23/01/2013 - Between safe bets, first-timers and second drafts in need of transformation, the results from the last CCA committee promise many hours of great cinema

The CCA’s Film Selection Committee has just announced the results of its final session in 2012. Between unexpected comebacks, serene continuity, promising first drafts and second attempts, the up-coming crop of Belgian films promises to be both rich and varied.  

In the field of screenwriting, 20 years after La Vie Sexuelle des Belges, Jan Bucquoy, pie-throwing accomplice and herald of post-surrealism, is making a notable comeback with Liège Bastogne Liège, which perpetuates his great adventure of “cultural entertainment in a hostile environment”. Vincent Lannoo, on the other hand, is still on his rather bulimic roll. After the revelation that Martin Swabey’s last-but-one movie Little Glory will compete for the Magritte for Best Male Newcomer, with his last film Au nom du fils [+see also:
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On the production side, FraKas is on a roll, with two of its projects selected by the CCA: Moroccan Gigolo’s, Ismaël Saïdi’s first movie, currently being filmed, and I Am Yours, the second film by David Lambert, whose first film, Hors les Murs [+see also:
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(Translated from French)