Belgian director Leni Huyghe just premiered her debut feature, Real Faces, at SXSW 2025 (where I reviewed it). The film follows its two protagonists, Julia (Leonie Buysse) and Eliot (Gorges Ocloo), as they separately and together navigate conflicts on their […]

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(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, ran March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great coverage like Chris Reed’s Real Faces movie review. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As Real Faces, Belgian director Leni Huyghe’s debut […]

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Back at the New York Film Festival I was taken by the description of Bas Devos’ film Here as I was looking through the program lineup. It read something like:   “HERE – 2023 – Belgium Dutch, French, Romanian, and […]

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One of the most soothing, captivating movie experiences of the year will surely be Bas Devos’ Here. His first film since 2019’s Ghost Tropic and set in his native Belgium, it revolves around a bond between a Romanian construction worker […]

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