KRIS CUPPENS
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
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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
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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
W2
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
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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
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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
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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
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photo: Boumediene Belbachir
photo: Boumediene Belbachir
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
photo: Boumediene Belbachir
photo: Boumediene Belbachir
photo: Boumediene Belbachir
photo: Boumediene Belbachir
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
photo: Ellen Haesevoets
photo: Ellen Haesevoets
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 ).
Info
ALIAS WOLF (2024) photos Tobias Spierenburg
Z (2021) photos Caroline Branders
LIJKSCHOUWERS (2019) photos Finn Szumlas
SERIES
UNDERCOVER (2019) photos Jo Voets
THEATRE
MOOIE JAREN ( 2023) photos Boumediene Belbachir
HITLER IS DEAD, I repeat (2021) photos Boumediene Belbachir
GEEL HESJE (2020-2023) photos Boumediene Belbachir
LIED (2020) photos Ellen Haesevoets
PORTRAIT
photos Nero Nolson (2024)
