Laura WANDEL

A graduate of the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Belgium), Laura Wandel accompanied her graduation film, Murs (2007), to festivals around the world. She has directed two other short films, O Négatif (2011) and Les corps étrangers (2014). The latter was selected in the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. Her first feature film, Un Monde, was selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 in the Un Certain Regard section and won the FIPRESCI prize. With more than 30 awards, including Best First Film at the London Film Festival, Un Monde represented Belgium at the 2022 Oscars as one of the 15 films short-listed for the Oscar for Best International Film. "L'intérêt d'Adam", her second feature film, is being developed at the Festival’s Residence.