She set up her company, "MAN'S FILMS" in 1977, in order to make her first short film.
"THE BED" was her first feature film. In 1987, Marion Hänsel was named Belgian "Woman of the year".
From 1988 until 1990, she was elected President of the French Community Film Selection Board she was reelected as President in 1996-1997 and in 2002-2003.
Filmography
1977 - Equilibres , short
1982 - The Bed - Cavens Award for Best Film
1983 - Dust - Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival ‘85
1987 - Cruel Embrace - Europa Price, Barcelona 1987
1988 - Il Maestro - Price of the Public, San Sebastian 1990
1991 - On Earth as in Heaven - Femina Price for Best Script, 1995 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Official Section Cannes 1995
1998 - The Quarry - First Prize of the Americas and Award for Best Artistic Contribution (for the music of Takashi Kako) at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal
2001 - Clouds – Letter to my son - Selected at the Critic’s Week – Festival International du Film à Cannes
2006 - Sounds of sand – official competition San Sebastian Festival
Films produced or coproduced by Man’s Films
1982 - La Puritaine – Director : Jacques Doillon
1988 - Baptism – Director : René Feret
2000 - Presque rien – Director : Sébastien Lifshitz
2001 - No Man’s Land – Director : Danis Tanovic - Golden Globe for Best Foreign
Language Film 2002
2003 - 25° en hiver - Director : Stéphane Vuillet – Official competition
Berlin 2004
2005 - L’Enfer – Director : Danis Tanovic
Marc Durin-Valois, was born in 1959. In his childhood, he lived in the United States and in Uganda in addition to various times spent in other parts of Africa. After studying political science, he was went to HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) and began a career as a journalist becoming editor in chief for the publications “Azur économie”, “Régions d’Europe” and starting the review “ Pouvoir d’entreprise”. Today he devotes himself to teaching and the “problems of the contemporary world” at the university and through his writing.
His first novel L’empire des solitudes appeared in 2001 published by J. C. Lattès.
Chamelle (“She Camel”) came out in 2002 published by the same editor. It received a number of prizes:
2003: the Cinq Continents de la Francophonie Prize
2003: in France, the National culture et bibliothèques Prize
2003: the “Americo Vespucci” Prize as well as numerous Readers Prizes in France and was elected by the magazine “Lire” as one of that years best books in the world.
René-Marc Bini is a “seafaring” musician. The world offers him its sounds. His successive “lives” are linked to various sea voyages which have taken him to the Mediterranean, Trinidad, Cape Verdi, Senegal, Cuba, Chili, Saint Lucia… and each voyage is associated with a friendship and an encounter: Cyril Collard; Jean-Paul Long, Pape Dièye, Patrick Grandperret, Philippe Avril and led to the founding of a group: Cyr (1987), Lifeline (1992), Bilondiey (1996), Janeer (1998). It was the music for Bernard Giraudeau’s film Les Caprices d’un fleuve that made it clear to Marion Hänsel that he was the composer she was looking for for Sounds of Sand.
Music for films (selection):
Les Nuits fauves by Cyril Collard
Grande petite by Sophie Filière
Grosse fatigue by Michel Blanc
Les Caprices d’un fleuve by Bernard Giraudeau (nominated for the 1996 Cesar Awards)
Les Victimes by Patrick Grand Perret
Liberté Oléron by Bruno Podalydès
Frontières by Mostefa Djadjam
Ils by David Moreau et Xavier Palud
Director of Photography, born in Bruges in 1947.
Ever since she began making films, Marion Hänsel, has worked with him or wanted to work with him. He has taught her both rigorousness and how to take risks. Also meticulous preparation.
For Sounds of Sand there were very specific difficulties that required much experimentation and dozens of tests.
Selected Filmography:
Le Lit by Marion Hänsel, Babel Opéra by André Delvaux, Dust by Marion Hänsel, Falsch by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Noce en Galilée by Michel Khleifi, Les noces barbares by Marion Hänsel.
Toto le héros by Jaco Van Dormael, Golden Camera Award, Cannes 1991, Daens by Stijn Coninx, Le joueur du violon by Charlie Van Damme, Farinelli by Gérard Corbiaud, Le huitième jour by Jaco Van Dormael, La maison du canal by Alain Berliner, 25° en hiver by Stéphane Vuillet, Joyeux noel by C. Carion.
Director and screenplay: Marion Hänsel
Casting: Sylvie Brocheré – Sophie Blanchouin
DOP: Walter Vanden Ende
Art Director: Thierry Leproust
Costumes: Yan Tax
Make-Up: Dick Naastepad
Sound Engineer: Henri Morelle
Mixing: Bruno Tarrière
Editing: Michèle Hubinon
Composer: René-Marc Bini
1h36’ - 35 mm – color - 1:1,85 - DOLBY SRD
© 2006