Film
The Belgian Wave
Grotesk Spezial • Jérôme Vandewattyne • BE 2023 • 90min
frOF+enUT • DCP • Tyrol premier
29.02.2024, 21:45 Leokino Film introduction: Maurice Kumar, Nadja Studenik
»An artist must change up their brain structure!«
Karen, with the help of Elzo, investigates a wave of UFO sightings in Belgium between 1989 and 1992. The two protagonists embark on a psychedelic road trip in which exuberant witnesses of the time parade by.
When they discover the video diary of Marc, a journalist who disappeared at the time of the ufological phenomena, Karen and Elzo come across a sect that is full of crucial information about the journalist’s disappearance.
Director Jérôme Vandewattyne Writers Jérôme Di Egidio, Kamal Messaoudi, Jérôme Vandewattyne Cinematography Jean Francois Awad Edit Ayrton Heymans Music Yannick Franck Cast Karim Barras, Karen De Paduwa, Dominique Rongvaux Producers Alon Knoll, Rose Quenon, Gregory Zalcman
Born in 1989, Jérôme Vandewattyne spent his adolescence devouring a maximum of films. Already, during his schooling, he secretly made many gory short films in the catholic school. After directing SHE’S A SLUT, a fake horror trailer for the BIFFF, the festival gave him carte blanche in 2012 to direct a short film, the strobe Slutterball. Then he climbed into the van of the Experimental Tropic Blues Band to follow them on tour for more than two years to direct his first feature film: SPIT’N’SPLIT.
Time Table Grotesk Spezial – Do 29.02. – Leokino
18:00 • Schrecklich und lachhaft (talk)
19:45 • 2551.02 - The Orgy of the Damned (film)
21:45 • The Belgian Wave (film)
