{"id":430123,"date":"2026-01-22T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:32:08","slug":"trailer-for-berlin-competition-title-dust-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430123\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer for Berlin Competition Title &#8216;Dust&#8217; Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Belgian director Anke Blond\u00e9\u2019s drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dust\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dust\" data-tag=\"dust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dust<\/a> world premieres in competition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/berlin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_berlin\" data-tag=\"berlin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin<\/a> Film Festival in February and Deadline can reveal the first trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJan Hammenecker and Arieh Worthalter star as Belgian tech visionaries Luc and Geert, who learn that the long-running fraud underpinning their public success will hit the papers in less than 24 hours, causing their company and status to evaporate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStaring jail time in the face, they go their separate paths of redemption. As they quietly seek atonement from their investors and their families they are forced to take on board what truly matters in life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDust is Blond\u00e9\u2019s second feature after The Best of Dorien B., about a woman whose outwardly perfect life starts to fray at the seams when she learns of her mother\u2019s affair while also harboring suspicions about husband\u2019s close connection with a female colleague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPrior to that she made short films Mister Frits, Buiten Adem and Dura and also worked as casting editor on films such as Felix van Groeningen\u2019s The Misfortunates and The Broken Circle Breakdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe drama is lead produced by Dries Phlypo (The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard, Reedland) under the banner of his Ghent-based company A Private View in coproduction with Giorgos Karnavos for Greece\u2019s Heretic; James Watson and Mikko Makela for UK and Finland-based Betes Sauvages, and Joanna Szymanska and Krystyna Kantor for Poland\u2019s Shipsboy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAngelo Tijssens, who wrote the screenplay with other credits including Lukas Dhont\u2019s Girl, takes an executive producer credit, alongside Level K CEO Tine Klint and Rich Simpson at London-based Hijack Capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFurther backers include Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Screen Flanders, Casa Kafa Pictures, Eurimages, Creative Europe Media, Polish Film Institute, Timeless Studio, Hellenic Film &amp; Audiovisual Center \u2013 Creative Greece, BFI Global Screen Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLevel K is handling international sales and Kinepolis Film Distribution will release the film on February 25 in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/belgium\/\" id=\"auto-tag_belgium\" data-tag=\"belgium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Belgian director Anke Blond\u00e9\u2019s drama Dust world premieres in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,2071,79354,106561,225319,53306,134,344],"class_list":["post-430123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belgium","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-film-festival","tag-berlinale","tag-dust","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}