Directing

Quentin Noirfalisse

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Quentin Norfalisse is a freelance journalist for numerous publications (Le Soir, L’Express, Notre Afrique, AlterEchos, Slate.fr, etc.) and co-founder of the Belgian investigative magazine Medor (medor.coop) since 2014. Since 2014, he has produced and directed investigative documentaries, particularly on the Congo, through his company Dancing Dog Productions. In 2017, he directed *The Minister of Trash* (75 min) for RTBF Arte Belgium and Al Jazeera, which was selected for FESPACO and DOK Leipzig. In 2022, he co-directed *Cobalt, the Other Side of the Electric Dream* with Arnaud Zajtman.

Known for

Juwaa poster
NR

Amani was 10 years old when he was separated from his mother Riziki after a traumatic night in Kinshasa. He was 20 when he arrived in Brussels to find her and continue his studies. Amani is haunted by the past. Riziki avoids talking about it as she now lives in a relationship with Raphaël. More passionate about art than his studies, Amani abandons them and drifts. Refusing to take the first step towards his mother, he flees the house and forms new friendships to end up under the wing of a car dealer. But his resentment turns against him, against the young woman he covets and ends up hindering the business of his new friends.

Juwaa

2021

Élever au grain poster
NR

A poultry farmer from father to son, Étienne has also made a name for himself as a motorcycle racer. All this leaves little time for family life. As he struggles to save his poultry farm from an uncertain future and illness catches up with him, his daughter Alice returns to the farm to help him and begin a dialogue that is long overdue.

Élever au grain

2026

PFAS: An Everyday Poison poster
10.0

This film investigates and raises awareness about the perennial pollutants PFAS, present in many everyday products, including beauty products, clothing, and kitchen utensils. .

PFAS: An Everyday Poison

2026

Uprooted - Five Women Against a Colonial Crime poster
NR

Five Congolese women testify about their traumatic past, marked by violence. Kidnapped as children because they are of mixed ancestry, robbed of their rights and identity, and abandoned after Congo's independence, they decide to break their silence. They file a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity.

Uprooted - Five Women Against a Colonial Crime

2026

Breathless poster
5.0

Following the deaths of his father and many others from his village, filmmaker Daniel Lambo sets off on a passionate quest to find the truth about the deadly asbestos industry. His search takes him to the largest asbestos waste dump in India and unveils a cold-blooded industry still endangering the lives of workers and consumers around the world. A gripping story on the fight of individuals against a booming asbestos industry.

Breathless

2018

Lumumba, return of a hero poster
NR

61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a nationalist leader who intended to use his country's enormous wealth for the benefit of his people. He became the first Prime Minister in the history of Congo on June 30, 1960, when the country gained its independence after 80 years of Belgian colonial rule. Seven months later, he was assassinated in Katanga province with two of his best political allies: Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. Their bodies were dissolved in sulfuric acid and only one of Patrice Lumumba's teeth remained. This "relic" was taken from Lumumba's corpse and kept in secret by a police commissioner until his death in 2000. The assassination of the nationalist and anti-colonialist leader was followed by the advent of the dictator Mobutu, who was able to remain in place until 1997, thanks to Western support.

Lumumba, return of a hero

2023

Behind the camera

Juwaa poster
NR

Amani was 10 years old when he was separated from his mother Riziki after a traumatic night in Kinshasa. He was 20 when he arrived in Brussels to find her and continue his studies. Amani is haunted by the past. Riziki avoids talking about it as she now lives in a relationship with Raphaël. More passionate about art than his studies, Amani abandons them and drifts. Refusing to take the first step towards his mother, he flees the house and forms new friendships to end up under the wing of a car dealer. But his resentment turns against him, against the young woman he covets and ends up hindering the business of his new friends.

Juwaa

2021

Élever au grain poster
NR

A poultry farmer from father to son, Étienne has also made a name for himself as a motorcycle racer. All this leaves little time for family life. As he struggles to save his poultry farm from an uncertain future and illness catches up with him, his daughter Alice returns to the farm to help him and begin a dialogue that is long overdue.

Élever au grain

2026

PFAS: An Everyday Poison poster
10.0

This film investigates and raises awareness about the perennial pollutants PFAS, present in many everyday products, including beauty products, clothing, and kitchen utensils. .

PFAS: An Everyday Poison

2026

PFAS: An Everyday Poison poster
10.0

This film investigates and raises awareness about the perennial pollutants PFAS, present in many everyday products, including beauty products, clothing, and kitchen utensils. .

