Look, we don’t pretend to represent Belgian cinema. There are so many different kinds of Belgian films, look at The Broken Circle Breakdown of Felix Van Groeningen or at a surrealist film maker like Jaco Van Dormael. Everybody does something else. Do we make Belgian films? No, but our films do belong to Belgian cinema. (Luc Dardenne, in ‘No we don’t make Belgian Films’, in: De Standaard. May 10, 2014).
What, if anything, is Belgium?
Brussel – Bruxelles – Brussels
De kust – la côte – the coast
Gent – Gand – Ghent
Antwerpen – Anvers – Antwerp
Wallonie – La Wallonie – Wallonia
La campagne – het platteland – the countryside
hors-champs
At the museum
The Great War at 16f/s
In a faraway land… (Belgian) Congo