The Belgian Minister of Culture has just announced the results of the first 2020 session of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre’s Film Selection Committee. Exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures, and so the hearings for this first session of the year were held remotely, while it was also possible to send submissions for the second committee 100% online.

Among the 56 projects receiving backing are feature films by multidisciplinary talents such as musician Baloji, who has already helmed several short films, and whose feature debut, Omen [+lee también:
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Three other majority Belgian features are being backed at the production stage. In La vierge à l’enfant [+lee también:
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Also of note is the support conferred upon the eagerly awaited sophomore features by auteurs who have already made quite an impact. Marta Bergman (Alone at My Wedding [+lee también:
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