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There is something overwhelmingly mortal about our desire to preserve what antiquity is determined to destroy. Frank Van Passel (@frankvanpassel) situates an improbable love affair within the uneasy stillness of Brussels in May 1940, when Europe stands upon the precipice of catastrophe in The Soundman. Against this gathering darkness, a gifted sound technician, Berre (@jef.hellemans), and an aspiring actress, Elza (@femke_vanhove), discover intimacy within the enchanted sphere of radio.

Yet to regard this purely as a period romance would be to mistake its surface for its substance. Van Passel’s more intriguing proposition concerns the psychology of perception: what does it mean to inhabit a universe that one cannot entirely trust, and to seek refuge in the invisible? Sound becomes an existential metaphor, reminding us that circumstance is not exhausted by what the eye can apprehend. The unseen, like the unspoken, may possess a greater emotional truth than the immediately visible.

Radio, too, assumes an interrogative significance. It manufactures phantom cosmoses even as the actual circle disintegrates. Here lies the picture’s central paradox: people require stories not because reality is insufficiently dramatic, but because reality can be intolerably cruel. Imagination becomes an act of cerebral resistance.

The encroaching war lends this tenderness its moral gravity. As prejudice, political cowardice and the collapse of social certainties unmask the fragility of civilisation, the film surreptitiously interrogates the distinction between only flourishing and remaining human. Recitation, after all, does not reveal character exclusively through grandiose gestures; it exposes it through the small compromises by which ordinary individuals reconcile themselves to extraordinary wickedness.

The Soundman ultimately suggests that love is neither an escape from history nor a guarantee against suffering. It is something more defiant: the insistence that, even as the world descends into silence, another earthborn voice bides worth hearing.

#Drama #Romance #JefHellemans #TheSoundman #FrankVanPassel

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You want te be part of this thing! 🌝

Come join us this Saturday 29th of August. Our doors open at 14:00. Come early and don’t miss out on any of our beautiful artists…

Delicious food and drinks all day long!

Come by train! Enjoy a 20 minute walk to the festival. Or, if you must, come by car… There’s Short Wood parking a little further down the street.

Stay the night at our campsite! Very cosy!!!

See you there! ♥️

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10 years of Short Wood bliss ♥️ Hope to see you all Saturday 29 August to celebrate!!! Get your tickets now via the link in our bio…

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Nog even wachten op de film, maar de weg ernaartoe delen we graag met jullie! 🤩🎬 Swipe voor een blik achter de schermen tijdens onze ADR-opnames! 🎙️🎧

#kartonnendozen #polarbear #vlaamsefilm #tomlanoye #comingsoon

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Finally ‘Radioman/The Soundman’ came to dutch theatres!
For this amazing film we created some really cool studiosets. Like these 1940s radio play studios.

Lots of love for the ever inspiring writer/director @frankvanpassel! Big shoutout to the beautiful lighting and shots of @laurensdegeyter.

Biggest respect to @margriet.procee and Mariël Hoevenaars . The Costume, Make-up and Art triangle worked so amazingly well for this project.

And above all, love for my co-designer @sannecroonenberg.

Last bit not least.. thank you @antoincox and @hermanpieete for the magical melting of the eye and the ear!

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Thank you Knokke Off 😍 what a great surprise!!

You can watch the full series on @netflixnl & @vrtmax_be

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DE reünie die we allemaal nodig hadden! 🥹🥹🥹 @pommelienthijs #knokkeoff

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Whaaat?!?! 🥳❤️👏🏼
Amazing news!!! - Knokke Off the film!

Did not see that coming. And what a way to announce it at Pommelien’s third show at AFAS Dome with the Knokke Off cast and crew there. ✨

Speechless but so happy 😆

@pommelienthijs @willem_de_schryver
c: netflixnl, Anthony Schatteman, kimberlyybella (TTok), z019488 (TTok)
#knokkeoff #hightides #willemdeschryver #pommelienthijs #netflix

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Wat wil jij in april zien?
Het programma voor deze week kan je ook bekijken via ccha.be/dezeweek.
Ons volledig programma vind je op ccha.be.

#cultuurcentrumhasselt
@uitinhasselt @visithasselt @stadhasselt
© foto’s: Sever Zolak, Jonas Baeke, Michiel Devijver, CREW collective, Lex Overtoom & Yoko Haveman, Geert Saenen, Roger Anthoine, Sepideh Farvardin

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SPOILER! Middeleeuwse techno met een harp gemaakt voor het nieuwe seizoen van Knokke Off 🪉🪉

#knokkeoff #harp #techno #musicproducer #hightide

Original soundtrack by @sohnarr

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KNOKKE OFF 3 NU ONLINE 💥

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@dingiemedia
@vrtmax_be
@netflixnl
@capture_be
@anthonyschatteman

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