VITRIVAL – THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN THE WORLD / ВІТРІВАЛЬ

Leonid Nefedovich
Sep 18
2 min read

Updated: Sep 20

2025 / 109' / feature / Belgium

Benjamin and Little Pierre, cousins and local policemen, patrol Vitrival while listening to Radio Chevauchoir. They have a lot to do: dick graffities are popping up on the village walls. Of course, no one has seen or heard anything. At the same time, a villager commits suicide, then two, then three.

Season after season, dick graffities and suicides proliferate. What can Benjamin and Pierre do about it? Days and celebrations will keep flowing, no matter what.

Screenings schedule:

September 29, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon Hall

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DIRECTOR - NOËLLE BASTIN & BAPTISTE BOGAERT

Biography

Baptiste Bogaert and Noëlle Bastin are a Belgian filmmaking duo based in Brussels.

Born in 1991, Noëlle grew up in Vitrival (Belgium). She studied French and Romance languages and literature. She taught French for a few years, while making their first film, La cour (2017, selected at FID Marseille).

Born in Charleroi (Belgium) in 1990, Baptiste studied film writing (ULB) and photography (La Cambre). He worked as a project manager in a government department, a distraction that gave rise to their film Salut travail (2019). Following these first two films, they devoted themselves entirely to filmmaking. They made 6 short, medium and feature-length films, selected at several festivals (IFFR, Clermont-Ferrand, FIFIB, ALCINE, Escales documentaries de la Rochelle, etc.), acclaimed for their formal hybridity and the contemporary issues they tackle.

They like to film real places, practices, and people – hence the interweaving of fiction and documentary in their work, as well as the collaboration with non-professional actors.

In addition to writing and directing, they film and edit their films.

Selected filmography