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Aurore Engelen


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

Review: Nobody Has to Know

Review: Nobody Has to Know

Bouli Lanners deterritorialises his cinema to tell, in English, a tender and delicate love story, doubled with a portrait of emancipation and a reflection on memory  

13/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Contemporary World Cinema

Review: Inexorable

Review: Inexorable

Fabrice Du Welz delivers an incredibly dark film noir scrutinising an inescapably fatal encounter between a mysterious young woman and a very bourgeois couple  

13/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Special Presentations

Review: Family

Review: Family

Milo Rau adapts his own play, about a typical middle-class family whose every member has decided to end their life  

13/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Claude Schmitz • Director of Lucie Loses Her Horse

Interview: Claude Schmitz • Director of Lucie Loses Her Horse

"The making of a poetic material fascinates me"

The film and theatre director talks about his feature debut, a hybrid and dreamlike film  

10/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Review: Becoming Mona

Review: Becoming Mona

Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden paint the portrait of a woman condemned by her own kindness and worry for others to live in the shadows of those she loves  

09/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Fred De Loof  • Director of Totem

Interview: Fred De Loof • Director of Totem

"I was looking for a very classic film effect to counterbalance the slightly heavy-handed humour and endless teasing"

We spent a bit of time with the Belgian filmmaker who spoke to us about his off-the-wall first feature film, which is a deliciously coarse comedy shot on a low budget  

09/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Review: Lucie Loses Her Horse

Review: Lucie Loses Her Horse

Claude Schmitz offers a dreamlike tale, an ode to theatre life, and a loose wandering through the psyche of an actress at the dawn of a new role  

08/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Review: Rookie

Review: Rookie

Lieven Van Baelen offers a dizzying trip into the world of road racing, full of adrenaline and audacity, but also of often toxic masculinity and many broken dreams  

07/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Review: Totem

Review: Totem

Fred De Loof makes a gutsy comedy in the guise of a fantastical slasher, a deliciously regressive pastiche that follows a bunch of kidults who relive the Scout camp that changed their lives  

06/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Serge Mirzabekiantz • Director of Dark Heart of the Forest

Interview: Serge Mirzabekiantz • Director of Dark Heart of the Forest

“The forest brings mystery and ambivalence, which shifts the narrative”

The Belgian filmmaker tells us about his first feature, a sensitive and bewitching drama about the unexpected encounter between two wounded children searching for love  

05/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

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