A total of 24 feature-length documentary projects will be presented during the second edition of Flanders Film Days, running October 6-7 in Ghent, Belgium.
The doc component of the international showcase for audiovisual content and talent, will comprises six new project pitches by Flemish filmmakers, nine works in progress and nine completed films.
The Project Pitch section will see the presentation of new projects from the likes of Olga Lucovnicova, Maarten Stuyck & Lennart Stuyck, Pieter Van Eecke and Eva Küpper, while leading Flemish production companies such as Diplodokus, Clin d’oeil Films and Menuetto will be busy pitching their new documentary works.
The Works in Progress programme will include Brussels-based director Frederike Migom, selected for Berlinale earlier this year with Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays, who will present her feature-length documentary project To Be Me. Sofie Benoot, whose Apple Cider Vinegar was selected for a slew of festivals in 2024/5, will present her new work Hello?!
Finished documentaries at the upcoming Flanders Film Days include Kristof Bilsen’s The Apologist, selected for Sheffield DocFest International Competition, and no fewer than four completed films from Visualantics, the production company headed up by Brecht Debackere, Steven Dhoedt and Gert Van Berckelaer. The company will also present the work in progress, The Technological Sublime by Jannes Callens.
Organisers point out that the majority of projects presented at Flanders Film Days are still seeking world sales representation and a festival premiere. While invitations are still going out, confirmed attendees already include representatives from TIFF, Locarno, Berlinale, San Sebastián, FIDMarseille, IFFR, Giornate degli Autori and ACID Cannes, as well as sales agents M-Appeal, Films Boutique, Autlook, Indie Sales, Salaud Morisset, True Colours and The Match Factory.
A total of 50 international and 75 Belgian film industry representatives are expected to attend the event.
PROJECT PITCHES
- Between Us and the Moon, directed by Olga Lucovnicova & Annabel Verbeke (prod. While We’re Here)
- A Feeling for the Ice, directed by Maarten Stuyck & Lennart Stuyck (documentary, prod. Diplodokus)
- The Forecasters, directed by Pieter Van Eecke (documentary, prod. Clin d’oeil Films)
- El Huevo de la Serpiente, directed by Andrès Lübbert (documentary, prod. Krater Films)
- Icara, directed by Eva Küpper (documentary, prod. Menuetto)
- Thank You For Responding, directed by Pascal Poissonnier (documentary, prod. While We’re Here)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
- Do Matki, directed by Mattias Bavré (documentary, prod. Salto)
- Gomago, directed by Children’s Filmmaker Collective Goma & Sarah Vanagt (documentary, prod. Balthasar)
- Hello?!, directed by Sofie Benoot (documentary, prod. Quetzalcoatl)
- Let the Sea Take Away All Evil, directed by Laura Vandewynckel (documentary, prod. Krater Films)
- Mtazamaji (The Observer), directed by TD Jack Muhindo Mahamba & Elien Spillebeen (documentary, prod. Het Peloton)
- Neowise, directed by Joy Maurits (documentary, prod. Mountain View)
- The Six, directed by Reiner Holzemer (documentary, prod. Aminata Productions)
- The Technological Sublime, directed by Jannes Callens (documentary, prod. Visualantics Productions)
- To Be Me, directed by Frederike Migom (documentary, prod. Cassette for timescapes)
FINISHED PROJECTS
- All Roads Lead to Rieme, directed by David Bert Joris Dhert (documentary, prod. La chose à trois jambes C3J)
- The Apologist, directed by Kristof Bilsen (documentary, prod. Limerick Films, sales Film Harbour)
- Jean, directed by Jolke Van Aerde (documentary, prod. Accattone Films)
- Little Monster, directed by Glenn Dumortier (documentary, prod. Visualantics Productions)
- Mahboul, directed by Jannes Callens & Jan Vromman (documentary, prod. Visualantics Productions)
- Modou Modou, directed by Brahim Tall (documentary, prod. Auguste Orts)
- Nostalgia for the Future, directed by Brecht Debackere (documentary, prod. Visualantics Productions)
- Tanto eucalipto, tão poucos coalas, directed by Preben Verledens & Maui Druez (documentary, prod. Visualantics Productions)
- Until We Fall Apart, directed by Philippe Niclaes (documentary, prod. Salto)
Supported by Screen Flanders, Screen Brussels, Flow Postproduction and Kinepolis, Flanders Film Days is an initiative of Flanders Image, the international promotion department of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), in close collaboration with the Ghent Film Festival. It is an invitation-only event aimed at international film festivals and sales agents, with the goal of “putting films from Flanders on the radar of festival programmers and industry decision-makers from an early stage.”
