Professional meetings

Les Rencontres professionnelles du FIFCL offers an opportunity for professionals with a passion for film and comedy to exchange views, through masterclasses, studies, screenings, roundtables, networking sessions and much more.

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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!