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Competition / Belgium


129 articles available in total starting from 26/08/2002. Last article published on 18/08/2025.

Naomi Kawase • Director of Yakushima’s Illusion

Interview: Naomi Kawase • Director of Yakushima’s Illusion

“I think the sensitivity and emotions that are part of our work go beyond spoken language”

The Japanese director explains the reasons which prompted her to tell us the story of a French paediatric doctor working in Kobe, and why she chose Vicky Krieps for the role  

18/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Review: Yakushima’s Illusion

Review: Yakushima’s Illusion

Naomi Kawase brings together two thorny questions for Japanese society: organ transplants and the tens of thousands of people who mysteriously disappear every year  

15/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

Interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

"Babies added a documentary element to the shots, a permanent unknown"

CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmakers talk about their new film, in which they change the narrative paradigm by daring to tell a choral story  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: Young Mothers

Review: Young Mothers

CANNES 2025: Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne combine their cinema in the plural, always in touch with reality, its determinisms and its flashes of light  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: Alpha

Review: Alpha

CANNES 2025: Titane’s Julia Ducournau returns with an exhausting, weird AIDS parable that’s somehow not weird enough  

20/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Interview: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani • Directors of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

"We approached the story as if it were a diamond and gave it different facets"

We met with the inspired filmmaking duo to talk about their latest film effort, a frenetic and psychedelic rereading of the Hero myth  

06/03 | Luxembourg 2025

Review: Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Review: Reflection in a Dead Diamond

BERLINALE 2025: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani present a baroque spy film with some crazy twists and turns, which is both fun and exhausting  

17/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

Interview: Léonor Serraille • Director of Ari

"We’re not looking at a person, we’re with them"

BERLINALE 2025: The French director unpicks her new movie, a magnetic and organic portrait born out of a very particular working approach with students from the Conservatoire de Paris  

16/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Review: Ari

Review: Ari

BERLINALE 2025: Blending instinct, simplicity and suggestion and showing remarkable sensitivity, Léonor Serraille depicts the poignant meanderings of a gentle man living in our rough epoch  

15/02 | Berlinale 2025 | Competition

Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

Interview: Michel Hazanavicius • Director of The Most Precious of Cargoes

“Each time, you gotta do your homework”

The Academy Award-winning director talks about the wide range of his work and gives us an insight into the making of his animated film  

19/11/2024 | /France/Belgium

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