KRIS CUPPENS
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photo: Rudy Lamboray
SHOWREEL
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NOS BATAILLES (long 2018)
DIRECTOR
Guillaume Senez
PRODUCTION
Les Films Pelléas
Synopsis
Within the company he works for, Olivier defends the rights of his colleagues. After the sudden departure of his wife Laura, he unexpectedly needs to combine his demanding job with the education of his children and family life in general. Faced with his new responsibilities, he struggles to find a new balance. Laura never returns.
Role Jan, trade unionist
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RESURRECTION (short 2017)
DIRECTOR
Kristof Hoornaert
PRODUCTION
Fobic films
Synopsis
An old hermit who has been living secluded from civilization for years, finds a half-naked young man . Out of pity, he takes him into his house. The young man refuses to speak, yet a bond develops between them. When the police come to investigate, it becomes clear that the young man has killed someone. The old hermit finds faces a heartbreaking choice over what he will do with the killer in his house.
Role Police inspector
Trailer
EMPIRE (short 2015)
DIRECTOR
Kristof Hoornaert
PRODUCTION
Sireal Films
Synopsis
A portrait of a contemporary middle class family in a real-time plan-sequence shot. A seemingly mundane life culminates in a dramatic finale.
Role Husband
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmQKcsA74jI
BEAU SEJOUR (2017)
DIRECTORS
Nathalie Basteyns and Kaat Beels
PRODUCTION
VRT / De Mensen
Synopsis
Kato wakes up covered in blood and with no memories in the hotel Beau Séjour next to her own corpse. She must try to solve her own murder case. Although she is dead, she is just walking around, but no one sees or hears her. Gradually, she discovers that there is a handful of people who do see and hear her. Some she knows and some she doesn't. She doesn't know why just these people can see her. She tries to reconstruct what happened on the night of her death.
Role Luc Hoeven, father of Kato
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SPITSBROERS 1 (2015)
DIRECTORS
Gijs Polspoel and Jeroen Dumoulein
PRODUCTION
VTM / De Mensen
Synopsis
In the arena of Belgian football, the Moerman brothers dream aloud of a career as professional footballers. One of them breaks through, the other is left empty-handed. Both must make choices, deal with success and failure, pay prizes and grow up.
Role Leo Moerman, the father
Trailer https://vimeo.com/163522284
SPITSBROERS 2 (2017)
DIRECTOR
Gijs Polspoel
PRODUCTION
VTM / De Mensen
SYNOPSIS
When his brother Alan has just been released from prison and is trying to get his life back on track, Dennis Moerman is making great strides as a footballer with KRC Genk.
Role Leo Moerman, the father
Trailer
DE 16 (2016)
DIRECTOR
Willem Wallyn
PRODUCTION
VRT / Luna / GRD
SYNOPSIS
A fiction series about the power games in the Wetstraat and the wings of Belgium's top politics. Combining drama with comedy, the series gives viewers a unique insight into the comings and goings of the cabinet of a deputy prime minister who wants to conquer Wetstraat 16 at all costs.
Role Hendrik Coninckx
Trailer https://vimeo.com/179635581
photo: Boumediene Belbachir
THEATRE
ODYSSEUS. EEN ZWERVER KOMT THUIS. (2016)
DIRECTOR
Michael Decock
AUTHOR
Homeros - Patrick Lateur
PRODUCTION
KVS
SYNOPSIS
The story of a drifter on the loose, seeking the all-too-long way home after a war. Women, islands, sea and the interference of an intrusive god impede his path. At home, the ultimate fight to become a father, prince and husband again awaits him.
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ZWISSCHEN (2016)
DIRECTOR
Suze Millius
AUTHOR
Cuppens - Adriaan Van Aken
PRODUCTION
Het nieuwstedelijk
SYNOPSIS
With Zwischen, director Suze Milius creates a family portrait about and with three generations of the Cuppens family.
Kris (53) has a son. His name is Jef. He is twelve years old. And a nineteen-year-old daughter, Jacoba. His father Jaak (77) is well heading into his eighties. About being in the middle of life. And in between generations.
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ADEM (2011)
DIRECTORS
Adriaan Van Aken and Stijn Devillé
AUTHOR
Kris Cuppens
PRODUCTION
Braakland / ZheBilding
SYNOPSIS
A man is approaching 50. He has a wife. Three children. And a life. Which is going its way. Although the weather could easily be a bit better. Now that it's finally summer. And his head. Is acting strange. He sees things. Images he has already seen - they really exist - but what are they doing in his head? Omayra Sanchez's drowning death, Semira Adamu's suffocation, the drama at the Duisburg Love Parade, ... A doctor's visit offers the answer. A brain tumour. Pressing on his eyes. Making him a little blinder every day. But at the same time makes him see more and more. ADEM is a family story. About the last fight of a fifty-year-old. A fight against death. A story about life here on earth. That is propelled by voices and music into the Heights.
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photo: Freek Verdonck
photo: Freek Verdonck
LIED (2020)
AUTEUR
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 ).
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BILZEN MYSTERIES (2016) photos Jo Exelmans
THE EXCPTION (2015) stills
THEATRE
ZWISCHEN (2016) photos Katrijn Van Giel
LIED (2006) photos Freek Verdonck
PORTRAIT
photos Kris Van Eksel (2018)
photos Saskia Vanderstichele (2017)
photos Saskia Vanderstichele (2013)
