Magritte (film award) / best film

Magritte : Best Film (Meilleur film)

Winner and nominee in the Best Film category (Meilleur film) since the first Belgian national film award . The best local film productions of the past cinema year are awarded. Belgian co-productions will be honored separately as Best Flemish Film in Co-Production and Best Foreign Film in Co-Production .

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the original title and the name of the director in brackets in italics.

Award winners

2011

• Mr. Nobody - Director: Jaco Van Dormael
  • Amer - Directed by Hélène Catti and Bruno Forzani
  • Illegal (Illégal) - Director: Olivier Masset-Depasse
  • Les barons - Director: Nabil Ben Yadir

2012

• Little Giants (Les géants) - Director: Bouli Lanners
  • Beyond the Steppes - Director: Vanja d'Alcantara
  • The fairy (La fée) - directed by Vicente Aranda , Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy
  • The boy with a bicycle (Le gamin au vélo) - directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

2013

• À perdre la raison - Our children (À perdre la raison) - Director: Joachim Lafosse
  • Dead Man Talking - Director: Patrick Ridremont
  • Mobile Home - Director: François Pirot
  • 38 témoins - Director: Lucas Belvaux

2014

• Ernest & Célestine (Ernest et Célestine) - directed by Stéphane Aubier , Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner
  • In the Name of the Son (Au nom du fils) - Director: Vincent Lannoo
  • Kinshasa Kids - Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg
  • Tango Libre - Director: Frédéric Fonteyne
  • Le monde nous appartient - Director: Stephan Streker

2015

• Two days, one night (Deux jours, une nuit) - directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
  • Henri - Director: Yolande Moreau
  • La Marche - Director: Nabil Ben Yadir
  • Les Rayures du zèbre - Director: Benoît Mariage
  • Pas son genre - Director: Lucas Belvaux

2016

• The Brand New Testament (Le Tout Nouveau Testament) - Director: Jaco Van Dormael
  • All cats are gray (Tous les chats sont gris) - Director: Savina Dellicour
  • I'm dead, make something of it! (Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis) - directed by Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin
  • Melodys Baby (Melody) - Director: Bernard Bellefroid
  • Préjudice - Director: Antoine Cuypers

2017

• The end is just the beginning (Les Premiers, les Derniers) - Director: Bouli Lanners
  • Keeper - Directed by Guillaume Senez
  • The economy of love (L'Économie du couple) - Director: Joachim Lafosse
  • Parasol - Mallorca im Schatten (Parasol) - Director: Valéry Rosier
  • If I say it enough times, it will come true! (Je me tue à le dire) - Director: Xavier Seron

2018

• Inside Life (Insyriated) - Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
  • Barefoot in Paris (Paris pieds nus) - directed by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
  • This is our country! (Chez nous) - Director: Lucas Belvaux
  • Dode Hoek - Director: Nabil Ben Yadir
  • Noces - Director: Stephan Streker

2019

• Nos batailles - Director: Guillaume Senez
  • Bitter Flowers - Director: Olivier Meys
  • Corpses under the burning sun (Laissez bronzer les cadavres) - directed by Hélène Catti and Bruno Forzani
  • Mon Ket - Director: François Damiens
  • Tueurs - directed by François Troukens and Jean-François Hensgens

2020

• Duels - Director: Olivier Masset-Depasse
  • Young Ahmed (Le jeune Ahmed) - Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
  • Lola vers la mer - Director: Laurent Micheli
  • Nuestras madres - Director: César Díaz
  • Seule à mon mariage - Director: Marta Bergman

Web links

• Magritte Awards website (French)