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Loynes

Dorian Jespers
Belgium / France / North Macedonia / United Kingdom
25'

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

Borrowing, in true Flemish fashion, something from Bosch’s pictural cacophonies and something from Rubens’ fluid agglomeration of bodies, LOYNES is a post-mortem nightmare where a body falls from the skies straight into a 19th-century courtroom, drunk on its own Victorian pomp and peplum. As much as the corpse has no name or identifiable past, this carnivalesque purgatory is intent on serving justice – based on what and against whom are questions too trivial for this theater of the absurd. Achieving the perfect balance between cinematic vertigo and dry humor, this farcical take on a period drama demonstrates a fact that is easily verifiable in immediate reality: not even death can stop bureaucracy. The Last Judgment, too, is nothing more than a procedural formality. (Dora Leu)

Saturday, September 27, 18:00

Cinema Elvire Popesco
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Dorian Jespers

Dorian Jespers is a filmmaker trained at INSAS, KASK, and Le Fresnoy. His short film Sun Dog, inspired by a surreal journey in the Russian Arctic, won over twenty awards worldwide — including the main prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival — and was named Short Film of the Year 2020 by the Short Film Conference. It qualified for the Ensors, the European Film Awards, and the Oscars, and was screened at MoMA, ICA London, Garage Moscow, among others.

  • Technical sheet
  • SCREENPLAY: Raphaël Meyer, Dorian Jespers
  • PRODUCER: Scum Pictures: Clyde Gates, Dorian Jespers
  • : Films Grand Huit: Jules Reinartz
  • IMAGE: Arnaud Alberola
  • SOUND DESIGNER: Thomas Becka, Zakhar Semirkhanov, Raf Enckels
  • EDITOR: Charles Dhondt, Liyo Gong, Ariane Boukerche, Omar Guzman
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lucie Beauvert
  • COSTUMES: Rezvan Farsijani
  • CAST: Elaine Collins, Vicenç Altaio, Johan Opstaele, Sheila Breen Rickerby, Margaret O’Kell, Brian Philips, Terry Briscoe

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