These projects found their composer through Third Character at WSA
About Third Character
A third character. That's how Federico Fellini referred to film music, highlighting the importance of music and sound. With Third Character, an international film music market, we do exactly that.
The project gives composers the opportunity to meet duos of producers and directors who are working on a film project. It's the perfect way for composers, directors and producers alike to build a network and to find common creative ground. Collaborations born out of these meetings have the opportunity to apply for financial support for the score through authors' rights organisations Sabam, Sacem and Buma Music in Motion (BMIM) (only for member composers).
The Third Character project is a unique initiative developed by Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille (MCM) and Sacem, and is annually organised in Marseille in April during MCM and in October in Ghent as part of the WSA Film Music Days.
Registration for 2026 will open in the spring. If you have any questions, please contact hanne@filmfestival.be.
Recent Third Character projects
A selection of film projects that were recently completed and got to know their composers through Third Character.
Passing Current (Wie ben ik, als ik ontwaak?) - dir. Lize Cuveele, music by Élodie Fournot
Associate Directors, selected for Docville 2026
When therapy and medication offer no relief for severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — better known as electroshock therapy — can provide hope. Mie and Tine have been struggling with depression for years. Now, they are placing their hopes on ECT. How do they experience the treatment? Do they gradually regain their former selves? And how do they cope with the lingering haze that remains after an ECT session?
Stay (Blijf) - dir. Nick Ceulemans, music by Bart Van Lierde
Menuetto, selected for Filmfestival Oostende 2025, Bruges International Film Festival 2025, SOUQ Film Festival 2025, Lee Strasberg Film Festival 2025, Little Venice Film Festival 2026
A young man fights alongside and against the love of his life, as she struggles with an elusive psychological condition.
Coral City - dir. Charlotte De Cort, music by Pieter Van Dessel
Associate Directors, selected for Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2024, Festival Dei Popoli 2024, FIFOI 2024, Docville 2025, Tegenstroom 2025, EKOFILM 2025, Canberra Short Film Festival, Braga Science Film Fest 2025, Nottingham Film Festival 2025, Science-toi / Festival du Court métrage Scientifique de Riom 2025, Mares da Fin do Mundo 2025
Together with a Belgian research team, a young Sri Lankan scientist and mother tries to uncover the secret of migrating coral larvae, in order to protect the coral reefs and people of her country.
Tantalum - dir. Matthias de Groof, music by Thomas Walravens
Cobra Films, Yole!Africa, Les Mecs, selected for Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2025, Brussels Short Film Festival 2026, Afrika Film Festival 2026, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2026
Tantalum follows the trajectory of a tiny piece of tantalum: from the Congolese mine to military equipment, a Ghanian dumpsite, and finally to outer space.
The Sessions (De Sessies) - dir. Sien Versteyhe, music by Patricia Vanneste
Lionheart Productions, selected for Internationaal Documentaire Festival Amsterdam 2025, Docville 2026
The Sessions pulls you into one woman’s fight to reclaim her voice and future after she became a victim of sexual violence by someone she trusted.
The day the sun stopped shining (De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen) - dir. Maria Stuut, Frederik Stuut, music by Sören Le Lay
Associate Directors, selected for Docville 2025
66 million years ago the dinosaurs went extinct; this is not an impossible love story, it’s a true crime, set in deep time.
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