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JACO VAN DORMAELAfter studying film at the INSAS (Brussels) and the National Film School Louis Lumière (Paris), Jaco Van Dormael started his career as a director of children’s theatre plays. He then began directing short films in the early 1980s, several times awarded in festivals. His first feature film, TOTO THE HERO (1991) received the Camera d’Or at Cannes and an EFA, then called Felix, for Best Young Film, Actor, Screenwriter and Cinematographer. In parallel, Jaco Van Dormael is also a theatre and opera director.
INTERVIEW wioth Jaco van Dormael