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Aurore Engelen


1551 articles available in total starting from 19/03/2008. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

Interview: Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

"This story is a metaphor for the way the Iraqi dream has been annihilated"

We met with the Belgian-Kurdish director who chose to reinvent his hit, short film and turn it into a feature film  

03/02/2023 | /Belgium/Netherlands/Iraq

Review: Baghdad Messi

Review: Baghdad Messi

Sahim Omar Kalifa pleads for the preservation of the Iraqi people’s lost dreams, depicting the singular trajectory of a football-crazy little boy who’ll do anything to keep his passion afloat  

02/02/2023 | Films | Reviews | Belgium/Netherlands/Iraq

Dominique Deruddere  • Director of The Chapel

Interview: Dominique Deruddere • Director of The Chapel

"Is talent a blessing or a curse?"

We met with the Belgian director who’s back with a new feature film rife with dramatic tension  

31/01/2023 | /Belgium

Jessica Woodworth • Director of Luka

Interview: Jessica Woodworth • Director of Luka

“Sometimes it feels like we haven’t learned anything”

We met with the Belgian-American director, who presents a free and inspired adaptation of the cult novel by Dino Buzzati  

30/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Luka

Review: Luka

Jessica Woodworth transposes the questions posed by The Desert of the Tartars into a sumptuous film, set in a post-apocalyptic future that asks us about our present  

30/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Chapel

Review: The Chapel

Dominique Deruddere takes us behind the scenes of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in the company of a young virtuoso pianist consumed by her demons  

27/01/2023 | Films | Reviews | Belgium

Review: When It Melts

Review: When It Melts

In her first feature-length directorial effort, Veerle Baetens offers up a very close adaptation of Lise Spit’s novel, exploring the resurgence of our childhood traumas  

23/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Veerle Baetens • Director of When it Melts

Interview: Veerle Baetens • Director of When it Melts

"I wanted to try to understand this silence, and to help people understand it too"

The internationally renowned Flemish actress spoke to us about her first feature film, an uncompromising movie about a young woman haunted by her past  

20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Eve Duchemin • Director of Time Out

Interview: Eve Duchemin • Director of Time Out

"The emotions we feel watching fiction films are roused differently to when we watch documentaries"

We met with the Belgian director who won the Magritte for Best Documentary in 2018 and who is now trying her hand at fiction by way of her new feature film  

20/01/2023 | /Belgium/France

Review: Time Out

Review: Time Out

Eve Duchemin takes an intense yet subtle approach to depict the impossibility of three prisoners allowing themselves to enjoy life while on leave  

19/01/2023 | Films | Reviews | Belgium/France

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