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Competition / Belgium

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

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Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

Interview: Valentina Maurel • Director of I Have Electric Dreams

"I wanted to make a film which allows itself to be ambiguous"

The young Costa Rican director based in Belgium is presenting her first feature film, painting the portrait of a teenage girl who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of  

10/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Review: I Have Electric Dreams

Valentina Maurel delivers a troubling adolescent chronicle, carried by a heroine who discovers, in spite of herself, that adulthood is not an end in itself  

09/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Review: The Adventures of Gigi the Law

This sensitive and at times surreal depiction of a rural policeman (the director’s own uncle) marks the mighty comeback of Alessandro Comodin  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Il pataffio

Review: Il pataffio

Francesco Lagi’s movie is a ramshackle affair: occasionally strange and enjoyable, it’s mostly characterised by an irregular pace, and suffers from an overbearing film legacy  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Fairytale

Review: Fairytale

Alexandr Sokurov returns with another set of historical musings dressed as an accomplished experimental film  

08/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Review: Saturn Bowling

Review: Saturn Bowling

Patricia Mazuy presents a strident and hyper-realist thriller exploring the perversions of a patriarchal society which sees itself as invincible  

05/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Directors of Vesper

Interview: Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper • Directors of Vesper

“We’re the audience, too, after all”

We sat down with the helmers of this ambitious European sci-fi co-production, a visually astonishing tale set in a dystopian world where the Earth’s ecosystem has collapsed  

08/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Review: Vesper

Review: Vesper

After 2012’s Vanishing Waves, Lithuanian director Kristina Buožytė and French helmer Bruno Samper return with an impressive dystopian sci-fi film  

04/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch • Directors of The Eight Mountains

Interview: Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch • Directors of The Eight Mountains

"It’s not just about friendship, it’s also about finding your path, accepting death, forgiving your father for what you didn’t get from him"

CANNES 2022: The Belgian duo discuss the making, the topics and all of the details of the first film they have directed together, an adaptation of the novel by Paolo Cognetti set in Italy  

28/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Review: Close

Review: Close

CANNES 2022: Lukas Dhont confirms the depths of his sensitivity and his gift for mise en scène via a splendid second feature harnessing a whirlwind of introverted emotions  

27/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

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