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Thierry Michel (born 13 October 1952) is a Belgian film director, mostly making social and political documentaries. His office and company Les films de la passerelle is located in Liège, where he works with the producer Christine Pireaux.
Thierry Michel. Director: Mobutu, roi du Zaïre. Thierry Michel, the indefatigable globe trotter. Always anxious to find out about the wide world, the Belgian director has already explored, through documentary or fiction, Morocco and its people (Issue de secours 1987)), Brazilian favelas (Gosses de Rio (1990), the culture of Zaire (Zaïre, le ...
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Jan 19, 2022 · Thierry Michel • Director of Empire of Silence. "We can’t just stand back and watch forever, without saying or doing anything" by Aurore Engelen. 19/01/2022 - The director uses his documentary to look back on 25 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the blind eye and deaf ear turned by the international community.
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Thierry Michel, the indefatigable globe trotter. Always anxious to find out about the wide world, the Belgian director has already explored, through documentary or fiction, Morocco and its people (Issue de secours 1987)), Brazilian favelas (Gosses de Rio (1990), the culture of Zaire ( Grand format: Zaïre, le cycle du serpent (1992)), a Guinean ...
L’Empire du silence ( Empire of Silence) is Belgian filmmaker Thierry Michel’s newest film about the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For more than thirty years, Michel traveled across the country, camera in hand, witnessing not only fighting and suffering, but also the hope of the Congolese people.
Jan 18, 2022 · Empire of Silence. 18/01/2022 - Thierry Michel looks back on a drama which has lasted almost 30 years, unfolding in one of the richest countries in the world whose people are one of the poorest. In the early 1990s, Thierry Michel travelled to the Congo to film the troubles tearing through Kinshasa.
Mar 23, 2022 · “We can’t just stand back and watch forever, without saying or doing anything” by Aurore Engelen 19/01/2022 – The director uses his documentary to look back on 25 years of war in …
