**RSVP MANDATORY**
On Tuesday, December 19, 2023, Jérôme Vandewattyne's film "The Belgian Wave" will be screened at the Italian Institute of Culture in Montreal.
This film is part of the cycle ‘Interrail’, a journey into contemporary European cinema, organized by cluster EUNIC of Montreal (European National Institutes of Culture), bringing together the Wallonia-Brussels General Delegation in Quebec, the Goethe Institut in Montreal, the Italian Institute of Culture in Montreal, the Consulate of France in Montreal and the Consulate General of Austria in Montreal.
Synopsis
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. When they discover the video diary of Marc, a journalist who disappeared at the time of the UFO phenomena, Karen and Elzo come across a cult full of crucial information on the journalist’s disappearance.
The Belgian Wave by Jérôme Vandewattyne
Belgium 2023, 90 minutes
With : Dominique Rongvaux, Karim Barras, Karen De Paduwa
Original version with English subtitles
Practical information
Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 6:30 pm
Italian Institute of Culture in Montreal
1200, Dr. Penfield Avenue
Free admission - **RSVP MANDATORY**
Biography
Born in 1989, Jérôme Vandewattyne spent his childhood and adolescence (and his post-adolescence, for that matter) devouring as many films as possible. Already, during his schooling at the Institut de la Providence in Wavre, he clandestinely made numerous gory short films in the empty corridors of the Catholic school with his faithful classmates. After his humanities, he founded the music group VHS From Space and then began studying communication at the ISFSC, with a final thesis: She's a Slut, a fake horror trailer for the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF). In 2012, the BIFFF gave him carte blanche to make a short film, the stroboscopic Slutterball. The doors of television then opened to him and allowed him to produce two full seasons for the teen web series “What The Fake?! RTBF” in parallel with Be tv for which he edits a large number of cinema trailers. At the age of 25, he climbed into the van of the Experimental Tropic Blues Band to follow them on tour for more than two years. This experience will give birth to his first feature film: Spit’n’Split.
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