Portfolio

photo: Nero Nolson

SHOWREEL

FILM

ALIAS WOLF (long 2024)

DIRECTOR

Oscar & Tobias Spierenburg

PRODUCTION

Picoux Films

Synopsis

‘Alias Wolf’, a mysterious whodunit, is set in the fascinating world of writers. The story revolves around the pseudonym Wolf Jacobs of a small-time writer who engages in a titanic battle with a powerful corporation trying to thwart his new book.

Role the author Robbe Hendrickx

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfQ1-sgzV1I

LA VIERGE A L'ENFANT (long 2023)

DIRECTOR

Benivsa Berivan

PRODUCTION

Playtime Films

Synopsis

Avesta, a young Kurdish Yezidi, has just escaped the hell of Daech and arrives in Brussels with only one thing on her mind: taking revenge on the man who enslaved her. Between her frantic search for justice, which confronts her with the suffering she has endured, and her obligation to become the mother of an unwanted child, Avesta tries, at all costs, to make her voice heard.

Role Examining magistrate

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSIQwXP522o

My Heart Backwards (short 2023)

DIRECTOR

Sarah Gouret

PRODUCTION

Velvet Films

Synopsis

Anastasia, 27 years old, decides to provoke a meeting with Jef, 54 years old. Together, they will experience the suspended and intense moment that only the first meeting between a father and his unknown daughter can provoke.

Role Jef Vancleynenbreugel, the father

Z (short 2021)

DIRECTOR

Caroline Branders

PRODUCTION

Ciné Cri De Coeur

Synopsis

In this dystopian drama, Marc and Stella take care of four disabled people inside the safe walls of a dilapidated building. They try to survive while a deadly threat lurks outside. When rations run out, choices and sacrifices need to be made. But do these lambs let themselves be led to the slaughter so easily?

Role Marc Dirickx

WTC A LOVE STORY (docu 2020)

DIRECTOR

Lietje Bauwens & Wouter de Raeve

PRODUCTION

Production Company

Synopsis

In the 1970s, the populous neighbourhood around Brussels-North Station was destroyed to make room for 'Little Manhattan', a modernist dream with the two World Trade Centre towers as its crown jewels. The project failed, leaving the towers and surrounding area largely abandoned. In 2017, the private owners and politicians joined forces to redynamise the area. Fearing that history might repeat itself, Lietje Bauwens and Wouter De Raeve decided to enter the debate by making a film with the actors that claim a voice in the transition: politicians, an activist, the private owner, designers and others. Taking the WTC towers as its object, the film investigates contemporary urban redevelopment processes, and traces the influx of new ecological and participatory ideas and their actual impact. WTC A Love Story uses fiction as a method to explore whose stories enter the stage when the process of political representation is accelerated

Role Werner Joris / Kris Cuppens

Trailer https://vimeo.com/453976368

ALL OF US (long 2019)

DIRECTOR

Willem Wallyn

PRODUCTION

Synopsis

ALL OF US is the tragicomic story of housewife Cathy, who has only a few months to live. She joins a self-help group of terminally ill patients run by therapist Els, who is herself in the midlife crisis. Cathy decides not to inform her family of her condition but has a plan. She wants her younger sister, after her death, to take over her role in her family, as both wife and mother. But her sister is not up for that.

Role Astroboy

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxeBp0cKCU

LIJKSCHOUWERS (short 2019)

DIRECTOR

Finn Szumlas

PRODUCTION

Goldman Film

Synopsis

In the week between a former model's suicide and her funeral, we witness the way in which the people around her apprehend the image of the woman's lifeless body - as seen from the physical vantage point of the deceased.

Role Michel de Wolf, the husband

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaccZnmTMhQ

SERIES

GRENSLANDERS (2019)

DIRECTOR

Erik de Bruyn

PRODUCTION

Column Film

Synopsis

A girl of African origin is found in the polders of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the border between Belgium and the Netherlands. Tara Dessel, a detective from Rotterdam, and Bert Dewulf a psychiatrist from Antwerp, must find out what happened to her. The innocent-looking Grensland and its people seem to be hiding more secrets and traditions than they suspect.

