Teaser of CALAMITY - a short film by Séverine De Streyker & Maxime Feyers Contact: info@nextdaysfilms.com Infos on our website: http://www.nextdaysfilms.com/portfolio/calamity Festivals & palmarès -44 awards received -139 festival selections so far Asiana International Short Film Festival (Seoul, South Korea) > FESTIVAL GRAND PRIZE Brussels Short Film Festival > AUDIENCE AWARD > BEST ACTRESS AWARD Festival Off Courts Trouville (France) > RENAULT AWARD (BEST OF INTL COMPETITION) Festival ‘Les Enfants Terribles’, Huy (Belgium) > OFFICIAL JURY NATIONAL GRAND PRIZE > YOUTH JURY AWARD Festival Tels Quels (Brussels, Belgium) > BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AWARD > AUDIENCE AWARD Sardinia Queer Film Festival (Italy) > FESTIVAL GRAND PRIZE > SPECIAL MENTION OF THE YOUTH JURY Holebikort Film Festival (Belgium) > FESTIVAL GRAND PRIZE Festival Du Grain à Démoudre (France) > FESTIVAL GRAND PRIZE > YOUNG CINEPHILES JURY PRIZE > AUDIENCE AWARD Sulmona International Film Festival (Italy) > JURY SPECIAL AWARD Bahia Cine Festival (Brazil) > BEST LGBT FILM Festival Ecran Libre (France) > 'AIGUES MORTES CITY' AWARD Festival Courts en Scène (France) > BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AWARD Festival International du Film de Sarlat (France) > SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne (France) > SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY Festival Tous Courts, Aix en Provence (France) > SPECIAL MENTION OF THE YOUTH JURY Solidando Film Festival (Italy) > JURY’s SECOND PRIZE Santo Domingo Outfest (Dominican Republic) > BEST SHORT FILM AWARD Festival Des Courts en Hiver (France) > STUDENTS’JURY AWARD Findecoin Film Festival (Venezuela) > BEST LGBT FILM Artfools Festival (Larissa, Greece) > SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY Festival Désir... Désirs (Tours, France) > AUDIENCE AWARD Redline International Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) > BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD > BEST ACTRESS AWARD New Renaissance Lgbt Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) > BEST SHORT FILM AWARD > BEST ACTRESS AWARD Festival de Largos y Cortos de Santiago (Chile) > BEST DIRECTION AWARD Festival international du film de femmes (Créteil, France) > BEST FRENCH SPEAKING SHORT FILM AWARD > AUDIENCE AWARD > SPECIAL MENTION OF THE UPEC UNIVERSITY JURY QFlix Philadelphia Film Festival (USA) > BEST SHORT IN ITS CATEGORY (NARRATIVE) University of Westminster Film Festival (UK) > BEST EDITING AWARD Lakeshorts International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada) > AUDIENCE AWARD > BEST ACTRESS AWARD International Changing Perspectives Festival (Istanbul, Turkey) > BEST FILM (POTLUCK AWARD) Wicked Film Festival (Boston, USA) > AUDIENCE AWARD Lanzarote International Film Festival > BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM - Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil) - Concorto Film Festival (Italie) - Festival Queer Lisboa (Portugal) - Raindance Film Festival, London (UK) - Lisbon International Film Awards – Cinalfama (Portugal) - Hong Kong G&L Film Festival (Hong Kong) - Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (Belgium) - Fête du Cinéma Belge, Amay (Belgium) - Goa Short Film Festival (India) - European Film Festival, Nice (France) - Sedicicorto International Film Festival (Italy) - Cape Town International Film Festival (South Africa) - Northern Wave International Film Festival (Iceland) - Interfilm Berlin (Germany) - Aesthetica Short Film Festival (U-K) - Fenêtres sur Courts – Dijon (France) - Pöff Shorts by Tallinn Blacks Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia) - Merlinka International Film Festival (Serbia) - Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival (Greece) - Festival Ciudad de la Solana (Spain) - Omovies Film Festival (Italy) - Festival ‘Le jour le plus court’ (Belgium) - Flickerfest International Short Film Festival (Australia) - Ramdam Festival (Belgique) - Pinx Festival, Gent (Belgium) - Festival ‘Drôle d’endroit pour une rencontre’ (Bron, France) - Festival ‘Des images aux mots’ (Toulouse, France) - Independent International Short Film Festival FINDECOIN (Venezuela) - British Film Institute BFI Flare Festival (London, UK) - Los Angeles Short Film Festival (USA) - Miami Independent Film Festival (USA) - Festival international du film d’Aubagne (France) - Bilbao Zinegoak International Film Festival (Spain) - Muestra Internacional de cinema de Palencia (Spain) - Festival du cinéma belge de Moustier (Belgium) - Fememina Festival (Montevideo, Uruguay) - La Caravane du Court du FIFF Namur (Belgium) - La Caravane ensorcelée (France) - Moscow International Film Festival (Russia) - Hollywood Comedy Shorts Festival (USA) - Friss Hus Budapest International Film Festival (Hungary) - Festival del cine Articulo 31 (Madrid, Spain) - Changing Perspectives Film Festival (Istanbul) - Julien Dubuque International Film Festival (USA) - Kyiv International Film Festival (Ukraine) ...

Synopsis

'France meets her son's girlfriend for the first time, she loses control…

Director Biography

Maxime Feyers was born in 1980 in Belgium. He is an actor, director and producer based in Brussels. His first short film as a director Come What May, released in 2012, was programmed in more than 50 festivals around the world (Los Angeles, Shanghai, Busan, Raindance, Brussels, Paris,...) and broadcasted on FR3 (French TV), RTBF (Belgian TV) and Japanese tv. He also directed one episode (52’) of the Japanese TV Docu-series ‘Rendez-vous à Paris’. Maxime also produced and co-produced several short films (The Dancing by Edith Depaule, Marlon by Jessica Palud,...). He is also an actor for shorts, features, theatre plays and commercials. Calamity is his second short film, directed with Severine De Streyker, released in 2017. He is now working on his next project, a feature film. This new project was developed at the Villa Lena Foundation in Tuscany where Maxime was selected as a resident artist.

 
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Maxime Feyers