For its first session of 2025, screen.brussels is investing in 10 projects for a total sum of 999.000€, amongst which are the new films by Micha Wald and Olivier Pairoux.

The first (the director of In The Arms of My Enemy [+leggi anche:
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As for Olivier Pairoux (SpaceBoy [+leggi anche:
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screen.brussels is also supporting the new project by prolific Brussels animation studio nWave (The Inseparables [+leggi anche:
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The fourth supported feature film is The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands by Costa Rican and Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, noted for her excellent debut feature Clara Sola [+leggi anche:
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Finally, this new session has given out an aid to a documentary project (Ne jamais gaspiller une bonne crise by Sergio Ghizzardi) and five series (the fiction series Alma, directed by Julien Henry and Gary Seghers, the documentary series Mag ik (ik) zijn? by Frederike Migom and three animated series).