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Wallimage supports Matteo Garrone’s new work during the fund’s 108th session

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- In its new session dedicated to co-productions, the regional Walloon investment fund continues to lend aid to large-scale Italian co-productions

Wallimage supports Matteo Garrone’s new work during the fund’s 108th session
Director Matteo Garrone, whose new project Io Capitano has been selected (© Harald Krichel)

Wallimage has committed to support three fiction feature films on the occasion of its 108th session. For several years now, the fund has been a regular backer of Italian co-productions and is now pleased to be offering assistance to prestigious Roman director Matteo Garrone and his new project Io Capitano [+see also:
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, which speaks of the incredible odyssey of two young Senegalese men as they make their way to Italy. The film is carried in Italy by Archimede - the production firm belonging to the director who previously gave us Gomorrah [+see also:
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interview: Domenico Procacci
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Matteo Garrone
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and Dogman [+see also:
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interview: Matteo Garrone
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, to name but two of his works – in co-production with Tarantula Belgique and Tarantula Luxembourg.

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Support is likewise winging its way to another Italian film: La Guardia by Giulio Ricciarelli (Labyrinth of Lies [+see also:
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interview: Giulio Ricciarelli
interview: Giulio Ricciarelli
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), a movie also examining issues linked to migration, following in the footsteps of a female police officer working in a detention centre. The film is produced by La Sarraz Pictures in Italy, in co-production with Heimatfilm in Germany and Gapbusters in Belgium.

The third feature-length movie to win support is French work Acide [+see also:
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by Just Philippot (The Swarm [+see also:
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interview: Just Philippot
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), which is a disaster sci-fi film about a family (including Guillaume Canet and Laetitia Dosch) who are forced to flee a cloud of acid rain. Production is entrusted to Bonne Pioche in France and to Umedia in Belgium.

Wallimage is also throwing its weight behind three series. First and foremost, there’s Arcanes, a Belgian series co-written by Benjamin Dessy and Michèle Jacob (of short film Juillet 96), the latter also co-directing the series alongside Sarah Hirtt (Escapada [+see also:
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interview: Sarah Hirtt
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). The series is produced by Beluga Tree, which belongs to Belgian producer Diana Elbaum.

There’s also the fourth season of the hit adaptation The Crimson Rivers, which is based upon the world of Jean-Christophe Grangé and is carried by Storia Télévision in France and by Umedia in Belgium.

Last but not least, Wallimage is throwing its weight behind two documentaries: Nanok by Xavier Ziomek and the third instalment of Robert Henno and Jean-Christophe Grignard’s Wallonie Sauvage, not to mention a VR project by the name of Jailbirds.

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(Translated from French)

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