In these early days of summer, the Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF) is inviting Belgian film lovers to discover unmissable brand-new and classic films, shining a light on international arthouse cinema. The festival is notably organising three competitions, which achieve near gender parity overall, a feat rare enough to be mentioned here. In fact, this 7th edition of the event, unspooling between 25 June and 3 July, is set to open with the screening of Swiss filmmaker and actress Laetitia Dosch’s first feature film, Dog on Trial [+lee también:
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First up, the International Competition will take us from Argentina to Denmark by way of Corsica, and conceals several high-calibre filmmakers within its ranks, such as Yorgos Lanthimos who’ll be sharing Kinds of Kindness [+lee también:
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entrevista: Arnaud y Jean-Marie Larrieu
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As for Director’s Week, a selection dedicated to European cinema which looks to shine a light on emerging talent, seven films are in the offing. Firstly, there’s the Danish documentary The Mountains [+lee también:
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entrevista: Emilie Brisavoine
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entrevista: Laura Ferrés
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ficha de la película] by Finland’s Katia Gauriloff, homing in on the coming together of an aunt and niece. There’s also the Hispanic-Italian co-production Animal/Humano [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jean-Christophe Meurisse
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The festival is also hosting a National Competition gathering together 8 feature films. We have to remark upon the presence of three female-led documentaries in the first person in this line-up, all exploring the questions which three young women and children of exile ask themselves, in the form of D’Abdul à Leïla [+lee también:
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entrevista: Leila Albayaty
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entrevista: Samira El Mouzghibati
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entrevista: Angie Obeid
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entrevista: Alexe Poukine
ficha de la película] sees Alexe Poukine examining public hospitals and asking how nurses can themselves be kind when they’re crushed by a hostile institution. Last but not least, in Katika Bluu [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], Stéphane Vuillet and Stéphane Xhroüet follow in the footsteps of Baraka, a former child-soldier who has just been extracted from an armed group and who tries to return to his childhood, his family and his place in Goma society in the Congo.