About the movie - synopsis

We follow Sam, a security agent in a shopping mall. On a normal day, a bomb explodes. Sam tries to save the victims, until something terrible happens. He runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman’s voice makes him raise his head. She’s one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even the confrontation with the wrongdoer isn’t that straightforward as he thought it would be. He finds out that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.



About the director - Koen Mortier

Koen Mortier directed his first short “Ana Temnei” in 1996. It won amongst several prices also a gold Award at the Worldfest in Houston in 1997. His second short “A hard Days works” will win even more prices (Sabam Price during Int. Brussels Film festival ’97, Audience Award Sarajevo ’97, Price Centaur at St. Petersburg ‘97) and has been selected on more than 30 festivals worldwide.

In 1998 Koen Mortier starts up his own production company “CZAR.BE”, an affiliate company of the Amsterdam-based “CZAR.NL”. Within Czar, he has meanwhile made numerous commercials, both in his name as under the name “Lionel Goldstein” that won several important national and international awards, among the Best Director Award for the British Television Advertising Awards and three Golden Lions in Cannes in both 2002, 2003 and 2005. In 2007 Koen Mortier won the Price for Best Director in The Netherlands with his commercial for “RVS”.

In September 2002, CZAR.BE starts up CCCP, a production company that focuses on feature films and documentaries. Like that he could start with the finance and the production of his first feature film “Ex Drummer”. In February 2006 we started with the recordings of “Ex Drummer”. The film is released in the Benelux in January 2007. “Ex Drummer” was already invited to a lot of film festivals and was sold to different countries. It won also “Best Feature Debute” at the Raindance Filmfestival, the “Public Prize” at the Fantasy Filmfest in Germany, the “Special Prize of the Jury” at the Warsaw Filmfestival and the “Gold Award” at Fantasia Film Festival Montréal.

Koen Mortier just finished “22nd of MAY” and is working on two new feature films: “KILLROY” and “HAUNTED” based on the novel “Haunted” by Chuck Palahniuk.



22 mei ost


Set pictures

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News

22 MAY RELEASE IN FRANCE
Monday 21/11/2011, 15u15

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SOME GOOD NEWS!!
Monday 21/11/2011, 15u15

- 22 May wins prize for best scenario at Baghdad International Film Festival

- 22 May screened on following festivals:
Sitges International Film Festival

Noordelijk Film Festival

Leeds International Film Festival
(review here)

Lublijana International Film Festival

Cinedays 2011

Rendez-Vous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto, Canada



22 MEI ON THE NEXT FESTIVALS
Wednesday 25/08/2011, 15u15

Etrange Filmfest, Paris
Etrange Filmfest - Focus Koen Mortier
Etrange Filmfest - Buy tickets

Fantasy Film Festival, across Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Köln, Nürnberg, Stuttgart, München)

Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq -more info soon )


22MEI NOW IN CINEMA IN HOLLAND
Wednesday 24/05/2011, 15u15

Give it a shot in one of these theatres:
Amsterdam, Kriterion
Den Haag, Filmhuis
Rotterdam, Lantarenvenster
Utrecht, LHC


22nd of May selected for the HKIFF.
Wednesday 03/03/2011, 09u15

After receiving its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, 22nd of May was shown in competition at both the Ghent International Film Festival and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, where it was part of the special ‘Return of the Tigers’ anniversary programme. The film’s international sales are handled by Paris-based Reel Suspects. According to the HKIFF, 22nd of May tackles its subject matter “with gorgeously bleak handheld visuals, beautiful destruction in slow-mo and painstakingly observed long takes”.


