Fantasporto

Belgian director Karim Ouelhaj , from “Megalomaniac”, winner of the Best Film and Director Awards at Fantasporto 2023, and honored at Fantasporto 2024, talks about his work with producer Florence Saadi.

Karim Ouelhaj is a Belgian director, writer and producer. His first feature film “Parabola” was selected for the Venice Festival in the official Giornatti degli Autori Venice Days section. This film also won the Federico Fellini Prize in 2006 in the USA, among other awards. It was the first feature film in a triptych dedicated to society, which included “La Repas du Singe” (2013), Best Actress at the Rome Festival, and “Une Realité para Seconde” (2015). In 2016, his fantastic short film “L'Oeil Silencieux” won the Grand Prize and the Méliès D'Argent at the Brussels Festival and was selected, and awarded, at numerous festivals. “Megalomaniac” (2022), his fourth feature film, inspired by the true story of the Butcher of Mons, won more than 20 international awards, including Best Film at Fantasia (Canada), Best Horror Film at the Macabro Film Festival (Mexico) and Best Film, Director and Actress at Fantasporto 2023.