Before “Domicile fixe”, presented at FIFCL in the Belgian competition, Xavier Diskeuve from Namur had directed 6 other short films and one feature. His background is a little atypical, since he didn’t attend any film school, just a degree in Communications in Liège. He started out as a regional journalist with the daily newspaper l’Avenir, while also performing some evenings with the Théâtre universitaire liégeois (Turlg).
In 1992, he accompanied the Poelvoorde gang and their film “C’est arrivé près de chez vous” (It Happened Near You) to the Cannes Film Festival for his newspaper, and then rubbed shoulders with a photographer and future filmmaker named Benoît Mariage. All this gave him the irrepressible urge to shoot a test film, with the “faces” of his entourage. The result was a quirky road-movie, “La chanson-Chanson” (2002), followed by “Mon Cousin Jacques” (2004), which went on to win numerous audience awards.
After four short films, he decided to try his hand at feature films (Jacques a vu, released in 2015). At the same time, he writes daily for the satirical radio program “Votez pour moi” on Bel RTL. In recent years, he has also produced and written the “seuls en scène” of actor Vincent Pagé, often programmed at Liège’s Comédie centrale. On the film front, he has returned to the short format. His last three films (“Tonton Maurice” in 2021, “Le Petit prodige” in 2022 and the aforementioned “Domicile fixe”) were in competition at FIFCL, which he thanks for its loyalty.