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BRIFF 2023


11 articles available in total starting from 11/05/2023. Last article published on 07/07/2023.

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Philippe Van Leeuw  • Director of The Wall

Interview: Philippe Van Leeuw • Director of The Wall

"I wanted to make a modern western"

The Belgian filmmaker spoke to us about his new movie, which paints an uncompromising portrait of a young female police officer on the border between Mexico and the USA  

07/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Pascale Bourgaux  • Director of Hawar, Our Banished Children

Interview: Pascale Bourgaux • Director of Hawar, Our Banished Children

"In times of war, the female body is a battlefield"

We met with the Belgian journalist and filmmaker to discuss her shock documentary, revolving around a female survivor who suffered twice at the hands of jihadists and her community  

07/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

The Other Laurens and Adieu sauvage three times awarded at BRIFF

The Other Laurens and Adieu sauvage three times awarded at BRIFF

The festival just announced its list of winners, generously crowning two Belgian films as successful as they are different, as well as the Australian film Limbo  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023 | Awards

Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento  • Director of Adieu sauvage

Interview: Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento • Director of Adieu sauvage

“Giving visibility to invisible people makes me deeply happy”

The young Colombia-born, Belgium-based filmmaker talks to us about his debut feature, which goes on a search for an indigenous Colombian people, and even for its own identity  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Mélanie Delloye  • Director of Nightman

Interview: Mélanie Delloye • Director of Nightman

"I wanted to work with psychological terror"

The French filmmaker introduced us to her second feature film, which is a psychological thriller set against a backdrop of Gaelic legends  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Mathieu Volpe  • Director of An Italian Youth

Interview: Mathieu Volpe • Director of An Italian Youth

“What I find most striking is this generation who lives on one continent, but whose head is always turned towards that of their parents”

The young filmmaker, born in Italy and living in Belgium, tells us about his first feature-length documentary, which follows a young Burkinese man’s repeated trips between two continents  

06/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Review: The Wall

Review: The Wall

Philippe Van Leeuw looks at the equally inscrutable and unredeemable character of racism at the heart of a US Border Patrol, embarked on a manhunt that is most of all a hunt for anyone “other”  

04/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Review: Nightman

Review: Nightman

Mélanie Delloye delivers a psychological thriller depicting the control and gaslighting tactics which wind their way into the daily life of a young couple isolated in an Irish manor house  

03/07/2023 | BRIFF 2023

Review: An Italian Youth

Review: An Italian Youth

Through the particular journey of Sokuro, a young Burkinabe man living in Italy and about to get married, Mathieu Volpe paints a nuanced and embodied portrait of South/North economic migrations  

30/06/2023 | BRIFF 2023

The 6th Brussels International Film Festival promises a jam-packed programme

The 6th Brussels International Film Festival promises a jam-packed programme

The festival’s latest edition will unspool 27 June – 6 July in the Belgian capital, with over fifty films featuring on the agenda  

07/06/2023 | BRIFF 2023

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