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The challenges of comedy for broadcasters
Comedy, the popular genre par excellence, occupies a special place in the cultural landscape. But how do you convince financiers to invest in this genre, which is often considered “risky” or “too local”?
Rire sans frontières: Financing comedy between France, Belgium and Luxembourg
Comedy plays a major role in European filmmaking, but getting it into production often involves complex financial balances. This round table will bring together producers from France, Belgium and Luxembourg to discuss existing support mechanisms, complementarities between the three territories and best practices in co-production.
The future of comedy: Public investors’ views
Comedy has long been considered the poor relation of public funding. Today, however, it is a cultural, economic and popular driving force.
How do you present a comedy project on the international market?
According to the European MEDIA Outlook 2025 study, comedy is the film genre most appreciated by European audiences. But is it also the genre that exports best?
Blockchain & Cinema – Investment 3.0
Tokenization is redefining the codes of traditional finance.
In this global movement, cinema is becoming a new tokenized asset, offering tangible, predictable returns uncoupled from traditional markets.
Filming without wrinkles
The 10th Liège International Comedy Film Festival and the Association des Scénaristes de l’Audiovisuel invite you to an impertinent and useful Round Table! More than ever, content creators are faced with contradictory injunctions: artistic freedom on the one hand, societal pressures and heightened sensitivities on the other.Self-censorship, political correctness, the...
Conversation on a wire with Reda Kateb
In a wide-ranging conversation with Reda Kateb about his directorial debut, Sur un fil, presented that very morning at the festival, his co-writer discusses his desire for cinema and images, and how his work as an actor now influences his work as a director.
Rencontres professionnelles 2025
For its 10th edition, the Liège International Comedy Film Festival will be pulling out its fangs (and zygomats) for a Round Table that promises to make you think as well as smile: “Filmer sans froisser: la comédie en terrain miné” (“Filming without offending: comedy in a minefield”). Today, more than...
Rencontres professionnelles 2024
The ecological transition is crucial to our future. The Liège International Comedy Film Festival is proposing ways to reduce the CO2 footprint of film productions, with the help of experts in ecology and cinema. How can we reconcile film production and the environment? Can we save carbon and euros? Can...
The CineComédies Lab writing residency
The aim of the residency is to support authors in the delicate development phase of their screenplays, helping them to solve problems of dramaturgy and rhythm, and to explore the various narrative possibilities.
Rencontres professionnelles 2023
We’ve seen it all, read it all, heard it all. Libération headlined “Cinéma: la maison brûle et nous regardons Netflix”, Jamel Debbouze advised “Ayez en confiance vous et aimez le cinéma” (Have faith in yourself and love the cinema), and cinema-goers assured us that “Ce n’est plus comme avant” (It’s...
Rencontres professionnelles 2022
The success of the first Rencontres Professionnelles convinced GRE-Liège and FIFCL to repeat the experience around a key theme: training for the film industry.
Rencontres professionnelles 2021
For the first time, GRE-Liège and FIFCL are joining forces to bring together audiovisual professionals on the theme: “It’s high time to take comedy seriously!