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191 articles available in total starting from 17/06/2005. Last article published on 23/06/2025.

Review: White Cube

Review: White Cube

Renzo Martens’ much-anticipated sequel to Enjoy Poverty explores what the art world can give back to former Congolese plantation workers  

26/11/2020 | IDFA 2020

Carice van Houten and Halina Reijn • Creators of Red Light

Interview: Carice van Houten and Halina Reijn • Creators of Red Light

“The empty expressions on their faces, the women cleaning the pole with a spray: there’s nothing sexy about it”

We caught up with Carice van Houten and Halina Reijn, creators of and actresses in the Belgian-Dutch series Red Light, screened at Canneseries  

14/10/2020 | /Belgium/Netherlands

Review: Eden

Review: Eden

Hungarian filmmaker Ágnes Kocsis returns with a unique, extremely ambitious and formally accomplished film about the tough topic of loneliness in the modern world  

28/01/2020 | IFFR 2020 | Big Screen Competition

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sequel to King of the Belgians is a broad, surrealistic political satire on the current state of Europe, loaded with historical references  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

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