The 183 film projects submitted to the Film Commission were whittled down to the approved 57, which represents a selection rate of 31.15%. These approved films will receive financial support from the Film Commission by way of €3.54 million.
The proposals for funding during the first half of the 2022 session were approved by Bénédicte Linard, the Minister of Media and Culture.
On 6 July, the government of Wallonia-Brussels approved the additional use of €5 million of the European Recovery and Resilience Plan (NextGenerationEU) to better promote the audiovisual productions of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
"The objective of this project is to develop prototypes of technological tools to enable cultural and media operators to better promote their content on the Internet, by improving what is called their 'discoverability,' ie their ability to be identified by users among a vast set of other content," Linard said in a recent press release.
Of the 57 projects supported, 26 of which are feature films, 19 are creative documentaries, 9 are short films and 3 are lab films.
Belgian Feature Films
Four of the 26 full-length feature films are from French-speaking Belgians.
Brussels directors Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne submitted the working project "A Man of the World" to the Film Commission. The directors were inspired by the true story of a professor who became, against his will, the official tour guide for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the beginning of World War II.
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Other film projects include theatre director Claude Schmitz's "L'autre Laurens" ("The Other Laurens") and Jawad Rhalib's fictional "Amal."
Film director and screenwriter Olivier Meys looks at the chronic resignation crisis at a Belgian centre for asylum seekers in "La vie devant nous" ("The Life Before Us").
Full descriptions of the 57 upcoming projects can be found on the Cinema and Audiovisual Centre website.
