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Comienza el rodaje de La Salle des pas perdus

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- La semana pasada, Roda Fawaz y Thibaut Wohlfahrt comenzaron el rodaje de su primer largometraje en Amberes, una producción de la compañía de Lieja Frakas

Comienza el rodaje de La Salle des pas perdus
Los directores Roda Fawaz (izquierda) y Thibaut Wohlfahrt

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Monday 4 July saw filming commence in Antwerp on Les pas perdus [+lee también:
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, a debut feature film co-directed by Thibaut Wohlfahrt and Roda Fawaz. A filmmaker who trained at IAD, the former previously turned heads via his two short films, Ciao Bambino and La Traversée, but also via a third short, Bruxelles-Beyrouth, which he co-directed with Samir Youssef. It was while making this movie that he met the Belgian author and actor of Lebanese descent, Roda Fawaz, who was playing the film’s lead role. Another graduate of IAD and the author of several one-man shows, Roda Fawaz is notably known to mainstream audiences for his part in the Belgian series Unit 42 and Invisible, and he’ll soon be hitting screens once again in 1985, a Belgian event series co-produced by the country’s two public broadcasters, RTBF and VRT. Fawaz is also acting in the present film.

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In Les pas perdus, Thibaut Wohlfahrt and Roda Fawaz set up their cameras in a location which is emblematic of civic life and society: the local court. The film follows seven stories, seven people in search of identity, seven destinies which overlap in a court of law over the course of one day. It’s a tale set apart by its unity of time and place, and one major artistic constraint: the need to link 20 sequence shots together which will then bring the story to life.

The directors’ approach is the result of a rather particular productive context, given that the movie is one of a number of projects to have won support from the “lightweight productions” programme launched by the Film Centre several years ago, in the form of a limited financial subsidy characterised by certain time constraints but also great artistic freedom, since projects are selected on the basis of their film treatments without being subjected to broadcasting requirements. The most memorable projects to have been released so far under this umbrella include Madly in Life [+lee también:
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by Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, which scooped 7 trophies during the most recent Magritte Film Awards, including one for Best Film, Mother Schmuckers [+lee también:
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entrevista: Harpo y Lenny Guit
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by Lenny and Harpo Guit, which was selected for Sundance, and Aya [+lee también:
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by Simon Gillard Coulibaly, which was presented in Cannes’ ACID line-up.

Another feature setting these projects apart is that they often showcase essentially Belgian casts, mainly because they’re not dependent on market constraints, unlike international co-productions which “would be obliged” to include greater numbers of French actors, for example. Brilliant Belgian actor Laurent Capelluto is notably gracing Les pas perdus - recently seen in Nicolas Maury’s My Best Part [+lee también:
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, and Laura Wandel’s Playground [+lee también:
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, and soon to be toplining Pierre Salvadori’s new movie The Little Gang [+lee también:
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- alongside Véronique Dumont, a Belgian actress often seen treading the boards and who’s also acted under Nadir Moknèche, Pascal Rabaté and Philippe Blasband; Aurélien Caeyman, the acting revelation from season 2 of The Break; and Wim Willaert, a Flemish actor who’s a regular face in French-language films (he played the wonderful loser in Jan Bucquoy’s The Last Temptation of the Belgians [+lee también:
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back in January).

Les pas perdus is produced by Cassandre Warnauts and Jean-Yves Roubin on behalf of Frakas Productions, who have just released three feature films in quick succession: The Hive [+lee también:
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by Christophe Hermans, Sans soleil [+lee también:
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entrevista: Banu Akseki
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by Banu Akseki, and On the Edge [+lee también:
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by Giordano Gederlini. As well as support from the Wallonia Brussels Federation Film and Audiovisual Centre, the movie also enjoys backing from RTBF, Proximus, VOO, BeTV and Shelter Prod (with the support of Tax shelter.be and ING).

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