12/07/2019 - The Walloon investment fund will throw its weight behind the Belgian director’s first English-language effort, which is being staged by Versus Production

For its third session of 2019, Wallimage has chosen to support nine new projects: two series, three documentaries and four fiction features, including Nobody Has to Know [+see also:
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Nobody Has To Know tells the story of a forbidden love between a man (Lanners) and a woman (Gina McKee) in a small Presbyterian community in the north of Scotland. The movie will be co-directed by Flemish director Tim Mielants, who made a name for himself thanks to his work on an array of international series (Peaky Blinders, The Tunnel and Legion) and who has just been handed the Best Director Award at Karlovy Vary for his feature debut, Patrick [+see also:
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film profile]. Nobody Has To Know, produced by Versus Production (Belgium), is being co-produced by Prime Time (Belgium), Barry Crerar (UK) and Empreinte Cinéma (France).

The Walloon fund will also be supporting the live-action feature Toto [+see also:
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Lastly, Wallimage is also backing two co-productions being staged in Belgium by Liège-based outfit Tarantula. Following Nico, 1988 [+see also:
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Tarantula is also co-producing another historical film, Ostende 1936 by German director Uli Edel (Christiane F., Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Baader Meinhof Complex [+see also:
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(Translated from French)