14/07/2009

Cinergie presents its summertime 140th webzine issue. The website team made the most of the first days of July to attend the Brussels Film Festival, and meet with the creators of the Belgian films presented.

There was a cheerful atmosphere at the screening of Yves Hanchar’s No Hard Feelings!, and among the editorial staff, who praised the film, which is popular in the good sense of the term and "treats viewers with respect, and its characters with affection".

Cinergie also met with the original trio of Olivier Boonjing’s Somewhere Between Here and Now. This "gradually identified floating object" of a film had the good fortune of winning over festival audiences, captivated by the cosmopolitan vision of Brussels as a meeting place for wandering souls.

This free film, freed from financial constraints, takes its time and traces the sophisticated banter of a girl returning home and a boy about to leave, in the muffled night of the European capital.

Staying with Belgian news, Cinergie visited the shoot for Bernard Halut’s Miss Mouche, one of two projects selected in 2009 by the Cinéastes Associés’ scheme for micro-budget films.

Miss Mouche is "the mosaic-like portrait of a family viewed through a 12-year-old girl’s mobile phone videos", where the films prompt some collective soul-searching. Shooting wrapped up on July 9 in the Brussels region.

Two documentaries are also in the headlines. Congolese director Monique Mbeka Phoba, the main figure behind the collective project Entre La Coupe et L’élection (“Between the Cup and the Election”), about the Leopards of Zaire, the first black African team to take part in the Football World Cup in 1974, looks back at the genesis of the project and the difficulties in seeing it through to successful completion.

Meanwhile, in R.A.S, Alain de Halleux focuses on the daily life of maintenance workers in nuclear power stations.

(Translated from French)