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

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

Review: Dark Heart of the Forest

Review: Dark Heart of the Forest

Serge Mirzabekiantz delivers a feature debut that is sensitive and bewitching, about two lost souls who are looking for love but are not sure what kind  

04/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Jessica Woodworth is adapting Dino Buzzati’s masterpiece to give us Luka

Jessica Woodworth is adapting Dino Buzzati’s masterpiece to give us Luka

The director is offering up a rereading of The Tartar Steppe which she is currently shooting in Sicily and which stars Jonas Smulders and Geraldine Chaplin in its cast  

30/08/2021 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Italy/the Netherlands/Bulgaria/Armenia

Domien Huyghe is shooting his first feature film Sea Sparkle

Domien Huyghe is shooting his first feature film Sea Sparkle

The young Flemish director has just started filming this highly personal story in Ostend, co-written with his sister Wendy Huyghe  

24/08/2021 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Netherlands

The Brussels International Film Festival boasts a jam-packed programme for its 4th edition

The Brussels International Film Festival boasts a jam-packed programme for its 4th edition

Pushed back to the beginning of September as a result of the pandemic, BRIFF is returning with a rich and varied line-up, open to the general public and professionals alike  

19/08/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Robin Pront kicks off filming on Zillion

Robin Pront kicks off filming on Zillion

The young Flemish director returns six years after his first feature film The Ardennes in the company of rising Belgian actor Matteo Simoni  

19/08/2021 | Production | Funding | Belgium

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