A total of 26 documentary feature projects, and four series projects, are selected for the upcoming RE>CONNEXT which will again take place online in 2021.
RE>CONNEXT is the virtual showcase for films and TV series coming from Flanders and Brussels, Belgium. From 4-15 October, a select group of top industry professionals will be granted 24/7 on-demand access to new project pitches, presentations of works in progress, and screenings of recent, new and upcoming titles.
FILMS AT RE>CONNEXT
The selection features 9 new doc projects, including Last Letters From My Grandma by Olga Lucovnicova, winner of this year’s Berlin Golden Bear for her short My Uncle Tudor, and Rachida El Garani (In My Father’s House), both newcomers. Projects will also be pitched by established documentary-makers including Manu Riche (Carbon), Steven Dhoedt (Sunrise Kids), Brecht Debackere (Nostalgia For The Future) and Pieter Van Eecke (Planet B).
The four non-fiction work-in-progress presentations comprise Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat, the new documentary by Johan Grimonprez, as well as And Tomorrow The World by Louisiana Mees and Beast by Jillis Schriel and Joost Laperre. Sahim Omar Khalifa will have a busy RE>CONNEXT, presenting the documentary Iraq’s Invisible Beauty as well as the fictional work-in-progress Baghdad Messi, based on his award-winning short of the same name.
Thirteen new and complete documentaries will screen at the 2021 edition of RE>CONNEXT, including Why We Fight by Mirjam Devriendt and Alain Platel (pictured above), Liesbeth De Ceulaer’s Holgut, Volkan Üce’s All-In and six titles made as part of the Borderline documentary collection, which focusses on unknown but fascinating borders within Europe.
SERIES AT RE>CONNEXT
Of the four non-fiction series titles selected for this year’s edition, one is a new doc pitch: Mobutu, Guillaume Graux’s biopic series on the Congolese dictator, as seen through the prism of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Two non-fiction series projects will be presented as works-in-progress, including Voices Of Liberation, Koen Mortier’s first foray into documentary.
In addition, one completed non-fiction series will screen for industry professionals. This is The Sound Of Seoul by Steven Dhoedt, who will also present his new project Sunrise Kids, produced by Visualantics.
RE>CONNEXT is organized by Flanders Image, a division of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).
RE>CONNEXT 2021 – FILM selections (doc/non-fiction)
Project Pitches
- Carbon by Manu Riche (prod: Menuetto)
- In My Father’s House by Rachida El Garani (prod: Las Belgas)
- Last Letters From My Grandma by Olga Lucovnicova (prod: Off World)
- Life Will Give You Pictures by Aldine Reinink (prod: ZON*DER_LING)
- Louise-Marie by Daphne van den Blink (prod: Lionheart Productions)
- Nostalgia for the Future by Brecht Debackere (prod: Visualantics)
- Planet B by Pieter Van Eecke (prod: Clin d’oeuil)
- Seed by Dries Mertens (prod: Associate Directors)
- Sunrise Kids by Steven Dhoedt (prod: Visualantics)
Works-in-Progress
- And Tomorrow The Whole World by Louisiana Mees (prod: Diplodokus)
- Beast by Jillis Schriel and Joost Laperre (Lionheart Productions)
- Iraq’s Invisible Beauty by Sahim Omar Kalifa (prod: Las Belgas)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez (prod: Zap-o-Matic)
Screenings
- 4 Seasons In A Day by Annabel Verbeke (prod: Off World)
- ALL-IN by Volkan Üce (prod: Cassette for Timescapes)
- As Long As We Can by Philippe Niclaes (prod: Diplodokus)
- Before They Meet by Vytautas Puidokas (prod: Off World)
- Echo by Ruben Desiere (prod: Accattone Films)
- HOLGUT by Liesbeth De Ceulaer (prod: Minds Meet)
- Kind Hearts by Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes (prod: Accattone Films)
- Liberland by Isabella Rinaldi (prod: Off World)
- Prism by An van. Dienderen, El´ónore Yameogo and Rosine Mbakam (prod: Elektrischer Schnellseher)
- Radji by Georg Götmark and John Erling Utsi (prod: Off World)
- Where The World Ends by Anna Savchenko (prod: Off World)
- Why We Fight by Mirjam Devriendt and Alain Platel (prod: Cassette for Timescapes)
- The Wire by Tiha Gudac (prod: Off World)
RE>CONNEXT 2021 – SERIES selections (doc/non-fiction)
Project Pitch
- Mobutu by Guillaume Graux; scr: Wendy Bashi, Salomé Ysebaert and Joost Vandensande (prod: Panenka)
Works-in-Progress
- Capturing the Pirate King by Lennart Stuyck; scr: Lennart Stuyck and Maarten Stuyck (prod: Diplodokus)
- Voices of Liberation by Koen Mortier; scr: Koen Mortier (prod: Czar)
Screening
- The Sound of Seoul by Steven Dhoedt; scr: Steven Dhoedt (prod: Visualantics)
