Joachim Lafosse is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 film director

Film director

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriting

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Career

Lafosse studied at the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) at Louvain-la-Neuve

Louvain-la-Neuve

Louvain-la-Neuve is a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the French-speaking part of the country...

 between 1997 and 2001. His graduation film Tribu, a 24-minute short, won the best Belgian short subject category at the 2001 Namur Film Festival. His first full length feature, Folie Privée (2004), won the FIPRESCI

FIPRESCI

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 award at the Bratislava International Film Festival

International Film Festival Bratislava

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., and the semi-autobiographical Ça rend heureux (2006) took the Grand Prix at the 2007 Premiers Plans d'Angers

Premiers Plans

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 festival. 2006 also saw the release of Nue Propriété

Nue Propriété

-Title:Nue propriété is French for bare ownership/property, i.e., without usufruct. In the film a woman considers selling the house in which she lives with her twin sons. The sons oppose this...

, starring Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...

 and brothers Jérémie

Jérémie Renier

Jérémie Renier is a Belgian actor. He lives in Paris, France. His film debut was in the critically praised La Promesse , directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. He became better known to worldwide audiences in Brotherhood of the Wolf and L'Enfant...

 and Yannick Renier

Yannick Renier

Yannick Renier is a Belgian actor who started his career in the theatre in the 1990s and has since gone on to appear in several films and television productions.-Biography:...

, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival

63rd Venice International Film Festival

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 where it was nominated for the Golden Lion

Golden Lion

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 and won a SIGNIS award. His latest film is Élève libre.

Filmography

• 2000: Égoïste Nature (short feature)
• 2000: Tribu (short feature)
• 2001: Scarface (documentary)
• 2004: Folie Privée
• 2006: Ça rend heureux
• 2006: Nue Propriété
  Nue Propriété
  -Title:Nue propriété is French for bare ownership/property, i.e., without usufruct. In the film a woman considers selling the house in which she lives with her twin sons. The sons oppose this...
  
  
• 2008: Élève libre

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