Ryuhei Kitamura’s unique visual style has brought him international recognition as one of the entertainment industry’s… +
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Together with Paul Verhoeven, he is probably the best-known Dutch film director. The cheekiest too. And… +
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Paul Feig is a DGA-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer, producer, and author, known for his signature… +
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Despite his extraordinary talent, New Yorker Barry Sonnenfeld never really intended to direct. The Coen brothers’… +
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In 1986 NOMADS premiered at the BIFFF. This first feature of a certain John McTiernan already… +
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With a master’s degree in Languages and Literature in hand, Véronique Jadin trained on the job… +
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Vanya Peirani-Vignes always loved to watch movies and tell stories. He decided to transform his passion… +
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Sylvia Caminer is making her narrative feature debut as a director with the thriller FOLLOW HER…. +
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Steffen Geypens is a Belgian director known for BOS, winner of the ‘Oblique Grand Prix’ at… +
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Simon Rieth was born in Paris on September 24th 1995 and grew up in Montpellier. At… +
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Sabrina Jaglom is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. She recently directed the feature… +
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Peter Meister (Bonn, 1987°) studied film science, literature and philosophy in Mainz and started working as… +
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Nico van den Brink (1986) studied film at the University of Amsterdam and directing at the… +
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Argentine director and producer. He directed ABRAKADABRA, WHAT THE WATERS LEFT BEHIND and A NIGHT OF… +
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Canadian born Nathan Frankowski is an award-winning film director who got his start in documentaries where… +
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Mario is a director who turns his creativity into ideas for advertising, film, theater and animation…. +
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After his 2016 M.A. thesis project, the spec-trailer LASEPOPE, Lukas Rinker started freelancing as an auteur-for-hire… +
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A fifth-generation successor to PILI Glove Puppetry (Budaixi), Liang Hsun Huang is currently the general manager… +
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Laurenzo Vergeynst is a twenty year old passionate Belgian self-taught filmmaker. At the age of eighteen,… +
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Born in 1986 in Guadalajara, Spain, Laura Galán is an actress who began her training in… +
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Director KIM Ji-hoon created a new standard of Korean disaster films with The Tower, which depicted… +
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Karim Ouelhaj is a writer, director and producer. His first feature film, PARABOLA, was noticed in… +
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The two childhood friends who live in Bern, Switzerland have been realizing various film and video… +
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Jake West has a degree in Film and Video (West Surrey College of Art & Design)… +
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In 2001, Hans Herbots directed his first feature film, FALLING, based on the book “Vallen” by… +
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Kane Senes is an award-winning filmmaker from Sydney, Australia. His 2009 short film Forfeit of Grace… +
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Hannah Barlow is an actor, filmmaker and visual artist from Sydney, Australia. After graduating from the… +
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Gabriele Mainetti (Rome, 1976) is a director, actor, composer, and cinema producer. After his two shorts,… +
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FRED DE LOOF is a Belgian actor, director and screenwriter. Being Belgian, he drinks beer, eats… +
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François Descraques is a director and screenwriter. He is the creator of the series LE VISITEUR… +
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Florent Dorin (Paris, 1985°) is a French actor and musician. He is mainly known for playing… +
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He has made over thirty short films, exploring a wide variety of narratives and characters. His… +
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Abel Ernest Tembo made a few short films during his film studies before launching himself as… +
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Dominique Milano Hassid was born in Rome in 1967. His mother was an actress working at… +
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Dani is Canadian born from the small town Salmon Arm. She is an actor, writer, producer… +
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Director Park Dae-min is one of Korea’s leading storyteller who is recognized for contributing to the… +
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Conor studied filmmaking at the Irish National Film School in Dublin. He is a writer and… +
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Christian Tafdrup graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2003. As an actor… +
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Brandon Gotto is a young Belgian director with a passion for transgressive and corrosive films. His… +
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It was in his mother’s womb that Benjamin made the, probably unconscious decision, to become an… +
