13/07/2017 - 11 projects, including 7 fiction features and the debut film by Didier Van Cauwelaert, will receive support as a result of the 4th session of support from screen.brussels

€1,000,000 will be divided up between the 11 projects chosen by screen.brussels, the Brussels-based investment fund, which, by doing so, is hoping to generate €7,250,000 in structuring audiovisual spending in the Brussels-Capital Region.

Among the films receiving support is one international star (Thomas Vinterberg and his film Kursk [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
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film profile] by Rwandan director Joël Karekezi, produced by Néon Rouge and starring Marc Zinga (Scouting for Zebras [+see also:
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interview: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fal…
interview: Matteo Simoni
film profile], the latest film by the duo made up of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah who we recently told you all about (see news article), the first production by 10.80 Films, the company formed by Nabil Ben Yadir and Benoît Roland.

The programme for this session also features three debut films: Cleo [+see also:
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Last but not least there’s the latest film by director Delphine Lehericey, Beyond the Horizon [+see also:
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Interview with Joann Sfar, director of…
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
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(Translated from French)