Belgium’s Stenola Productions, behind Joachim Lafosse’s 2022 Cannes Competition player “The Restless” and this year’s San Sebastian’s Golden Shell contender “A Silence,” has boarded “Elena,” written by Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”) and a potential highlight at this month’s Ventana Sur Proyecta forum.
Stenola, which looks set to handle part of post-production, joins Norwegian lead producer Staer, founded by Elisa Fernanda Pirir, and Lithuania’s Just a Moment on a film which marks the anticipated feature debut of Dalia Huerta Cano, whose “Flesh That Remembers” won best doc short at Mexico’s Morelia Film Festival and Df Docs.
Producers Ragna Midtgard and Pirir and director Dalia Huerta will attend Ventana Sur, a joint venture of Cannes Marché du Film, the Cannes Festival and Argentine film-tv agency Incaa, to court a sales agent and Latin American partners in Mexico and Guatemala to develop the screenplay.
Stenola, which looks set to handle part of post-production, joins Norwegian lead producer Staer, founded by Elisa Fernanda Pirir, and Lithuania’s Just a Moment on a film which marks the anticipated feature debut of Dalia Huerta Cano, whose “Flesh That Remembers” won best doc short at Mexico’s Morelia Film Festival and Df Docs.
Producers Ragna Midtgard and Pirir and director Dalia Huerta will attend Ventana Sur, a joint venture of Cannes Marché du Film, the Cannes Festival and Argentine film-tv agency Incaa, to court a sales agent and Latin American partners in Mexico and Guatemala to develop the screenplay.
- 11/17/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse is done being silent.
Just like the family in his latest film “A Silence,” inspired by the real-life case of Victor Hissel: a former lawyer for two victims of killer Marc Dutroux, ultimately charged with possession of child pornography.
“To me, it’s not a dark story, because they do start to talk,” he says about the characters played by Emmanuelle Devos and newcomer Matthieu Galoux, slowly digging up the long-buried sins of their husband and father (Daniel Auteuil).
“Astrid and her children decide to step out of that criminal environment. With this film, I want to show how people can be violated by something like that, how difficult it is to shake off that shame and guilt. It’s difficult, but I think it’s possible.”
He also had to learn how to speak up, he says.
“In 2008, I made ‘Private Lessons.’ I didn’t say that at the time,...
Just like the family in his latest film “A Silence,” inspired by the real-life case of Victor Hissel: a former lawyer for two victims of killer Marc Dutroux, ultimately charged with possession of child pornography.
“To me, it’s not a dark story, because they do start to talk,” he says about the characters played by Emmanuelle Devos and newcomer Matthieu Galoux, slowly digging up the long-buried sins of their husband and father (Daniel Auteuil).
“Astrid and her children decide to step out of that criminal environment. With this film, I want to show how people can be violated by something like that, how difficult it is to shake off that shame and guilt. It’s difficult, but I think it’s possible.”
He also had to learn how to speak up, he says.
“In 2008, I made ‘Private Lessons.’ I didn’t say that at the time,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Seven filmmakers will benefit from one of the most generous grants in the documentary field, as the North Points Institute today announced the recipients of the inaugural Diane Weyermann Fellowships.
The fellowship, named for the late Participant executive and producer who championed the careers of many leading documentary filmmakers and their work, will provide $100,000 and 18 months of mentorship to each of three nonfiction projects and their filmmaking teams.
“The three supported projects were chosen out of 401 submissions from 70 countries, through a 6-month selection process that included the Points North curatorial team and a jury of veteran filmmakers and programmers,” according to a release. “The projects include: The Last Nomads, directed and produced by Biljana Tutorov, co-directed by Petar Glomazić, and co-produced by Quentin Laurent, Rok Bicek and Eva Kuperman. The film is a co-production of Serbia, Montenegro, France, Slovenia, Belgium, and Croatia; The Production of the World, a co-production of Canada and USA,...
