01/10/2015 - Wallimage is supporting the behemoths of genre film Cattet and Forzani for the first time, as well as Flemish director Bavo Defurne and four French co-productions

Directorial duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani

For the first time, Wallimage (and, by extension, Wallimage/Bruxellimage) has decided to co-finance a feature film by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. Nominated in 2011 for the Magritte Award for Amer [+see also:
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As for co-productions, Wallimage-Bruxellimage will be supporting Tamara [+see also:
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Another major co-production, Le Docteur de Kinshasa [+see also:
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Frakas Productions had presented Grave, by Julia Ducourneau, the story of a vegetarian who is about to stray dramatically from her nutritional principles and try out forbidden pleasures. Frakas is co-producing another film that is receiving support, Souvenir [+see also:
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(Translated from French)