In its last session of 2019, the screen.brussels fund has selected 8 co-production projects. Among the chosen works are 3 fiction features, 2 animated films, 2 TV series and one documentary, including the first full-length film by Emmanuel Marre, and Fabrice du Welz’ new work.

Zero Fucks Given [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], the first feature film by the young director Emmanuel Marre, paints the portrait of 26-year-old Cassandre, an air hostess working for a budget airline. She lives each day as it comes, flitting between flights and parties like there’s no tomorrow. For her Tinder pseudonym, she chooses the name Carpe Diem, fully identifying with her company’s motto: "The world won’t wait". Having won numerous prizes for his short films The Summer Movie and Castle to Castle, including the prestigious Jean Vigo Prize for the first, the director is taking the plunge into the world of feature films flanked by his producer Benoît Roland (Wrong Men), and in co-production with his usual partners at Kidam (France).

For his part, Fabrice du Welz - whose most recent film, Adoration [+leggi anche:
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Other selected projects include Lilith & De Gebroeders Schimm, a family film by Michael Van Ostade, produced by Minds Meet (Belgium) and Volya Films (Netherlands), as well as the two animated works, Titina [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Norway’s Kasja Naess, produced by Vivi Film (Belgium) and Mikrofilm (Norway), and Around the World in 80 Days by French director Samuel Tourneux, produced by Cottonwood Media (France) and Umedia (Belgium).