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Arno Pluquet (born in 1986, in Tournai) is a self-taught Belgian director, scriptwriter and actor. He… +
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Anthony Hayles studied film at the prestigious Goldsmiths University in London before writing and producing the… +
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British actress Alice Lucy makes her film debut in MAD HEIDI. She grew up in Spain… +
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Aaron is the head of the boutique genre studio Paper Street Pictures, where he has written,… +
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Ed Speleers can next be seen in the Starz! series OUTLANDER. Prior to beginning work on… +
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Having swept the best new director awards in 2013 with his feature film debut THE TERROR,… +
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Director, screenwriter, and composer Antonio Tublén made a series of short films before shooting ORIGINAL, his… +
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In 2008, the BIFFF team came across THE CHASER and, to be fair, there was quiet… +
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Very few show such a natural talent for comedy as this director from Barcelona, who made… +
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Olga Gorodetskaya (Moscow, 1983°) graduated with a major in Directing, Cinema and TV. In 2005 she… +
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At the age of 7, Simon Abkarian followed his parents to Lebanon where he learned the… +
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After attending the ESRA (Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) film school in Paris and obtaining a… +
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Alexandra Bortich was born in 1994 in Svetlogorsk, Belarus and grew up in Moscow. During her… +
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Christian Volckman is a screen writer, a film director, and a painter. In 1999, his short… +
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Director, designer and multimedia artist Jacopo Rondinelli starts his career at the beginning of the 90’s,… +
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Cameron Macgowan is a Canadian filmmaker whose eccentric films have explored subjects ranging from murderous suburbanites… +
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Growing up together, Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund shared a passion for film that began with… +
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Growing up together, Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund shared a passion for film that began with… +
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– 28th March 1986, Brussels: the day I was born. That’s when everything began. A “once… +
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LIM Kyung-tack (1970°) majored in Theatre & Film at Hanyang University. Since then he participated to… +
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After graduating junior high school in Japan, Shugo Fuji moved to New York, where he studied… +
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Arno Pluquet (Tournai, 1986°) is a self-taught Belgian director, scriptwriter and actor. He first directs two… +
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Jelle Stroo lives and works in Brussels as a director and editor. LA DEUXIEME is his… +
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Ben is a screenwriter, director, and producer with a large portfolio ranging from comedy and horror… +
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From his first feature film, CAUSA EFECTO (2001), Hernán Findling has been participating in festivals around… +
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Considered a giant of global cinema, Udo Kier is a real chameleon who slides through all… +
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With his one meter 98, this native of the country of a thousand lakes is part… +
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Yoav and Doron Paz started working in the film industry at an early age. After graduating… +
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Yoav and Doron Paz started working in the film industry at an early age. After graduating… +
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Paul Young (1985°) has an American father and a Japanese mother. His graduation film at the… +
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For 15 years, Søren worked in the outer circle of Danish film production as a producer… +
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Gerard Quinto (Manresa, 1978) is a film critic for La Vanguardia newspaper and author of numerous… +
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Belgian director Mathieu Mortelmans, a graduate of the IAD film school, has directed two documentary series… +
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Twelve years ago, Adam and Zach took part in the TV reality game show ON THE… +
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Jerome Collette Jérôme Collette has worked for Ubisoft for over 20 years as a game designer,… +
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A graduate of a Master’s degree in cinema, French-Moroccan director Talal Selhami began his career by… +
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Director, screenwriter, maker of feature and documentary films. Graduate of the Lodz Film School Direction Department…. +
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Christian Bontinckx Christian Bontinckx (Brussels, 1954°) has a degree in psychological & pedagogical studies from the… +
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Quarxx, a hyperactive and passionate multimedia artist, expresses his creativity through photography, painting and cinema. Quarxx… +
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Director LEE Hae-young first distinguished himself as a screenwriter with a gift for fresh storytelling in… +
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Already at the age of 11, Jean-Luc Couchard imitated his family and had fun designing sketches… +
