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The temporary aid scheme aims to benefit indigenous features when cinemas reopen.

The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf) has unveiled a temporary aid scheme, which aims to support the distribution of local productions after the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted.

The €325,000 fund is aimed at non-subsidised distributors and will focus on indigenous feature films that went into production after June 30, 2019 and received Vaf support.

The goal is to increase the visibility of these local films in a market that is expected to be highly competitive when cinemas reopen, and an emphasis will be placed on innovative marketing campaigns.

A further objective will...

Documentaries and dramas impressed industry professionals at the Ghent event.

Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.

Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.

The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”

Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.

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Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent showcased documentary films for the first time, some of which impressed industry professionals even more than the usual fiction projects.

Pieter Jan De Pue’s Four Brothers, about four Ukrainian siblings torn apart by war, won the work-in-progress award.

The international jury praised how “the story ambitions and scope of the project leaves an undeniable impression…how war can tear apart even the tightest of bonds.”

Bart Van Langendonck of leading Belgian production company Savage Film produces. The project previously won the Cph:Dox Eurimges Co-Production Award.

Another doc, Janet van den Brand...

Details of new film and TV sales arm, Dfw International, also revealed.

Benelux-based Dutch FilmWorks has picked up Barry Levinson’s Harry Haft and Liam Neeson thriller The Ice Road for release in the territory, following deals in Toronto.

Boxing biopic Harry Haft stars Ben Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Danny De Vito, and is handled by Endeavor Content. The Ice Road was sold through Lisa Wilson’s Solution Entertainment.

Willem Pruijssers, CEO of Dutch FilmWorks, also revealed further details of its new film and TV sales arm, Dfw International, which will attend its first market, Mipcom, next month.

The...

Conference speakers to include Rikke Ennis, Philip Knatchbull and Walter Iuzzolino.

The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).

The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.

CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...