VANJA D'ALCANTARA
Vanja d'Alcantara was born in Brussels in 1977. She studied history at ULB, then filmmaking at the RITS. In 2002, she went for a year of specialization in script writing to New York University. Throughout her travels she developed various projects and in 2004 she directed and produced her first documentary La Tercera Vida (The Third Life), entirely shot in a prison in Spain. In 2006, she directed Granitsa, a short film. Beyond the steppes, her first feature film (2010), tells the story of a young Polish woman deported to Central Asia at the beginning of the Second World War. Then she directed Kokoro, partially shot in Japan.
KOKORO
Feature film, 95 minutes, color, 35mm, 2015
Screenplay by Vanja d’Alcantara with Gilles Taurand
From a novel by Olivier Adam
With Isabelle Carré, Jun Kunimura, Fabrizio Rongione, Niels Schneider
Produced by Blue Monday Productions
Coproduced by Need Productions - Belgium
Productions Avenida/ACPAV - Canada
French release March 30th, 2016 - VO/Condor
GRANITSA
Short film, 17 minutes, 2006
Screenplay by Vanja d'Alcantara
Produced by Need Productions
Festivals
Gent Film Festival 2006
Le Festival Le Court en Dit Long 2007
60ème Festival du Film de Locarno 2007
22ème Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur
MEDFILMFestival 2007 – Cinema of the Mediterranean in Rome 13° edition
BEYOND THE STEPPES
Feature film, 90 minutes, 2010
Screenplay by Vanja d'Alcantara
With Agnieszka Grochowska, Aleksandra Justa, Borys Szyc, Ahan Zolanbiek
Produced by Need Productions
Festivals
Prix du Jury au Festival de Marrakech
Selected at Magr
Selections : Festival du Film de Locarno, Semaine Internationale du Cinéma de Valladolid, Festival International du Film de Goa, Semaine Internationale du Cinéma de Cuenca, Nashville Film Festival, Polish Film Festival de Gdynia, etc.
LA TERCERA VIDA
Medium-lenght film, 48 minutes, 2005
Documentary produced and directed by Vanja d'Alcantara.