Benjamin Deboosere
Benjamin DEBOOSERE (1984, Belgium) makes socio-political films with a playful approach. Their work has been shown at various international film festivals, including Tallinn Black Nights (BNFF), Message to man, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Africadoc Bénin, Mecal Pro Barcelona, Brussels Art Film Festival and Achtung Berlin. Their first fiction short, Of Not Such Great Importance (2019), won the Kryzstof Szot Award at the Lublin Film Festival 2019, the Jury and Audience Award at Ongezien Kort 2020, and Best Short Film Award at Working Title Film Festival 2020. Het leven en de vreemde verrassende avonturen van Robinson Crusoe die acht en twintig jaar helemaal alleen op een bewoond eiland leefde en zei dat het van hem was (2023) is their debut feature.
Filmography
(selection) Blue Birth (2015, short doc), Of Not Such Great Importance (2019, short), Das muss man erst mal aussprechen können/Some Things Are Hard to Say (2021, short), Het leven en de vreemde verrassende avonturen van Robinson Crusoe die acht en twintig jaar helemaal alleen op een bewoond eiland leefde en zei dat het van hem was/The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe who lived for twenty and eight years all alone on an inhabited island and said it was his (2023)
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Benjamin Deboosere op IFFR
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Het leven en de vreemde verrassende avonturen van Robinson Crusoe die acht en twintig jaar helemaal alleen op een bewoond eiland leefde en zei dat het van hem was
Benjamin Deboosere | 75' | Belgium | World premiere
An incisive, singular decolonisation of the Robinson Crusoe myth, in which a goat will capture your heart. -
In the Hands of Puppets
Sarah & Charles | 9' | Belgium | None
How different is online chatting from talking to a sock puppet? A rather absurd cartoon-like animation raises issues such as self-analysis and social