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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Maaike Neuville

Maaike NEUVILLE (1983, Belgium) is a theatre and film actress, film director and author. She directed her first short film Perfect Darkness in 2017 which was nominated for an Ensor Award. Neuville participated in the multi co-directed project yours, (2023), selected for IFFR 2024.

Filmography

(selection) Sonnet 81 (2013, short), Perfect Darkness (2016, short), Mourning Diary (2017, short), yours, (2023, co-dir)

Maaike Neuville op IFFR

  • yours,

    Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Maaike Neuville | 82' | Belgium | World premiere (festival)

    A tender love letter consisting of five works dedicated to the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
  • Ghost Tropic

    Bas Devos | 85' | Belgium | None

    During a nocturnal walk through Brussels, Khadija undergoes a series of dreamlike encounters with an eclectic range of night owls.
  • Lili

    An van. Dienderen | 10' | Belgium | European premiere

    Women with a perfect Caucasian skin are filmed beside a colour chart to set the colour balance: exoticism or racism? They are ‘Lilis’ or ‘China…
  • Zagros

    Sahim Omar Kalifa | 102' | Belgium | None

    Love and family loyalty, honour and jealousy, migration and cultural alienation come together in this gripping drama in which a young Kurdish shepherd