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

Episode 46: Under The Naked Sky (Netherlands/Belgium)

Episode 46: Under The Naked Sky (Netherlands/Belgium)

The producers of the film by Lilian Sijbesma are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support  

02/03/2023 | The Co-production Podcast

Domien & Wendy Huyghe • Director and screenwriter of Sea Sparkle

Interview: Domien & Wendy Huyghe • Director and screenwriter of Sea Sparkle

"Writing this story was essential for us"

BERLINALE 2023: Brother and sister in real life, the director and screenwriter spoke to us about their film, which introduces younger audiences to the subject of grief  

17/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Generation

Review: Sea Sparkle

Review: Sea Sparkle

BERLINALE 2023: Presented in the opening slot of the Generation Kplus line-up, Domien Huyghe’s sensitive and ultra-topical debut movie is a brilliant and sincere coming-of-age tale about bereavement  

17/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Generation

Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

Interview: Sahim Omar Kalifa • Director of Baghdad Messi

"This story is a metaphor for the way the Iraqi dream has been annihilated"

We met with the Belgian-Kurdish director who chose to reinvent his hit, short film and turn it into a feature film  

03/02/2023 | /Belgium/Netherlands/Iraq

Review: Baghdad Messi

Review: Baghdad Messi

Sahim Omar Kalifa pleads for the preservation of the Iraqi people’s lost dreams, depicting the singular trajectory of a football-crazy little boy who’ll do anything to keep his passion afloat  

02/02/2023 | Films | Reviews | Belgium/Netherlands/Iraq

Jessica Woodworth • Director of Luka

Interview: Jessica Woodworth • Director of Luka

“Sometimes it feels like we haven’t learned anything”

We met with the Belgian-American director, who presents a free and inspired adaptation of the cult novel by Dino Buzzati  

30/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Luka

Review: Luka

Jessica Woodworth transposes the questions posed by The Desert of the Tartars into a sumptuous film, set in a post-apocalyptic future that asks us about our present  

30/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

Review: When It Melts

Review: When It Melts

In her first feature-length directorial effort, Veerle Baetens offers up a very close adaptation of Lise Spit’s novel, exploring the resurgence of our childhood traumas  

23/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Veerle Baetens • Director of When it Melts

Interview: Veerle Baetens • Director of When it Melts

"I wanted to try to understand this silence, and to help people understand it too"

The internationally renowned Flemish actress spoke to us about her first feature film, an uncompromising movie about a young woman haunted by her past  

20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for IFFR title Luka

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for IFFR title Luka

Jessica Woodworth’s new film, inspired by Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe, will shortly premiere in the Dutch gathering’s Big Screen Competition  

09/01/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Big Screen Competition

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