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Maedeli la brèche

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Maedeli la brèche
Directed byJaco Van Dormael
CinematographyHugo Kovensky
Edited byVéronique Saenz
Music byPierre Van Dormael
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
18 minutes
CountryBelgium
LanguagesSwedish
French

Maedeli la brèche is a 1980 Belgian short film written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael. The short film was shot in 1980 in Belgium with a Super 35 camera. The film starred Nico d'Oreye, Julie Dubart, Colette Forton, Marie-José Mgank and Jean-François Dufranne. The original music score was written by Pierre Van Dormael, Jaco's brother. Van Dormael wrote the film while he was a student at the INSAS in Brussels.[1]

Response

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On June 7, 1981, Maedeli la brèche won the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the 8th Student Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[2] It was awarded the Best Screenplay and the Best Short Film at the 1981 Festival de Bruxelles.[3] It also received the Channel 4 Award at the 1983 Munich Film Festival.[3] In 2011, it appeared at the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival held in Turin in the retrospective dedicated to Van Dormael.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Maedeli-la-brèche (1980)" (in French). Cinemotions.com. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  2. ^ "Student Film Award Winners" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 29, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Salina, Théo (March 1, 1999). "Maedeli-la-brèche de Jaco Van Dormael" (in French). Cinergie. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  4. ^ "Maedeli-la-brèche" (in Italian). Sottodiciotto Filmfestival. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
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