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Keeper, Guillaume Senez’s first feature

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- Guillaume Senez started filming his first feature at the end of July with two young French language cinema hopefuls, Kacey Mottet-Klein and Galatea Bellugi

Keeper, Guillaume Senez’s first feature
Guillaume Senez ©FIFF

Since 28 July, and up until 25 August, Guillaume Senez, a young Belgian director (noted as creator of short film U.H.T., nominated for the Magritte for Best Short Film) will shoot his first feature film, Keeper [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Guillaume Senez ­
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
film profile
]
, in Walloon-Brabant and in Alsace. 

Maxime and Mélanie are 15 years old. They’re in love. Together, they passionately and thoughtlessly explore their sexuality, until Mélanie discovers that she’s pregnant. Maxime takes the news badly, but then he’s reassured by the idea of becoming a father. So he convinces Mélanie to keep the baby. 

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Starring in the roles of Maxime and Mélanie are Kacey Mottet-Klein (Sister [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile
]
 by Ursula Meier and Gainsbourg [+see also:
trailer
Interview with Joann Sfar, director of…
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
film profile
]
 by Joann Sfar) and Galatea Bellugi accompanied by actors Catherine Salée (Two Days, One Night [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile
]
, Blue Is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile
]
, What Makes You Happy
 [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fabrizio Rongione
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile
]
), Laetita Dosch (Age of Panic [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
) and Sam Louwyck (The Wonders [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alice Rohrwacher
interview: Tiziana Soudani
film profile
]
, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears
 [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Bullhead [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bart Van Langendonck
interview: Michaël R. Roskam
film profile
]
).

The film is produced by Iota Production, also producer of She’s Not Crying, She’s Singing [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
from Philippe de Pierpont (who’s preparing to film his second feature, once again with Iota), and of numerous short films and documentaries, including Tea or Electricity from Jérôme Le Maire, or RAS nucléaire, rien à signaler  (RAS nuclear energy, nothing to report) from Alain de Halleux. Keeper is co-produced with Louise Production (Switzerland), Offshore (France) and Savage Film (Flanders), with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation CCA (film and audiovisual centre), the VAF, the Alsace Region and the CNC

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(Translated from French)

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