24/10/2013 - After La Marche, which will be released at the end of November, Nabil Ben Yadir is already working on his new project, Dode Hoek, a thriller with Flemish actor Jan Decleir

Nabil Ben Yadir

Wallimage’s 49^th session of the selection committee chose to back the next project by Nabil Ben Yadir. The filmmaker from Brussels made himself known to the public in the autumn of 2009 with the dazzling and slightly surprising success of his fist feature, Les Barons [+see also:
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film profile]. In an increasingly competitive environment for Belgian Francophone cinema, the film, which brought together over 170,000 spectators, was like a UFO in the cinematographic landscape. Many wondered what would come next, and Ben Yadir turned to France by directing La Marche, a big historical production with added value, recounting the famous episode of the Beurs’ March, whose 30^th anniversary will be celebrated this autumn. The film will be released in France and Belgium at the end of November. 

But Ben Yadir is already working in his next film, Dode Hoek, which Wallimage has decided to back. Dode Hoek is presented as a seriously hard-hitting thriller, following Jan Decleir (a figure of Flemish cinema seen in Les Barons, but also in The Alzheimer Case [+see also:
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Wallimage will also back 3 minority coproductions. Terre Battue, the first feature by Stéphane Demoustier, follows the rise of a young tennis prodigy in parallel with the fall of his father (Olivier Gourmet), a commercial manager, recently divorced and fired. The film is coproduced in Belgium by Les Films du Fleuve. Also funded, La French, by Cédric Jimenez, with Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, but also Guillaume Gouix, Bruno Todeschini, Benoît Magimel, Céline Salette and Mélanie Doutey, coproduced by Scope Pictures, and Disparue en Hiver by Christophe Lamotte, a dramatic comedy with Kad Merad, coproduced by Iris Production.

(Translated from French)