screen.brussels passes the milestone of 100 production companies supported
For its second session of 2025, screen.brussels selected eight projects that are particularly important for the Brussels film and audiovisual industry. Thanks to an investment of €1 million, the expected return to the Brussels-Capital Region economy, in terms of salaries and company order books, amounts to €8.993 million, representing a return of €9 for every €1 invested. The selected projects include three feature films (live action) and two animated feature films, two television series and one documentary. Find the description of the projects below.
Brussels, resolutely the capital of cinema
Of the eight projects selected, seven are being carried out by production companies based in Brussels (and one in Wallonia), while nearly half (four out of nine) of the directors are from Brussels: Kita Bauchet, Michaël Roskam, Romain Renard and Mathieu Mortelmans. All the selected projects will be filmed in Brussels – or will be partially produced there in the case of animation. It is also worth noting that this 27th session of screen.brussels marks the milestone of 100 different production companies having benefited from the support of the Brussels-Capital Region's investment fund since its creation in 2016.
Women behind the camera
Nearly half of the people involved in the production of these projects (4/9) are women: Kita Bauchet (Bande d'hystériques), Géraldine Nakache (Si tu penses bien), Diane Clavier (Anna et les enfants) and Eva Husson (Faussaires).
Anna et les enfants
Anna has a rare phobia... a phobia of children! It's not that she doesn't like children... it's just that she's afraid of them. Ever since her phobia was triggered, she's avoided children at all costs. When she runs into her ex-boyfriend again, all is well... until the day she realises that not only does he have two children, but that she's going to have to be alone with them for several days... and that living together is going to be as funny as it is moving...
Le Faux Soir
November 1943. The Independence Front, a Belgian resistance organisation, publishes a fake edition of the newspaper Le Soir mocking the German occupiers... Le Faux Soir is the first media hacking incident in history.
Si tu penses bien
When Gil meets Jacques in Dubai, their love is clear. However, their hasty marriage is proof that she is not as in touch with her faith as he is. Jacques reassures her that if she thinks right, only good will come of it. But who decides? Who gets to decide whether she thinks right or wrong? Gil is lost, she who used to believe more in man than in God. Every month, the religious rituals plunge her even further into an unbearable situation. Little by little, Gil regains her strenght and plans to save her family. But maybe that starts by saving herself...
Bottanix
Party for the Boisvert family! For grandma Greta's 100th birthday, Daphne (12) and Merlin (8) and their parents go to visit their grandma in the countryside for the first time in a long time. When they arrive, however, they come face to face with two thieves robbing lonely elderly people. That is not their only surprise. Merlin soon discovers magical creatures Bottanix, who not only live with Grandma Greta, but also look after her!
Melvile
Melvile is nestled in the steep valley of a centuries-old forest. Paul has spent his summer holidays here with his grandmother since he was a child. In the summer of his fifteenth birthday, a fire ravages the forest. Ruth, his first love, and Thomas, his best friend, were killed. Paul feels responsible for their disappearance and has turned his back on Melvile for twenty years. But the town, which is about to be swallowed up by the construction of a dam, forces him to return to sign the sale papers for his grandmother's house. This return is an opportunity for him to retrace the circumstances of his friends' deaths and to lift the veil on the secrets of a dark community...
Faussaires
During the installation of a major exhibition, the bust of Nefertiti is broken. Andréa, deputy director of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, has no choice but to opt for a very risky solution: call in the Gorgon, a genius forger who has been missing for years and is the only person to possess an illusionary copy of this piece. But for Andrea, the Gorgon isn't just a forger: she's also her little sister, Alba, exiled in Rome and who she hasn't spoken to in years...
Hunters
2015, at the heart of the action, a Belgian special unit based in Brussels relentlessly hunts down terrorists. Raid after raid, the men have no time to recover, pushing themselves to their physical and mental limits. While the team leader, Ludo, sinks into paranoia, a young psychologist, Emilie, tries to alert management to the devastating effects of post-traumatic stress within the team.
Bandes d'hystériques
Mirroring our post #Me Too era, the film tells the little-known story of the women's emancipation movements of the 1970s in Belgium. Through the impertinent actions of Dolle Mina in Flanders, the support for the Marie Mineur workers in Wallonia and the new film by Chantal Akerman, a 25-year-old from Brussels who was to revolutionise the cinema, our feminine heritage is sketched out with humour and insolence. The images of these battles and the encounters with the women who led them shed light on the road we still have to travel to achieve full gender equality in law and in practice.