Role Arthur Dewilde

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePgBUDs5uqs

UNDERCOVER (SZ 1 2019)

DIRECTOR

Frank Devos & Eshref Reybrouck

PRODUCTION

De Mensen

Synopsis

The plot revolves around a story inspired by real-life events, where undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation in Limburg, a Flemish province bordering the Netherlands. The infiltration is executed by two agents, Bob Lemmens and Kim de Rooij, who are posing as a couple at the campground where the drug kingpin spends his weekends

Role Walter De Vos

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKitv4IIPJU

THEATRE

photo: Boumediene Belbachir

photo: Ellen Haesevoets

MOOIE JAREN (2023)

DIRECTOR

Christophe Aussems & Stijn Devillé

AUTHOR

Stijn Devillé & Els Theunis

PRODUCTION

Het nieuwstedelijk

Synopsis

With the theatre play Mooie Jaren, Het nieuwstedelijk makes a chronicle of our times, in big and small stories. Against the background of mine closure and moon landing, of free love and oil crisis, of car-free and black Sundays, the fall of the wall and the fall of the banks, we follow a generation of friends in a small town. They discover life, love and a world that is constantly changing.

Danielle is a young medical student. Her encounter with charismatic professor Julia Sporken will change the course of her life. Miner Luc, Luckieluc to friends, decides to study after his forced retirement at 38. Young doctoral student Stella is found to have multiple sclerosis. Yassine sees his dream of becoming a professional footballer shattered after an accident. All are searching for the resilience that will drive them forward again.

Role Luckieluc

Info

https://www.nieuwstedelijk.be/project/mooie-jaren

HITLER IS DEAD, I repeat (2021)

DIRECTOR & AUTHOR

Stijn Devillé

PRODUCTION

Het nieuwstedelijk

Synopsis

Hitler is dead. His main seconds Goebbels and Himmler have taken their lives. Soon Goering and Speer fall into the hands of the Western allies. The Axis of Evil has been vanquished, the world lies in ruins. A clean-up must begin, and culprits must be punished.
Against the backdrop of a city in ruins, four young, allied collaborators attempt to develop morals for the future. Meanwhile, tensions and disagreements arise between the defendants themselves. For one person's survival strategy means the death sentence for another. Hitler is dead. But the bitter legacy he leaves behind is enormous. (Awarded the Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs in 2009.)

Role Albert Speer

Info

https://www.nieuwstedelijk.be/project/hitler-is-dead-i-repeat-adolf-hitler-is-dead

GEEL HESJE (2020)

DIRECTOR

Stijn Devillé

AUTHOR

Stijn Devillé

PRODUCTION

Het nieuwstedelijk

Synopsis

On Friday evening, 11 January, a trucker passes a ‘Yellow vests’ blockade in Liège. The man is tired, he wants to go home. One ‘yellow vest’ wants to make the truck stop. The movement must be growing. Surely such a trucker must understand that. It is for them that we fight. He uses the truck's bumper as a stepping stone to see through the windscreen. Eye to eye. The man behind the wheel, could be himself. The windscreen as a mirror. A moment of hesitation and recognition. It is for you that we fight, he shouts. With a monkey wrench, he bangs on the truck's windscreen. The driver is startled and pulls up. And drags the ‘yellow vest’ under his wheels. The anger turns to fear. This tragic incident is the starting point for Stijn Devillé's performance on this new and ambiguous phenomenon of resistance and social struggle.

Role Ripper

Info

https://www.nieuwstedelijk.be/project/geel-hesje

LIED (2020)

AUTHOR

Kris Cuppens

DIRECTORS

Stijn Devillé & Adriaan Vanaken

PRODUCTION

Het nieuwstedelijk

Synopsis

Lied is road movie and family drama in one.

A man is with his family somewhere in the South. But then something snaps. He gathers everything together and leaves. Through the night. The road through the landscape becomes a ride along his memories. Fragments. Flashes. Of how it was. Or of how he wished it was. When he gets home, he carries a child on his arm. Someone dies.

Just as Kris draws on his personal journey, Geert Waegeman traces a path through his own musical history for this performance. Text and music together thus form an extraordinary song.

(Lied was awarded the Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs in 2006, in the same year Kris Cuppens was nominated for the Flemish Culture Prize for the Performing Arts with Lied ).