Production

Guillaume Malandrin

Born

1958-03-04 (68)

Place of birth

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Known for

Production

Credits

22 titles

Guillaume Malandrin (born on March 4, 1968) is a French film director , screenwriter and producer . He moved to Brussels after his studies at INSAS in the late 1990s . When he arrived in Brussels, at INSAS, in the image section, he thought he was entering a photography school and discovered with amusement that he was being taught how to record moving images. Little by little, he got into the game, met Michel Cauléa with whom he co-wrote the screenplay for Deux ramoneurs chez une cantatrice, Vincent Tavier (Ça c'est passé près de chez vous), and assiduously frequented the front rows of the Musée du cinéma, watching two films a day for more than two years. In 1992, he directed Qui déménage, an…

Known for

Orlando poster
8.0

With an original staging of text and music, Orlando follows the trail of one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance: Orlando di Lasso (also known as Roland de Lassus). His life and masterful oeuvre continue to move people to this day. Although he was a European star at the time, di Lasso had to endure the indignities of his social status as a servant. This documentary explores the relationship between art and power, musically accompanied by the ensemble La Tempête.

Orlando

2024

Waiter poster
6.2

Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer.

Waiter

2006

The Wall poster
7.8

Jessica Comley is an American agent of the U.S. Border Patrol on the Arizona-Mexico border. In this unforgiving desert, she is proud and determined to defend America against drug traffickers and illegal immigrants by any means necessary.

The Wall

2023

In Syria poster
6.4

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

In Syria

2017

No artwork available
NR

An old man from Namur and his grandchild take part in a live radio show. Maxime Cottin, a writer and town celebrity has just published a new book. He is asked to narrate a story about the day he turned ten years old. The memories and images conjured up by the story induce a strange tension between the two men.

Storytelling

2001

A Town Called Panic poster
7.5

Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

A Town Called Panic

2009

Behind the camera

Orlando poster
8.0

With an original staging of text and music, Orlando follows the trail of one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance: Orlando di Lasso (also known as Roland de Lassus). His life and masterful oeuvre continue to move people to this day. Although he was a European star at the time, di Lasso had to endure the indignities of his social status as a servant. This documentary explores the relationship between art and power, musically accompanied by the ensemble La Tempête.

Orlando

2024

Waiter poster
6.2

Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day after he is mistreated by some customers he is sick of it all and goes to talk to his creator, the scenario writer.

Waiter

2006

The Wall poster
7.8

Jessica Comley is an American agent of the U.S. Border Patrol on the Arizona-Mexico border. In this unforgiving desert, she is proud and determined to defend America against drug traffickers and illegal immigrants by any means necessary.

The Wall

2023

In Syria poster
6.4

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

In Syria

2017

No artwork available
NR

An old man from Namur and his grandchild take part in a live radio show. Maxime Cottin, a writer and town celebrity has just published a new book. He is asked to narrate a story about the day he turned ten years old. The memories and images conjured up by the story induce a strange tension between the two men.

Storytelling

2001

No artwork available
NR

An old man from Namur and his grandchild take part in a live radio show. Maxime Cottin, a writer and town celebrity has just published a new book. He is asked to narrate a story about the day he turned ten years old. The memories and images conjured up by the story induce a strange tension between the two men.

Storytelling

2001

A Town Called Panic poster
7.5

Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

A Town Called Panic

2009

I'm Dead But I Have Friends poster
6.1

Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour ...

I'm Dead But I Have Friends

2015

No artwork available
NR

A man just released from prison wants to go on vacation with his son and the mother of his child.

I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes

2006

Kill Me Please poster
6.3

Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.

Kill Me Please

2010

God's Offices poster
6.5

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

God's Offices

2008

Jules & Juliette poster
NR

Jules and Juliette go to the beach. They carry the dinghy on their heads with which they intend to sail. It's already quite a deal. Of course, Jules is clumsy and doesn't fail to play the fool. The beach is deserted. It's going to be a bright day full of laughter and connivance.

Jules & Juliette

2022

No artwork available
NR

It's the middle of the summer. Frank is spending the night out with his friends, as usual. But this time, by morning, things are not quite the same anymore

Valentine

2018

No artwork available
NR

Blamed by her father for failing to meet his expectations of being a good cheerleader and scorned by her sister for being too childish, Lucie is drawn to the attention of an attractive boy who promises her a night of excitement and revelry. Entranced by his charm, Lucie soon discovers that the young man is, in fact, the devil in disguise. Under his influence, she signs a pact and becomes a "Macrale"—a witch endowed with dark powers in the Walloon tradition. At first, Lucie revels in her newfound abilities, intoxicated by the freedom and strength they bring. However, her initial excitement quickly turns to despair as her dream transforms into a nightmare. Bound by the devil's pact and alienated from her family and friends, Lucie must use her cunning and determination to fight for her freedom and reclaim her place in the world.

Lucie's Frightful Adventures

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Public Baths poster
NR

Doucmentary depicting the goings on in a public bathhouse in the Brussels neighborhood the Marolles.

Public Baths

2018

No artwork available
NR

A global scoop shakes the most select circles of art galleries: it has just discovered the existence of an heir of Vincent Van Gogh. The surprising thing is that the man is a Belgian descendant of Italians, a gray and anodyne guy that responds to the name of Emilio Saltarelli. Suddenly, his ex-wife, the museums of half the world and even a perfidious Chinese art collector will dispute his company.

In Search of Emilio Saltarelli

2015

No artwork available
NR

A global scoop shakes the most select circles of art galleries: it has just discovered the existence of an heir of Vincent Van Gogh. The surprising thing is that the man is a Belgian descendant of Italians, a gray and anodyne guy that responds to the name of Emilio Saltarelli. Suddenly, his ex-wife, the museums of half the world and even a perfidious Chinese art collector will dispute his company.

In Search of Emilio Saltarelli

2015

No artwork available
NR

An opera singer rehearses with her pianist while a pair of chimney sweeps work next door with a blaring vacuum cleaner.

Deux Ramoneurs Chez Une Cantatrice

1992

Hand of the Headless Man poster
5.0

Eva, a 25-year-old woman, is an Olympic diver: a champion. Her father, Peter, is her coach. During a competition, Eva climbs up to the 10-meter platform. She leaps off when suddenly she sees a shadow in the pool. Terrified by this vision, Eva suddenly loses her balance, her head hits the diving board, and she falls. Blackout. When Eva regains consciousness, she is in the hospital. Naturally, her father is at her bedside. For him, the accident is already in the past: the Olympic Games are approaching, and it is essential not to miss the qualifiers. But Eva doesn't see it that way. The accident has changed her and her life. While she was in a coma, her brother disappeared. So she decides to force her memory to remember, to break through the wall of silence her father has built around her. Eva will emerge from this experience deeply shaken. So will her family, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Hand of the Headless Man

2007

Like a Cloud poster
NR

Elena, a nursery school teacher and mother of two grown children, lends her voice to a character in an animated film. Leaving the studio, she gets stuck in an airlock with Mathieu, the sound engineer…

Like a Cloud

2024

No artwork available
NR

August 4, 2020, the port of Beirut explodes. Four years later, Lélia, 17, prepares to leave to study in the United States and has to leave everything behind, her girlfriend, her country, and her family. As an upcoming war looms over their every moment, we spend six days in Beirut with four women caught in the whirlwind of life, between joy and melancholy, traditions and the hope of renewal.

May You Outlive Us

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A Big Wall poster
NR

A tormented astrophysicist and his brother, a wacky insurance broker, set out on a journey to sell a piece of land they've inherited from their enigmatic father.

A Big Wall

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