FRAKAS PRODUCTIONS

belgium

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JEAN-YVES ROUBIN

Producer

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+32 4 231 38 63

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COMPANY PROFILE

Founded in 2007, Frakas Productions is a Belgian production company based in Liège, producing mainly feature films and that is very active in international coproductions.

Frakas Productions and its young directors cast a critical and sharp glance at our society through powerful and ambitious subjects. It has produced films such as David Lambert’s BEYOND THE WALLS (Critics Week, Cannes 2012) & ALL YOURS, Delphine Noels’s POST PARTUM or Marta Bergman’s ALONE AT MY WEDDING (ACID, Cannes 2018). International coproductions include films such as Katell Quillévéré’s HEAL THE LIVING (2016), Julia Ducournau’s RAW (Critics Week, Cannes 2016), Jaume Balaguero’s MUSE (2017), Kyoshi Kurosawa’s DAGUERROTYPE (2017), Michaël R. Roskam’s RACER AND THE JAILBIRD, Lukas Dhont’s GIRL (Golden Camera, Cannes 2018), Lorcan Finnegan ‘s VIVARIUM (Critics Week, Cannes 2019), Mati Diop’s ATLANTICS (Grand Prize, Cannes 2019).

Frakas is currently coproducing Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s EARWIG , Antoine Barraud’s MADELEINE COLLINS and Arthur Harari’s ONODA. Current majority feature films in post-production include Banu Akseki’s SANS SOLEIL, Christophe Hermans’ LA RUCHE, Giordano Gederlini’s BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH and Fabrice Du Welz’s INEXORABLE.
Jean-Yves Roubin, its founder and manager, is also the president of UPFF – the Belgian Producers’ Guild (French speaking part).

Jean-Yves Roubin

Producer

COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS

GIRL  2018

Genre:              Drama

Director:          Lukas Dhont

Screenplay:      Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens

Cast:                 Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter

Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

71ème Festival de Cannes - Prix Un Certain Regard

ALONE AT MY WEDDING  2019

Genre:             Drama

Director:         Marta Bergman

Screenplay:     Marta Bergman, Laurent Brandenbourger, Katell Quillévéré, Boris Lojkine

Cast:                Alina Serban, Tom Vermeir, Marian Samu, Rebecca Anghel, Viorica Rudareasa, Jonas Bloquet

Insolent, spontaneous, funny. Pamela, a young Roma, is different from other girls in her community. A single mother, she lives with her grandmother and her little girl in small hut where the three of them share a bed. How can she reconcile the needs of her two-year old daughter and her dream of freedom? Pamela embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. «Lapin, pizza, amour». All she has are three words in French and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughter’s destiny.

Best Film - Cinédays 2018

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GRAVE/RAW   2016

Genre:              Drama/Horror

Director:          Julia Ducournau

Screenplay:     Julia Ducournau

Cast:                Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Sophie Breyer, Bouli Lanners

An innocent teenager, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

69ème Festival de Cannes - Semaine de la Critique - Prix FIPRESCI
Festival du Film Fantastique de Gerardmer - Grand Prix & Prix de la Critique.