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Aurore Engelen


1556 articles available in total starting from 19/03/2008. Last article published on 09/09/2025.

Sundown, Will-o'-the-Wisp and Austral scoop BRIFF’s Grand Prizes

Sundown, Will-o'-the-Wisp and Austral scoop BRIFF’s Grand Prizes

The 5th BRIFF has awarded a new prize to Mexican director Michel Franco, as well as commending João Pedro Rodriguez’s unclassifiable musical and Benjamin Colaux’s wonderful documentary  

04/07/2022 | BRIFF 2022 | Awards

Review: The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou

Review: The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou

Lucas Delangle delivers an inspired first feature in the vein of a new neo-rural French cinema on the border between naturalism and fantasy  

01/07/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Cédric Bourgeois • Director of Krump

Interview: Cédric Bourgeois • Director of Krump

"I’m happy to have been able to take risks with this film"

The young Belgian filmmaker chatted with us about his first feature film, a hopeless comedy following the tragicomic tribulations of an ex-porn actor  

01/07/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Review: Talking About the Weather

Review: Talking About the Weather

Annika Pinske delivers a first feature which subtly conveys a profound and well-rounded reflection on sexism and social determinism, without pontificating  

29/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Giordano Gederlini • Director of On The Edge

Interview: Giordano Gederlini • Director of On The Edge

"Just like in tragedies, violence is forced upon my characters"

We met with the screenwriter and director to talk about his angst-inducing crime film set in a sometimes-ghostly Brussels, which is occasionally haunted by a worn-out father condemned to violence  

28/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Review: Freestyle

Review: Freestyle

Didier Barcelo delivers a bittersweet comedy in the shape of a road movie on a background of contemporary neuroses, carried with conviction by Marina Foïs and Benjamin Voisin  

28/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Christophe Rolin • Director of Le Voyage de Talia

Interview: Christophe Rolin • Director of Le Voyage de Talia

"I had to deconstruct a lot of things in order to create Le Voyage de Talia"

The Belgian director speaks to us about his first fiction feature film, revolving around a young Belgian woman of African descent who dreams of Africa and goes off in search of her roots  

28/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Review: Le Voyage de Talia

Review: Le Voyage de Talia

Christophe Rolin delivers a classic yet moving debut feature film, charting the initiatory journey of a young Belgian of African descent who sets off in search of herself to her parents’ homeland  

27/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Review: Krump

Review: Krump

Cédric Bourgeois offers up a first feature film oscillating between dark comedy and nihilist crime movie, following the rickety adventures of a small-town thief who’s not cut out for crime  

27/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

Review: On the Edge

Review: On the Edge

Giordano Gederlini delivers a noir, even desperate thriller, in a nocturnal Brussels, where men no longer want to fight but are forced to  

27/06/2022 | BRIFF 2022

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