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Best Photography Award for The Land of the Enlightened at Sundance In addition to Belgica, Pieter-Jan De Pue's film debut The Land of the Enlightened also won prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. The film that had its world premiere there won the Prize for Best Photography.

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Two prizes for Black at Ramdam festival Black, the second feature by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, won the Award for Best Film of the Year and the award for Most Disturbing Film of the Year tonight. This happened on the closing evening of the sixth edition of the Ramdam festival in Tournai.

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D'Ardennen in the running for the Audience Award in Glasgow Robin Pront's feature debut D'Ardennen is one of the 10 features that have a chance to win the Audience Award of the Glasgow Film Festival. The special program consists of a selection of first and second films by promising young film talent.

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Café Derby and Paradise Trips in Competition at the Aubagne International Film Festival Café Derby by Lenny Van Wesemael and Raf Reyntjens' Paradise Trips, two Flemish debut films, have been selected for the Feature Film Competition of the Aubagne International Film Festival (March 14-19) in France.

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Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert and Sebastien Dewaele in Gilles Coulier's Flemish feature debut Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert and Sebastien Dewaele are the first names known for Cargo, the feature debut of Bevergem director Gilles Coulier. The actors portray three brothers who try to save their family fishing business from destruction.

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Black and D'Ardennen to Goteborg Black, the second feature by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and Robin Pront's feature debut D'Ardennen have both been invited to the Gothenburg Film Festival (29 January - 8 February) in Sweden.

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Kinepolis takes over French cinema The Belgian cinema group Kinepolis lands in Normandy by taking over the operation of a former UGC cinema. Kinepolis already has nine other cinema complexes elsewhere in France.

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Le tout nouveau testament leads the way in Magritte du Cinéma nominations Jaco Van Dormael's Le Tout Nouveau Testament, co-produced with Flanders, is the big favorite for Les Magritte du Cinéma, the French-language film awards in our country, with 10 nominations this year.

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Bevergem invited to the television part of the Rotterdam Film Festival The Canvas series Bevergem has been invited to Episodic/Epidemic, a new section of the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR, January 27-February 7) that focuses on the overlap between film and television.

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Strong start for new fiction series Coppers The new Flemish television series Coppers, which started on VTM on Monday 4 January, immediately got off to a strong start. The first episode of the crime series, based on the books by Toni Coppers, achieved a market share of 30%.

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Netflix now available worldwide Streaming service Netflix has just launched in 130 new countries. This means that the American media company is active all over the world, except in China, North Korea and Syria. Netflix has 1.3 million subscribers in the Netherlands.

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Amigos and My Jihad selected for FIPA The new Flemish fiction series Amigos, about five ex-convicts who open a restaurant, has been selected for the Official Competition of the Festival International de Programs Audiovisuels (FIPA), the Biarritz television festival.

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