Ève Duchemin

After studying cinema at INSAS (Belgium), Ève Duchemin set out, camera in hand, to direct numerous documentary portraits. She traveled through Wallonia, filming elderly miners from the Borinage and the disappearance of factories (Ghislain et Liliane, couple avec pigeons – 2005, Mémoire d’Envol – 2007 for RTBF). She then filmed portraits of the increasingly precarious youth in Avant que les murs tombent (2009, VPRO) and L’Âge Adulte (2012, Arte), which won awards at Brive for Best Medium-Length Film, and at festivals in Nyon, Poitiers, Clermont-Ferrand…

Her first short fiction in 2009, Sac de Nœuds, was acclaimed and awarded at various festivals (Beaumarchais Prize, Le Court qui en dit Long award, selection at Premiers Plans d’Angers, etc.). While completing her prison-focused documentary En Bataille, portrait d’une Directrice de prison (2016, Arte, winner of the 2017 Magritte for Best Documentary) she began writing her first feature fiction, Temps mort, developed through the Groupe Ouest’s Sélection Annuelle which was released in 2024.

She is currently completing her latest feature documentary on women in emergency shelters, Petit Rempart, for RTBF, and is simultaneously developing the script for her second feature fiction, Cette Salope de Marylin.