Wrong Men production

On Friday 13 July, at the Cinergie summer session, we will play host to the young production company, Wrong Men. Support for young filmmakers to develop and produce ambitious and remarkable films is encoded in the DNA of this production unit managed by Benoit Roland and Guillaume Schuermans.

They are behind atypical feature films such as Antoine Cuypers’ Préjudice, Valery Rosier’s Parasol, Nabil Ben Yadir’s Dode Hoek, Guerin van de Vorst’s La Part sauvage; geopolitical documentaries (Wrong Elements by Jonathan Littell, Inkotanyi by Christophe Cotteret) and creative docs (Les Années Claires by Frédéric Guillaume, Ma voix t’accompagnera by Bruno Tracq). They also develop TV series.

The short films that we’ll be discovering could be described as strange, fantastical or political.

Flagey, Cinematek, Cinergie

Osez la macédoine (Guérin Van de Vorst)
with Ingrid Heidersheidt, Ciprian Pantazi, Cathy Grosjean
BE – 2014 – 17’
Osez la macedoine portrays the unlikely encounter between Dany, a disturbed pickpocket and Cristian, an illegal immigrant. It’s a story about a screaming baby, stolen handbags, and trains that destroy everything in their path.

Sparta (Noëmie Nicolas)
with Valentine Cadic, Sandrine Blancke, Elliot Daurat
FR, BE – 2016 – 26’
A teenage girl, her younger brother and their mother cross a hostile region on foot, looking to escape across the sea. The children seem to cope despite the hardships and the gangs of looters, but their exhausted mother starts to lose her grip. When her behaviour becomes a threat to their survival, her teenage daughter has to make a decision.

Little Hands (Rémi Allier)
with Emile Moulron Lejeune, Jan Hammenecker, Sandrine Blancke
BE – 2017- 15’
Leo is the two-year-old son of a factory manager. When the employees find out that the factory is set to close, Bruno, a brutish worker, kidnaps Leo to use him as a bargaining tool. We witness this desperate attempt to save the factory through the eyes of the child.

Eastpak (Jean-Benoit Ugeux)
with Bilal Aya, Laurent Caron, Claude Schmitz
BE - 2017 – 15’
Fouad, a young Arab, is at dinner in Brussels with a group of thirty-somethings. All goes well until they realise that a backpack has disappeared.