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The programme of the 74th Venice Film Festival was unveiled this Thursday featuring several Belgian productions and co-productions.

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s much-awaited third feature film, Let the corpses tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres), will be shown in the prestigious setting of the Piazza Grande, while Kapitalistis by Pablo Munoz Gomez has been nominated in the Pardi di domani section dedicated to short films.

The school film Paul is Here by Valentina Maurel will be part of the selection of the Cinéfondation for the 70th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 17 to 28.

The Belgian documentary is part of the selection of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. 

A Belgian documentary will be presented during the 39th edition of Cinéma du Réel in Paris.

At the Award Ceremony of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, InSyriated by Philippe Van Leeuw won the coveted Audience Award of the Panorama. All Berlinale visitors can vote for the Panorama Audience Award by filling in a vote sheet. The prize was started in 1999.

During the closing ceremony of Sundance Film Festival, hold on Sunday January 29th, Belgian cinematographer Manu Dacosse won the Jury Prize for Best Cinematography (section World Cinema) for the film Axolotl overkill directed by German director Helene Hegemann.

Three films from French-speaking Belgium will be presented during the 67th edition of the Berlinale, to be held from 9 to 19 February 2017.

Several films of Wallonie-Bruxelles selected for Rotterdam.
No fewer than five fiction films and documentaries will be presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. 

A retrospective about Belgian documentary filmmaker and poet Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd will take place at the 19th edition of the Montreal International Documentary Festival. 

A wedding, Stephan Streker’s new film, will have its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, being held this year from the 8th to the 18th of September. The director’s third feature film will be shown in the “Discovery” section whose program was revealed on the 23rd of August. The film will also be showing end of August at the Festival du Film francophone d’Angoulême.

L’immense retour (romance), directed by Manon Coubia, has been selected for the 69th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which takes place from 3 to 13 August 2016.

During the closing ceremony of the Annecy Animation Festival held on the 18th of June, Back to School by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier won the Jury Award for a TV special.