PFAS: An Everyday Poison

2026

Uprooted - Five Women Against a Colonial Crime poster
NR

Five Congolese women testify about their traumatic past, marked by violence. Kidnapped as children because they are of mixed ancestry, robbed of their rights and identity, and abandoned after Congo's independence, they decide to break their silence. They file a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity.

Uprooted - Five Women Against a Colonial Crime

2026

Breathless poster
5.0

Following the deaths of his father and many others from his village, filmmaker Daniel Lambo sets off on a passionate quest to find the truth about the deadly asbestos industry. His search takes him to the largest asbestos waste dump in India and unveils a cold-blooded industry still endangering the lives of workers and consumers around the world. A gripping story on the fight of individuals against a booming asbestos industry.

Breathless

2018

Lumumba, return of a hero poster
NR

61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a nationalist leader who intended to use his country's enormous wealth for the benefit of his people. He became the first Prime Minister in the history of Congo on June 30, 1960, when the country gained its independence after 80 years of Belgian colonial rule. Seven months later, he was assassinated in Katanga province with two of his best political allies: Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. Their bodies were dissolved in sulfuric acid and only one of Patrice Lumumba's teeth remained. This "relic" was taken from Lumumba's corpse and kept in secret by a police commissioner until his death in 2000. The assassination of the nationalist and anti-colonialist leader was followed by the advent of the dictator Mobutu, who was able to remain in place until 1997, thanks to Western support.

Lumumba, return of a hero

2023

Lumumba, return of a hero poster
NR

61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a nationalist leader who intended to use his country's enormous wealth for the benefit of his people. He became the first Prime Minister in the history of Congo on June 30, 1960, when the country gained its independence after 80 years of Belgian colonial rule. Seven months later, he was assassinated in Katanga province with two of his best political allies: Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. Their bodies were dissolved in sulfuric acid and only one of Patrice Lumumba's teeth remained. This "relic" was taken from Lumumba's corpse and kept in secret by a police commissioner until his death in 2000. The assassination of the nationalist and anti-colonialist leader was followed by the advent of the dictator Mobutu, who was able to remain in place until 1997, thanks to Western support.

Lumumba, return of a hero

2023

Lumumba, return of a hero poster
NR

61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a nationalist leader who intended to use his country's enormous wealth for the benefit of his people. He became the first Prime Minister in the history of Congo on June 30, 1960, when the country gained its independence after 80 years of Belgian colonial rule. Seven months later, he was assassinated in Katanga province with two of his best political allies: Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. Their bodies were dissolved in sulfuric acid and only one of Patrice Lumumba's teeth remained. This "relic" was taken from Lumumba's corpse and kept in secret by a police commissioner until his death in 2000. The assassination of the nationalist and anti-colonialist leader was followed by the advent of the dictator Mobutu, who was able to remain in place until 1997, thanks to Western support.

Lumumba, return of a hero

2023

Le Ministre des poubelles poster
6.3

As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), enters the last portion of his life. Having sacrificed everything for his art, he stubbornly tries to carry on with his work and secure his legacy for future generations.

Le Ministre des poubelles

2017

Le Ministre des poubelles poster
6.3

As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), enters the last portion of his life. Having sacrificed everything for his art, he stubbornly tries to carry on with his work and secure his legacy for future generations.

Le Ministre des poubelles

2017

Marion ou la métamorphose poster
9.0

Marion is an artist with FSH, an incurable muscular myopathy. She guides us on the path she has taken to no longer identify with her illness.

Marion ou la métamorphose

2024

Cobalt Rush: The Future of Going Green poster
9.0

The electric car holds the promise of a clean ecological transition. The global automotive market is focusing its efforts on competitive production, the key to which is the exploitation of the blue gold: cobalt. Cobalt is a mineral that is needed for batteries, which are mainly found in the Congo. But at what price?

Cobalt Rush: The Future of Going Green

2022

After the rain poster
3.0

It’s the story of a flood. This is the story of a crisis. The scar left by the 2021 floods in the Vesdre and Ourthe valleys is still there. When it rains, the drops remind us of the dead and the rubble. How to rebuild yourself? From the daily lives of victims followed over a long period of time to the visions of the future of town planners responsible for proposing solutions, After the Rain tells the story of the aftermath of the deadliest climate disaster in Belgian history.

After the rain

2024

Auroville: L'esquisse d'un monde poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Auroville: L'esquisse d'un monde

2009

Une vie en rose poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Une vie en rose

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