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REPORT: BRIFF 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 8th Brussels International Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: BRIFF 2025

13 articles available in total starting from 12/06/2025. Last article published on 30/06/2025.

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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo and Kika walk away with top prizes at the BRIFF

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo and Kika walk away with top prizes at the BRIFF

The 8th Brussels International Film Festival has wrapped with the unveiling of its winners’ list, on which Diego Céspedes and Alexe Poukine’s movies reign supreme  

30/06 | BRIFF 2025 | Awards

Olivier Meys • Director of Jahia’s Summer

Interview: Olivier Meys • Director of Jahia’s Summer

"The idea wasn’t to make a propaganda film, but to lend real human form to asylum requests"

The Belgian director spoke to us about his sensitive portrayal of a young female asylum seeker who’s living her life in limbo and whose fate changes through the beauty of friendship  

27/06 | BRIFF 2025

Review: To Meet Again

Review: To Meet Again

Thomas Damas presents his first feature-length doc, which delves into a mobile unit hosting families whose members have been temporarily separated by public institutions  

27/06 | BRIFF 2025

Valéry Rosier • Director of Rano

Interview: Valéry Rosier • Director of Rano

“Water represents the characters’ feminine side, a side they have to learn to embrace as the story advances”

The Belgian filmmaker chatted to us about his new movie, which is co-directed by Farellia Tahina Venance and which focuses on two grieving characters in a dual sensorial and aquatic story  

25/06 | BRIFF 2025

Eve Duchemin • Director of Petit Rempart

Interview: Eve Duchemin • Director of Petit Rempart

"The aim is to help these homeless women, but we’re also making them weaker"

The director chatted with us about her intense yet brilliant portrayal of a woman who finds refuge in an emergency shelter following a brutal change in circumstances  

25/06 | BRIFF 2025

Review: Road 190

Review: Road 190

Charlotte Nastasi and Emilie Cornu deliver a gripping chronicle of life in Texas's “city of eight prisons”, where the shadow of the executions still being carried out there looms large  

25/06 | BRIFF 2025

Jean-Pascal Zadi • Director of Black to the Future

Interview: Jean-Pascal Zadi • Director of Black to the Future

"I wanted to write science fiction, but from a new perspective: African and environmental"

The actor-director talks to us about his adventure comedy, which imagines that the race to conquer space is led by a crew trained and financed in Africa  

25/06 | BRIFF 2025

Lucas Belvaux • Director of The Haunted Minds

Interview: Lucas Belvaux • Director of The Haunted Minds

"Genre allows you to smuggle ideas in, to tell stories about society without appearing to do so"

The Belgian filmmaker talks to us about his latest film, the story of a disturbing manhunt that ventures into metaphysical reflections on life  

24/06 | BRIFF 2025

Guérin Van de Vorst, Sophie Muselle • Co-directors of On the Edge

Interview: Guérin Van de Vorst, Sophie Muselle • Co-directors of On the Edge

"We wanted the film to be an immersive experience from the viewpoint of our heroine in the heart of a psychiatric hospital"

The co-directors chatted with us about their story of a young trainee psychiatric nurse thrust into the beating heart of this institution, who learns about the brutality of the system first-hand  

23/06 | BRIFF 2025

Review: Rano

Review: Rano

Valéry Rosier returns with a film co-directed by Farellia Tahina Venance, an aquatic escapade about two drifting souls in Madagascar  

23/06 | BRIFF 2025

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