FRAKAS PRODUCTIONS
belgium
Contact
JEAN-YVES ROUBIN
Producer
+32 4 231 38 63
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 co-productions.
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, All Yours or Delphine Noels’s Post Partum. International coproductions include films such as Delphine Gleize’s La Permission De Minuit (2011), Virginie Despentes' Bye Bye Blondie (2012), Katell Quillévéré’s Répaper Les Vivants (2016), Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016), Jaume Balaguero’s Muse (2017), Kyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype (2017), Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and the Jailbird, Lukas Dhondt’s Girl.
Frakas is currently coproducing Lorcan Finnegan‘s Vivarium, Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever and Arthur Harari’s 10.000 Nights in the Jungle. Jean-Yves Roubin, its founder, and the manager is also the co-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
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.