Vendredi 27 janvier, 20h30 (séance au Comoedia)

Viva paradis
Isabelle Tollenaere
(Belgique, 2011, 17’25, HD, diffusé en Blu-Ray)

La Tunisie, peu après la révolution. Un moment d'arrêt, improbable, passé en plans séquences dans un hôtel de luxe. Ici les professionnels du tourisme tentent de continuer, comme si de rien n'était, mais les secousses de la révolution sont encore sensibles. Comment continuer?

Tunisia, shortly after the revolution. Everything seems to stand still in a series of long takes in a luxurious hotel. The tourism professionals act as if nothing has happened, despite the traces of the recent revolution. How to proceed?


Autoproduction
Distribution : Courtisane Festival

Réalisation | Direction : Isabelle Tollenaere
Image | Photography : Isabelle Tollenaere
Son | Sound : Kwinten Van Laethem
Montage | Editing : Isabelle Tollenaere
Mixage | Mixing : Kwinten Van Laethem

Bio :
Isabelle Tollenaere (born in Ghent, 1984) lives and works in Antwerp. She studied documentary filmmaking at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Her graduation film Stil leven/ Still Life (2007) was the winner of the Belgian competition at the Courtisane Festival in 2008, where she won again in 2010  with Trickland, her first film after graduating. Her work has been shown at international film festivals such as FID Marseille, Kasseler Dokfest, Brussels Short Film Festival, Underdox, Zinebi, Documentary & short film festival Bilbao, Media Wave Festival...  Isabelle has also worked as a production assistant for Auguste Orts, a Brussels-based artist collective formed by Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer and Anouk de Clercq.

Filmographie | Filmography :
Stil Leven (2007)
Trickland (2010)