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Thierry Michel, the indefatigable globe trotter. Always anxious to find out about the wide world, the Belgian director has already explored, through documentary or fiction, Morocco and its people (Issue de secours 1987)), Brazilian favelas (Gosses de Rio (1990), the culture of Zaire (Zaïre, le cycle du serpent (1992)), a Guinean hospital (Donka radioscopie d'un hôpital africain (1996)) or the contadictions of Iranian society (Iran sous le voile des apparences (1996)). But Thierry Michel does not forget his native Belgium. Born in 1952 in Charleroi, in the heart of an industrial region nicknamed "the Black Country, the director made his first documentaries following the miners or the steelworkers among whom he had been raised. His first feature film was also well-rooted since it was a re-creation of the great insurrectional strike of 1960 (Hiver 60 (1983)). Thierry Michel also explored the inside of a Belgian prison in "Hôtel particulier". But whether in his native Belgium or in a far country, this humanist is always on the lookout for what brings people closer together. Which makes him more than just a standard documentarist or fiction director. Don't miss his last movie Katanga Business (2009), a brilliant political thriller.

Awards

Thierry Michel

European Film Awards

International Documentary Association

Moscow International Film Festival

San Francisco International Film Festival

Joseph Plateau Awards

Magritte Awards, Belgium

Black Movie Film Festival

International Film Festival WATCH DOCS

Paisagens Festival Internacional De Cinema

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