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Golden Tulip Competition

MALDOROR

• Director: Fabrice du Welz
• BELGIUM, FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 153’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Domenico La Porta, Fabrice du Welz
• Director of Photography: Manu Dacosse
• Editing: Nico Leunen
• Music: Vincent Cahay
• Cast: Anthony Bajon, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas, David Murgia, Béatrice Dalle
• Producer: Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts, Manuel Chiche, Violaine Barbaroux
• Production Co.: Frakas, The Jokers Films
• World Sales: WTFilms

Balkan Premiere

When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to ‘Maldoror’. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a suspect sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt that transforms into an obsession to bring down the culprits. Screened at Venice Film Festival out of competition, Maldoror was inspired by an infamous serial killer and a notorious crime case that transformed Belgium in the 1990s. ’My intention is to explore the nature of evil and the quest for justice through realistic and evocative fiction,’ says director Fabrice du Welz, who preferred rather to cinematically alter reality.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.