Isabelle Tollenaere
is an independent filmmaker/artist from Belgium, making short films, feature length films and installations, playfully moving between the codes and conventions of documentary and fiction, film and contemporary art. In her practice she mainly explores the connections between the current shifts in reality and the memory of the past.
Her filmography includes the short films Viva Paradis (2011), The Remembered Film (2018) and The Fruit Tree (2022), as well as the feature length films Battles (2015) and Victoria (2020).
Her films have been shown atthe Venice International Film Festival, Berlinale Forum (Caligari Film Prize 2020), IFFR (Fipresci award 2015), Centre Pompidou, Viennale, Visions Du Réel, FID Marseille, IDFA, CPH:DOX, 25FPS (Grand Jury Prize 2018), IndieLisboa (Special Jury Prize 2020), and many others.
Her work is distributed by Argos, Dalton Distribution, Filmotor and Square Eyes.