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Competition / Belgium


127 articles available in total starting from 26/08/2002. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Review: The Rye Horn

Review: The Rye Horn

Jaione Camborda weaves a tale of motherhood, sisterhood and life-saving escape, which is elevated by the sensitivity she instils in every single detail  

29/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: The Successor

Review: The Successor

French director Xavier Legrand stresses that Father's Day is not exactly his favourite celebration with this brutal yet elegant film  

27/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Joachim Lafosse  • Director of A Silence

Interview: Joachim Lafosse • Director of A Silence

“The venom of crime spreads by creating shame, silence and guilt”

The Belgian director’s film looks at the role played by silence in cases of child abuse  

26/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Review: A Silence

Review: A Silence

Joachim Lafosse explores in depth the silencing mechanisms around situations of sexual violence, particularly within families  

25/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Clip for Toronto and San Sebastián entry The Rye Horn

EXCLUSIVE: Clip for Toronto and San Sebastián entry The Rye Horn

Selected for both the Platform and the Golden Shell competition, the second film by Jaione Camborda follows a woman on the run in Francoist Spain  

09/09/2023 | Toronto 2023/San Sebastián 2023

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

Interview: Fien Troch • Director of Holly

“My strength has to do with making people wonder what’s real and what’s not”

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director keeps viewers guessing in her new film, about a shy girl who may or may not have mysterious powers  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Holly

Review: Holly

VENICE 2023: Belgian director Fien Troch offers a fantastic escape in all meanings of the word in the mysterious lands of faith and peer pressure  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Green Border

Review: Green Border

VENICE 2023: Polish leading light Agnieszka Holland returns with an adroit look at Belarus’s disruption of her country’s and the EU’s immigration policies  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Io Capitano

Review: Io Capitano

VENICE 2023: Focusing on two African teenagers’ voyage to Europe, Matteo Garrone maintains his usual formal rigour but does not give the viewer a true impression of the horrors of migration  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Red Island

Review: Red Island

Robin Campillo puts decolonisation through a very subtle sieve in a film about a family and the French military presence in Madagascar  

30/05/2023 | France/Belgium

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