The fellowship, named for the late Participant executive and producer who championed the careers of many leading documentary filmmakers and their work, will provide $100,000 and 18 months of mentorship to each of three nonfiction projects and their filmmaking teams.
“The three supported projects were chosen out of 401 submissions from 70 countries, through a 6-month selection process that included the Points North curatorial team and a jury of veteran filmmakers and programmers,” according to a release. “The projects include: The Last Nomads, directed and produced by Biljana Tutorov, co-directed by Petar Glomazić, and co-produced by Quentin Laurent, Rok Bicek and Eva Kuperman. The film is a co-production of Serbia, Montenegro, France, Slovenia, Belgium, and Croatia; The Production of the World, a co-production of Canada and USA,...
- 9/16/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Les Intranquilles
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse returns to familiar territory with a troubled couple in his ninth feature, Les Intranquilles (The Restless). Luxbox presold the film at this year’s online Marche du Film on the title produced by Anton Iffland Stettner and Eva Kuperman of Stenola Productions. Lafosse’s cast is led by Damien Bonnard (Les Miserables; Standing Vertical) and Lelia Bekhti (Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy) – both starlets replaced the originally attached duo of Matthias Schoenaerts and Jasmine Trinca. Lafosse penned the script alongside five other credited screenwriters and his usual Dp Jean-Francois Hensgens lensed the feature.…...
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse returns to familiar territory with a troubled couple in his ninth feature, Les Intranquilles (The Restless). Luxbox presold the film at this year’s online Marche du Film on the title produced by Anton Iffland Stettner and Eva Kuperman of Stenola Productions. Lafosse’s cast is led by Damien Bonnard (Les Miserables; Standing Vertical) and Lelia Bekhti (Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy) – both starlets replaced the originally attached duo of Matthias Schoenaerts and Jasmine Trinca. Lafosse penned the script alongside five other credited screenwriters and his usual Dp Jean-Francois Hensgens lensed the feature.…...
- 1/2/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Leila Bekhti and Damien Bonnard to star in drama exploring impact of bipolar disorder.
Paris-based sales company Luxbox will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse’s upcoming drama The Restless at the upcoming Marché du Film Online.
Leiïa Bekhti and Damien Bonnard are set to star as a couple, who share a child together, whose life together is impacted by bipolarism.
Bonnard, whose recent credits include Les Misérables and The French Dispatch, plays a man called Damien who is battling the high and lows of bipolar disorder.
Bekhti co-stars as his partner (Leila) who valiantly weathers the emotional rollercoaster of his changing moods,...
Paris-based sales company Luxbox will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse’s upcoming drama The Restless at the upcoming Marché du Film Online.
Leiïa Bekhti and Damien Bonnard are set to star as a couple, who share a child together, whose life together is impacted by bipolarism.
Bonnard, whose recent credits include Les Misérables and The French Dispatch, plays a man called Damien who is battling the high and lows of bipolar disorder.
Bekhti co-stars as his partner (Leila) who valiantly weathers the emotional rollercoaster of his changing moods,...
- 6/15/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
The Belgian filmmaker’s new film, provisionally intitled Les Intranquilles, will bring together Matthias Schoenaerts and Jasmine Trinca. There’s been a change of course for Belgian director Joachim Lafosse, whose previous four films have been produced by the Liège-based firm Versus Production and who will henceforth be working with the Brussels-based Stenola producers Anton Iffland Stettner and Eva Kuperman. We don’t know a lot about Intranquilles, other than the fact that it will bring together two incandescent actors, Matthias Schoenaerts and Jasmine Trinca. The Belgian actor, who’s rarely been seen in his homeland since the phenomenal success of Bullhead in 2011, will be getting back to filmmaking in French, just as we’ve learned that he’s set to work with Terence Malick once again, playing the apostle Peter in a film based upon the life of Jesus. Opposite him in Intranquilles,...
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