Events
MASTERCLASS
DENIS COTE
Palace – 30/06 – 3.30pm
Denis Côté (1973) (New Brunswick, Canada) founded nihilproductions in the nineties and shoots fifteen short films. He was a journalist and movie critic before making his first feature film Les états nordiques in 2005. In 2007 his second feature Nos vies privées makes the festival circuit. Carcasses (2009) is presented at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes while Curling, his fifth feature wins honors at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010. Vic+Flo on vu un ours (2013) wins a Silver Bear at Berlin for its innovation. Denis Côté’s uncommon and original films have been screened at over 400 film events as well as having been featured in over twenty retrospectives around the world.
Info : romane@bsff.be
AN ENCOUNTER WITH
CLAUDIA CARDINALE
Once Upon A Time In The West – Bozar – 22/06 – 7pm
The Leopard – Vendôme - 21/06 – 7.30pm
Once Upon A Time In The West – Bozar – 22/06 – 7pm
- Discussion before the movie -
"When I was working with Fellini, there was no script, just improvisation. Nothing to do with Sergio Leone's method. With Sergio, there was a script and we had to stick to it. Everything was very specific. With Luchino Visconti, it was different, like theatre."
Guest of honor at the BRIFF, the Signora Cardinale accepted to answer questions from the public during a meeting which already promises an encounter filled with charm and shared emotions.
Film Ticket / Pass for the festival
With the support of
The Leopoard – Vendôme - 21/06 – 7.30pm
- In the presence of Claudia Cardinale -
1860 in Sicily. The aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly democratic fervour. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina tries to hold on to the past, but it appears that his glory days are waning. As the revolt gathers steam and begins to affect a real change, the aging prince must come to terms with the new world that surrounds him.
Ticket available on site at the Vendôme ticket office / Pass for the festival
AN ENCOUNTER WITH
RANDAL KLEISER
Grease - Bozar – 23/06 – 7pm
Randal Kleiser, director of Grease, certainly, but also president of the academic committee of the Directors Guild of America, is one of the prestigious guests of this first edition. We welcome him to properly celebrate the 40th anniversary of his mythical musical, which has still not aged, but also to explain how he blew up the kid and shrunk the audience (you are warned!) and invented the Vistarama HD process.
SYNOPSIS
Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance ?
MASTERCLASS
PHILIPPE VAN LEEUW
Palace – 27/06 – 7pm
Free inscription
Philippe Van Leeuw is a Belgian cinematographer and writer/director. He studied at INSAS and then at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He worked on Bruno Dumont’s La Vie de Jésus, then, among
other projects, Laurent Achard’s first two feature films and Claire Simon’s Les Bureaux de Dieu. Recently he worked on two Lebanese films including Mahmoud Hojeij’s Stable/Unstable. He is a member of AFC.
His first film, Le Jour où Dieu est partie en voyage, came out in 2009. He has won awards at numerous interntional festivals such as San Sebastian and Thessalonique. InSyriated (Une Famille Syrienne) is his
second feature film. The film won the Audience Award at Berlin in 2017 and many other awards since. In 2014 he was a member of the Golden Camera Jury at Cannes.
Free inscription
Info : romane@bsff.be
MASTERCLASS
TERRY GILLIAM
Flagey – 21/06 – 3pm
Professionals only
American born, Terry Gilliam started his career as an animation artist. He goes to France where he was a contributor to Pilote magazine, then crosses the channel to join the legendary Monty Python’s Flying Circus “for something completely different.”… He was the creator of Python’s graphic identity, which later inspired Desperate Housewives and South Park. A director with a boundless imagination, the father of the Baron Münchhausen is also the creator of Brazil, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Info : romane@bsff.be
BOZAR, UGC BELGIUM,
SCREEN.BRUSSELS
AND POOLPIO PRESENT
EXPERIENCE
The third edition of the Virtual Reality Festival in Belgium.
This year EXPERIENCE takes place during the BRIFF from 21 to 25 June at UGC De Brouckère and new this year, at BOZAR.
On the program as headliner and first European broadcast, the latest production from the Innerspace studio: "The unfinished", an interactive musical experience with the participation of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
The producer and the director will be present on Thursday June 21 during the opening of the festival.
A documentary film "The Sun Ladies" on the Yezidis (Kurdish female fighters). "The real thing" a documentary that explores three "urban simulacres" located in the outskirts of Shanghai, inspired by Paris, Venice and London.
Sessions are booked in 1h increments from 12h to 21h.
Reservation:
More information:
vrexperiencebxl@gmail.com
or www.facebook.com/experiencebxl