Edition 2026
Official Selection
Films are rarely made in solitude. Behind every scene lies a series of conversations, compromises and moments when one person sees something the other hasn’t yet noticed. Dag van het Filmberoep (day of the film profession) is all about precisely those moments. Over the course of an afternoon, we’ll be letting filmmakers talk about how they work (together).
Edward Berger & Volker Bertelmann (2.00 pm – Kinepolis 8)
Director Edward Berger has been collaborating with composer Volker Bertelmann for many years: from All Quiet on the Western Front, which earned Bertelmann an Oscar and a WSAward for his score, to Conclave (WSAward 2025) and, more recently, Ballad of a Small Player. They discuss how a film finds its emotional range, when music carries a scene and when it is better left silent, and how, as a director and composer, you develop a language in which you no longer need to explain to each other what you mean.
Rebecca O’Brien — Engaged Cinema (15:45 pm – Kinepolis 4)
Rebecca O’Brien has been working as an independent producer for thirty-five years. Prior to that, she gained experience in the industry in a variety of roles: she was location manager on My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) and production manager on several early Channel 4 films. As a producer, she has collaborated with Ken Loach to build one of the most consistent bodies of work in European cinema: Land and Freedom, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I, Daniel Blake and The Old Oak. Two of these — The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) — won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. In an interview, she discusses what it takes to get socially engaged stories made and seen, and why those stories matter in dark times.