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Jeremy Kasten is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best known for his visceral,… +
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Steve Johnson – Chairman Texan through and through, Steve Johnson grew up with the Universal monsters… +
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To all the bigot parents that censor every little television program, except for Sunday mass: here… +
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Karin, originally from Holstebro in the Danish countryside, plays the “simple girl” Belinda in FINALE. Karin… +
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Anne Bergfeld was raised among the Danish minority in Germany’s Flensburg and graduated from Sønderborg State… +
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Benedicte Bourgois Since 2006 she’s been the head of RTBF Short Film Acquisitions, more specifically for… +
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Fred Castadot Author and scriptwriter Fred Castodot has a degree in Art History and Cinematographic Analysis… +
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Tony D’Aquino is an Australian writer and director. In another life, Tony was briefly a brewer… +
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Esteve Soler (Barcelona, 1976) is one of the most translated and performed Spanish playwrights of his… +
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Wi Ding Ho is a Malaysia-born and Taiwan-based filmmaker. His feature debut PINOY SUNDAY won a… +
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His debut feature DARKLANDS won the 1997 Melies D’Argent for Best European Fantasy Film, sparking a… +
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Patrick Duynslaegher Born in 1953 in Ghent. Was Knack Focus’s film editor from 1972 to 2000… +
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Grégory Cavinato Grégory Cavinato was born in 1976 in Huy but has been living in Brussels… +
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Arno Pluquet (1986°, Tournai) is a self-taught director, screenwriter and actor. He kicked off his career… +
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Andrés Goteira hails from Galicia, Spain. He studied telecommunication engineering in Vigo and sound design in… +
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Adolfo Kolmerer (Caracas, Venezuela, 1986) graduated as a computer scientist, but that was not really the… +
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After a theater degree at the IAD, Alexandre Drouet starts writing and directing. His love for… +
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This die-hard fan has been a BIFFF-regular since the 2nd edition. He’s crazy enough to… +
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Guy Astic is director of the Tous Courts d’Aix-en-Provence festival. He also teaches film studies at… +
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Studied literture and cinema at the University of Paris VIII. Since 2006, head of Sales and… +
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Born in Tournai on June 20th 1950, a painter and a sculptor, he is one of… +
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Gökhan’s early fascination with movies was encouraged by his father, who took him to Sunday Matinées,… +
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After working for 5 years as marketing manager at the Cinéart movie distribution company, Gilles Reunis… +
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François Stassens is the head of the SABAM’s audiovisual department. His mission is to be the… +
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Born in 1954, Christian Bontinckx studied psychology, pedagogy and cinematography at the ULB in Brussels…. +
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Since 2006 she’s been the head of the RTBF’s Short Films Acquisitions and TV shows, especially… +
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Not only is she from Brussels, she’s alto multi-talented. This niece of Marguerite Yourcenar was only… +
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In 1971, Kaufman met his future partner Michael Herz at Yale. The Troma Universe was born… +
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After attending a one-man show in Paris, Laurent Lucas got addicted to theatre. It didn’t take… +
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It’s fascinating to follow Julia Ducournau’s trajectory which led to her feature debut Grave. As the… +
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Mathieu Mortelmans (1985°) is a bilingual Belgian film director. Besides his internationally awarded shorts Chambre Double… +
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Pascal Vandelanoitte is a film historian. He obtained a Ph. D. in Social Sciences – Film… +
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Koen Monserez (1968) is a Flemish actor and director. Since February 2017 he’s also a programmer… +
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Gaetan Delferiere is a scriptwriter for TV-series (Champion, Fils de, Les enfants de la forêt), a… +
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Belgian actor Michel Nabokoff (1973°) is indeed the great-nephew of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. The latter… +
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Jean-Yves Roubin founded FraKas Productions in 2007. The company is active in development and international co-productions…. +
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Born in Paris of a Spanish mother and a Cameroonian father, Marie moved to Belgium in… +
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Oliver Imfeld, born in Switzerland from a Swiss mother and a Dutch father, left his native… +
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Since 2001, Philippe Logie has been running the Acquisitions Department of the Belgian pay-channel Be TV… +
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