Director
and scriptwriter Christoph Hermans was born in Namur in 1982. In 2001
he enrolled at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium (Institute
of Media Arts). In 2005, Poids Plume,
his end of studies film, won several awards and was selected for over
twenty festivals throughout the world. In 2007, he and Xavier Seron
wrote and directed a short fiction entitled Le Crabe.
The film was notably selected for the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers
and won several awards, among which figure Best Film Award at the Namur
International Festival of French-Speaking Film and the International
Short Film Festival in Tehran. In 2008 he directed a full-length
documentary Les Parents and a second short fiction La Balançoire.
The film was selected for over thirty festivals (Molodist in Kiev,
Premiers Plans in Angers, Cinéma Tous Ecrans in Geneva, Amiens,...),
recieved ten or so awards all over the world and was nominated at the
first Magritte ceremony of Belgian cinema.
In 2010 he pursued his work with a short documentary, Etrangére,
which was selected for many prestigious festivals (Vision du Réel in
Nyon, Amiens, Ecrans Documentaries in Arcueil, The Rotterdam Festival,
Krakow,...). Christophe has just finished his third short fiction Fancy-Fair and two 52-minute documentaries Les Enfants and Corps Etranger. He is currently writing his first full-length fiction.
