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Belgian Films Put on a Show of Force at Festivals as Global Co-Productions Increase
At Venice, industry delegates from French-speaking Belgium built on the robust show of force at Cannes, touting home-grown projects.
At Venice, industry delegates built on that robust show of force, touting home-grown projects like Fabrice Du Welz’s police thriller “Maldoror” and co-productions like Aude Léa Rapin’s sci-fi drama “Planet B” and Marie Losier’s music doc “Peaches Goes Bananas,” while young producers took to the Lido to forge new partnerships beyond the traditional mold. While local sons Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have lent their name and renown to projects from fellow Palme d’Or winners Ken Loach and Cristian Mungiu — and have recently supported Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” through their Les Films du Fleuve banner — the country’s Cinema and Audiovisual Center has encouraged such unions with a $1.3 million co-production fund. The latter move has proven particularly fruitful, leading to successive Cannes prizes for Paloma Sermon-Daï’s “It’s Raining in the House” in 2023 and Roberto Minervini’s “The Damned” this year, thus establishing Michigan Film as a formidable player on the European scene.
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