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Belgium / Netherlands


188 articles available in total starting from 17/06/2005. Last article published on 14/05/2025.

Review: Binti

Review: Binti

Writer-director Frederike Migom focuses on immigrants without papers in Belgium in this charming, politically charged film aimed at children  

12/12/2019 | Films | Reviews | Belgium/Netherlands

Review: Fight Girl

Review: Fight Girl

The Netherlands’ Johan Timmers gives us a likeable film - which won the director the EFA Young Audience Award 2019 - about an angry adolescent who channels her frustrations into kick-boxing  

13/11/2019 | Arras 2019

Mary Jimenez, Bénédicte Liénard • Directors of By the Name of Tania

Interview: Mary Jimenez, Bénédicte Liénard • Directors of By the Name of Tania

"The film was born out of our relationship with reality and it took its own form"

We met with Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard, the authors and directors of By the Name of Tania which is released in Belgium on Wednesday  

23/10/2019

Jessica Woodworth  • Director of The Barefoot Emperor

Interview: Jessica Woodworth • Director of The Barefoot Emperor

“Laughter is power”

We talked to Jessica Woodworth, one of the directors of this year’s Warsaw opening film, The Barefoot Emperor, about Europe turning sour and learning how to laugh about it  

11/10/2019

Review: The Barefoot Emperor

Review: The Barefoot Emperor

The sequel to King of the Belgians is a broad, surrealistic political satire on the current state of Europe, loaded with historical references  

11/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Contemporary World Cinema

GoCritic! Interview: Tim Mielants  • Director of Patrick

GoCritic! Interview: Tim Mielants • Director of Patrick

"I used the five stages of grief as my structure: denial, anger, paranoia, depression and finally, acceptance"

GoCritic! chatted with the Belgian filmmaker whose first feature film world-premiered in Karlovy Vary Competition  

05/07/2019 | GoCritic! | Karlovy Vary 2019

Tim Mielants  • Director of Patrick

Interview: Tim Mielants • Director of Patrick

"I just like the juxtaposition between a big, romantic scope and this simple character"

Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants presented his first feature, Patrick, in competition at Karlovy Vary, and he talked to us about it  

05/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Competition

Review: Patrick

Review: Patrick

Flemish director Tim Mielants delivers an absurd and unexpected psychological thriller, led by a hero who’s tragically lacking in ambition  

02/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Competition

Review: MOTHER

Review: MOTHER

Kristof Bilsen’s beautiful doc focuses on a caregiver in Chiang Mai, Thailand, who works in a home for European Alzheimer’s sufferers  

11/06/2019 | Sheffield Doc Fest 2019

Review: Domino

Review: Domino

Cult auteur Brian De Palma continues his work in European film with this disappointing Danish police noir  

29/05/2019 | Films | Reviews

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