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Aurore Engelen


1536 articles available in total starting from 19/03/2008. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

Interview: Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

"I wanted to move towards something more lyrical, to find greater depth"

The Belgian director is back with a new film, which sees him continuing to explore his favourite theme – parenthood – while relocating his work to Japan  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: A Missing Part

Review: A Missing Part

Guillaume Senez takes Romain Duris to Japan, telling a fine and well-put-together story about parenthood where a father allows himself a final reprieve and in which emotion swells like a wave  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Maldoror

Interview: Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Maldoror

"I wanted the film to be totally accessible because the subject matter is important, it goes beyond me"

VENICE 2024: We met with the Belgian filmmaker who’s presenting a family portrait morphing into an angst-ridden detective film, inspired by the criminal case which saw his homeland implode  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Maldoror

Review: Maldoror

VENICE 2024: Fabrice Du Welz displays a spectacular change in register, using fiction to explore the case of Marc Dutroux, the collective trauma which shook Belgium in the ‘90s  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Michiel Blanchart • Director of Night Call

Interview: Michiel Blanchart • Director of Night Call

"Mady fully represents our history and our times, yet he is a hero rarely seen in Belgian cinema"

An interview with the young Belgian filmmaker to mark the release in France and Belgium of his first feature film, a nocturnal urban thriller  

28/08/2024 | /Belgium/France

Review: Night Call

Review: Night Call

Michiel Blanchart seizes on the tropes of the social thriller with infectious glee and applies them to his own city, Brussels, during a night that never ends  

27/08/2024 | Films | Reviews | Belgium/France

Review: Listen to the Voices

Review: Listen to the Voices

With his debut feature, Maxime Jean-Baptiste delivers an intimate and poignant film that fills in the missing images of French Guiana, in a free form  

14/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del presente

Review: Mexico 86

Review: Mexico 86

After Our Mothers, which won Cannes’ Golden Camera in 2019, César Díaz is changing tone to deliver a personal and high-tension spy film questioning parenthood and social engagement  

10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

César Díaz • Director of Mexico 86

Interview: César Díaz • Director of Mexico 86

"In the collective imaginary, a father who leaves home to fight is a hero, whereas a mother who does the same is irresponsible"

We met with the Belgian-Guatemalan director who’s making his return with an spy film exploring the origins of the civil war which devastated his homeland for over 10 years  

10/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Samuel Kircher to star in Valéry Carnoy’s La Danse des Renards

Samuel Kircher to star in Valéry Carnoy’s La Danse des Renards

The young Belgian director is due to kick off filming on his first feature, produced by Hélicotronc and Les Films du Poisson  

31/07/2024 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France

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