just announced the results of its 91^st funding session, with a majority of Belgian projects, which was not always previously customary.

The fund will support the first feature film by young director Laura Wandel. Spotted at Cannes in 2014 with her short film Les Corps étrangers, she returns with La Naissance des arbres, a 100% Belgian project produced by the company Dragons Films.

After Kinshasa Kids [+lee también:
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This session also marks the return of François Pirot. After his first feature, Mobile Home [+lee también:
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Wallimage will also be supporting two documentaries,  L’Aumônier et le Nazi by Idriss Gabel and Marie Calvas (produced by Agent Double), and L’Ecole de l’impossible by Thierry Michel, who is focusing on his next project after filming the documentary Children of Chance [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. The project was also produced by Christine Pireaux for Les Films de la Passerelle.

It's worth noting that Wallimage will finally be financing Musique de chambre, Christophe Honoré's new film starring Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Lacoste and Camille Cottin, produced in France by Les Films Pelléas and co-produced in Belgium by Scope Pictures, as well as two animated series, Kid Lucky and Hello Charlie.