22 May will be screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in The return of the Tiger Award competition!!
Wednesday 19/01/2011, 15u15

Read more:
Press Release


Quit Earth review
Wednesday 08/12/2010, 9u15

Click for more:
QUIT EARTH review


National reviews
Friday 19/11/2010, 16u15

Click for more:
HUMO review
DE MORGEN review
CINENEWS review
LE SOIR review


22 Mei te zien vanaf 17 November
Tuesday 09/11/2010, 11u15

en dit alles in 1 van volgende zalen:
Antwerpen - Metropolis
Gent - Sphinx
Kortrijk - Kinepolis
Brussel - Kinepolis
Luik - Les Grignoux


Toronto International Film Festival - some reviews
Wednesday 15/09/2010, 16u36

Click for more:
TIFF review
Twitch review
The Gate review


'22 mei' geselecteerd voor filmfestival Toronto
Tuesday 24/10/2010, 14u14

De film '22 mei' van Koen Mortier is geselecteerd voor het internationaal filmfestival van Toronto in Canada. Dat heeft het Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds dinsdag meegedeeld. Na 'Ex Drummer' is dit de tweede langspeelfilm van Mortier. Hij gaat in Toronto in wereldpremière.
Het festival, dat van 9 tot 19 september plaatsvindt, selecteerde '22 mei' voor het programma Contemporary World Cinema, waarin 'de beste films uit elke hoek van de wereld' getoond worden.
Eerder werd al bekend dat de 3D-animatiefilm 'Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage' van Ben Stassen en de Nederlands-Duits-Belgische co-productie 'Brownian Movement' van de Nederlandse regisseur Nanouk Leopold in het Visions-programma van het festival worden vertoond. Alle films kwamen met steun van het VAF tot stand.
In '22 mei' wordt het leven van Sam, een bewakingsagent in een winkelcentrum, door elkaar geschud wanneer een jongen met een rugzak zichzelf in het winkelcentrum tot ontploffing brengt. De film wordt op 17 november in de Belgische bioscopen verwacht. De première in Toronto is voor 13 september gepland.
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Contact

Eurydice Gysel
eurydice@epidemic.be

Epidemic
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T +32 2 413 17 80
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Press

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Hi-Res Set Pictures by Nicolas Karakatsanis
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Lo-Res Set Pictures by Nicolas Karakatsanis
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Lo-Res Set Pictures by Toon Aerts
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New lo-res Set Pictures (updated 07dec)
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written and directed by
Koen mortier

cast
SAM LOUWYCK
TITUS DE VOOGDT
JAN HAMMENECKER
WIM WILLAERT
NORMAN BAERT
STEFFI PEETERS
BARBARA CALLEWAERT
GUNTER LAMOOT

production company
EPIDEMIC

co-producers
RYVA (B)
IJSWATER FILMS (NL)
REVOLVER (NL)
THE POST REPUBLIC (G)

PRODUCER
EURYDICE GYSEL

DOP
GLYNN SPEECKAERT

ART DEPARTMENT
GEERT PAREDIS

COSTUME DESIGN
CATHERINE MARCHAND

SOUND ENGINEER
LUC CUVEELE

EDITING
NICO LEUNEN

STEADICAM-OPERATOR
JO VERMAERCKE

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
FLEMISH AUDIOVISUAL FUND
CFWB
DUTCH FILM FUND
ROTTERDAM MEDIA FUND
BELGIAN TAX SHELTER
CANVAS

DISTRIBUTOR
KFD (KINEPOLIS GROUP)
BELGIUM
CINEART
THE NETHERLANDS
Art Project

Stephan Vanfleteren
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Bert Teunisse
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Paul Kooiker
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Debby Huysmans
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Nicolas Karakatsanis
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Links

cccp.be
epidemic.be
czar.be
milkandcookies.be
twitchfilm.net
vaf.be
flandersimage.com/
wallimage.be
warp.net
eatpes.com
zonderling.be
chuckpalahniuk.net
randomhouse.com
mgrsounds.com
atpfestival.com
stephanvanfleteren.com
jovoets.eu
theskeletonherald.blogspot.com
debbyhuysmans.be
bertteunissen.com
paulkooiker.com
toonaerts.com
sam-dillemans.com
blublu.org
xmarkjenkinsx.com
ijswater.nl
revolver.nl
clapwallonie.be
post-republic.de
minivegas.co.uk
exdrummer.com
siemianythemovie.eu
tiff.net
filmfestivalrotterdam.com
filmfestival.be

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