Magritte (film award) / Best first work

Magritte : Best first work (Magritte du meilleur premier film, initially Magritte du premier film )

Winner and nominee in the category Best First Work (Magritte du meilleur premier film) since the first award of the Belgian national film award . The award is given to the best, first film productions by a young director of the past cinema year, both domestic productions and co-productions with foreign partners.

The prize in this category was awarded for the first time in 2013. In contrast to the other Magritte categories, this was an audience award. The public chose the winner for three years, the first year by voting on the Magritte website. Since 2016, the winners in this category have also been determined by a jury of experts.

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

Award winners and nominees

2013

• Dead Man Talking - Director: Patrick Ridremont
  • The house in Corsica (Au cul du loup) - Director: Pierre Duculot
  • Couleur de peau: miel - directed by Jung and Laurent Boileau
  • De leur vivant - Director: Géraldine Doignon
  • L'Envahisseur - Director: Nicolas Provost
  • Le Grand'Tour - Director: Jérôme Le Maire
  • L'Hiver dernier - Director: John Shank
  • JC comme Jésus Christ - Director: Jonathan Zaccaï
  • Miss Mouche - Director: Bernard Halut
  • Mobile Home - Director: François Pirot
  • La Tête la première - Director: Amélie Van Elmbt
  • Torpedo - Director: Matthieu Donck

2014

• Une chanson pour ma mère - Director: Joël Franka
  • A pelada - Director: Damien Chemin
  • BXL - USA - Director: Gaëtan Bevernaege
  • Beyond the Walls (Hors les murs) - Director: David Lambert
  • Je suis supporter du Standard - Director: Riton Liebman
  • Le Sac de Farine - Director: Kadija Leclère
  • Three Children (Twa Timoun) - Director: Jonas d'Adesky

2015

• Je te survivrai - Director: Sylvestre Sbille
  • Marbie, star de Couillu-les-Deux-Églises - Director: Dominique Smeets
  • Le Vertige des possibles - Director: Vivianne Perelmuter
  • Post partum - directed by Delphine Noels
  • Puppy Love - Director: Delphine Lehericey
  • Tokyo Anyway - Director: Camille Meynard
  • Yam Dam - Director: Vivian Goffette

2016

• All cats are gray (Tous les chats sont gris) - Director: Savina Dellicour
  • L'Année Prochaine - Director: Vania Leturcq
  • Préjudice - Director: Antoine Cuypers

2017

• Keeper - Directed by Guillaume Senez
  • If I say it often enough, it will come true (Je me tue à le dire) - Director: Xavier Seron
  • Parasol - Director: Valéry Rosier

2018

• Faut pas lui dire - Director: Solange Cicurel
  • Even Lovers Get the Blues - Director: Laurent Micheli
  • Je suis resté dans les bois - directed by Michaël Bier , Erika Sainte and Vincent Solheid
  • Sonar - Director: Jean-Philippe Martin
  • Spit'n'Split - Director: Jérôme Vandewattyne

2019

• Bitter Flowers - Director: Olivier Meys
  • La Part sauvage - Director: Guérin van de Vorst
  • Tueurs - directed by François Troukens and Jean-François Hensgens
  • Une part d'ombre - Director: Samuel Tilman

2020

• Nuestras madres - Director: César Díaz
  • Cavale - Directed by Virginie Gourmel
  • Escapada - Director: Sarah Hirtt
  • For a Happy Life (Pour vivre heureux) - directed by Salima Sarah Glamine and Dimitri Linder
  • Seule à mon mariage - Director: Marta Bergman

Web links

• Magritte Awards website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Magritte du Premier film: Dead Man Winning. In: cinevox.be. May 20, 2013, accessed May 23, 2020 (French). 
2. ↑ Magritte du premier film - Jusqu'au May 1st 2013, votez et attribuez votre Magritte! ( Memento of April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (French).
3. ↑ Lancement d'un nouveau Magritte: Le Magritte du Premier Film 2013 ( Memento of October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (French).