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Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with cycling drama starring Niels Willaerts and Koen De Graeve.

Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Coureur, a Belgian drama that will have its international premiere in the Limelight section at Rotterdam.

Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with Coureur, which follows Felix, a Flemish cyclist who is willing to risk his lifeto win, and to please his demanding father. Mercken, a former cyclingchampion himself, also wrote the script with Monica Stan. Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier produce for Brussels-based Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Climax Films and Italy’s Kino Produzioni.

Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with cycling drama.

Screen can exclusively reveal the trailer for Coureur, a Belgian drama that will have its international premiere in the Limelight section at Rotterdam.

Kenneth Mercken makes his feature directorial debut with Coureur, which follows Felix, a Flemish cyclist who is willing to risk his lifeto win, and to please his demanding father. Mercken, a former cyclingchampion himself, also wrote the script with Monica Stan. Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier produce for Brussels-based Czar Film & TV. Co-producers are Belgium’s Climax Films and Italy’s Kino Produzioni.

The cast includes Niels Willaerts,...

This morning the Toronto Film Festival announced its slate of 12 films that will be competing in this year’s Platform section. Included in the directors-focused competition is Fien Troch’s fourth feature film, “Home.”

The drama portrays the struggle between two generations: teenagers who explore a thin line between trust, friendship, and loyalty, and adults who seem alienated from their past younger selves. Both find it difficult to communicate and understand each other’s closed-off worlds, making their clash more brutal than expected. The story centers mostly around 17-year-old Kevin who starts an apprenticeship at his aunt’s store and moves in with her and her family. After meeting his cousin Sammy’s friend John, he discovers that John lives an unbearable situation with his mother and feels the urge to help out his new friend.

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“Home” features...

Toronto International Film Festival continues to add to its already eclectic slate by announcing their Platform line-up today. Beginning last year as a special program to highlight auteur-driven features from around the world, this year’s line-up looks remarkably strong, opening with Bertrand Bonello‘s Paris-set terrorism drama Nocturama.

Also featuring new films from Fien Troch, Zacharias Kunuk, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ivan Sen, Katell Quillévéré, Khyentse Norbu, Pablo Larraín, William Oldroyd, Mijke de Jong, Barry Jenkins, Mathieu Denis, and Simon Lavoie, check out the line-up below.

Daguerrotype (Le Secret de la chambre noire) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, France/Japan/Belgium

World Premiere

Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes his first film outside Japan with this French-language ghost romance fantasy, about an aging photographer whose obsession with an archaic technique draws his young assistant and beautiful daughter into a dark and mysterious world. Starring Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet, and Mathieu Amalric. ***

Goldstone Ivan Sen, Australia...