POLAR BEAR
Belgium
XAVIER ROMBAUT
General Manager & Producer
LIZE LEFAIBLE
Producer
+32 9 398 12 10
Company Profile
Polar Bear is an independent production company founded by Xavier Rombaut and based in Flanders, Belgium, with almost 20 years of experience. We produce premium quality and accessible drama and documentary, as well as factual TV, rooted in challenging local content and targeting global audiences. Polar Bear collaborates with both established and emerging talent, translating their vision and creativity to the screen. Keywords within our perception are: authenticity, creativity, content–driven, sustainability and representativeness.
Lize Lefaible
Xavier Rombaut
Company Highlights
THE AGE OF MAGIC 2025 (PRE-PRODUCTION)
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Peter Krüger
Screenplay: Ben Okri & Peter Krüger
Cast: Ongoing
On a captivating voyage, renowned black writer Lao and his girlfriend are followed by a five-headed film crew. Commissioned by an enigmatic benefactor, their journey to uncover Arcadia leads them to a magical town on the shores of a stunning lake, where they are all confronted with their own demons.
YOUNG HEARTS 2024
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Young adult
Director: Anthony Schatteman
Screenplay: Anthony Schatteman
Cast: Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg, Emilie De Roo & Dirk Van Dijck
Elias (14) feels attracted to his new neighbour Alexander (14). Soon he realizes that he's truly in love for the first time. The interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers. Confused by his burgeoning feelings, Elias tries to sort out his inner chaos to prove that he is worth Alexander's heart.
World premiere: 74th Berlin International Film Festival
Selections and nominations: 74th Berlin International Film Festival - Crystal Bear Special Mention award
Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival
Pink Apple - Best Feature Special Mention Award
Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg - Audience Award
Cannes Ecrans Junior
Zlin Film Festival
Omladinski Film Festival Sarajevo
Seattle International Film Festival
Frameline Filmfestival
KANUN 2022
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Crime
Director: Jérémie Guez
Screenplay: Jérémie Guez
Cast: Waël Sersoub, Tugba Sunguroglu, Arben Bajraktaraj
Lorik, in his early thirties, works in Brussels as an accomplice of the Albanian mafia together with his mentor Aleks. He falls in love with Sema, an art student born in Turkey. The past doesn't let go of Lorik. A guy from Albania, whose father was murdered by Lorik's uncle, has tracked him down and, according to the rules of the 'Kanun' (traditional Albanian law), wants the debt to his family to be paid in blood. In other words, he asks the clan for Lorik's death.
Selections and nominations: Film Festival Oostende
SUMMERLIGHT... AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT 2022
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Elfar Adelsteins
Screenplay: Elfar Aellsteins, Jon Stefansson
Cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Heida Reed
A remote village tells the stories about its colourful inhabitants of this remote Icelandic microcosm. They fight against the extremes of summer light and winter darkness, happiness and sorrow, love and betrayal and life itself.
World premiere: 69th Berlin International Film Festival
Selections and nominations: Reykjavik International Film Festival
PÖFF - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Film Festival Oostende
Santa Barbara Film Festival - Best Nordic Film Award