Partners

The FIFCL would not be possible without their exceptional support. Our partners and official sponsors play a key role in ensuring the continued success of Europe’s biggest comedy film event. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their unfailing support, which contributes to the success and influence of each edition.

VivaCité

VivaCité

Main, Media

A local channel, VivaCité mixes humor, news, sports and games, to the sound of French and Anglo-Saxon variety. It offers several regional variations at 2 key times of the day: from 06:00 to 08:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00. It is also the driving force behind major rallying events.

National Lottery

National Lottery

Main

The National Lottery wants to offer you and 6.5 million adult Belgians responsible gaming pleasure. We offer you a dream, make winners happy and, thanks to you, support some 800 good causes every year.

Orange

Orange

Support

Orange Belgium is one of the leading players in the telecommunications market in Belgium and Luxembourg (through its subsidiary Orange Communications Luxembourg). With more than 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg, Orange Belgium operates top-quality mobile and fixed-line networks, which are constantly being invested in to remain at the cutting edge of technology in the sector.

Kinepolis

Kinepolis

Support

Kinepolis extends the traditional cinema experience to a wider world of film and entertainment, and offers its audiences maximum flexibility in when, where and how they enjoy this offer. Kinepolis aims to offer its customers the very best cinema experience, and to this end combines a state-of-the-art cinema infrastructure with an offer tailored to different target groups.

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Main

The Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles is an institution dedicated to serving the French-speaking communities of Brussels and Wallonia. It is responsible for the following areas: Education, Culture, Sport, Youth Aid, Scientific Research and Houses of Justice.

Province of Liège

Province of Liège

Support

There’s more to the Province of Liège than the road sign you pass behind the wheel on your way from another Belgian province, the Netherlands, Germany or Luxembourg. The Province of Liège is also a public company with employees. We have nearly 6,200 employees at your service in a wide range of complementary fields.

City of Liège

City of Liège

Support

Wallonia’s economic capital boasts a historic center in the form of an open-air museum. Remarkably styled old buildings, linked by medieval alleyways and shopping streets, form the beating heart of the city. The richness of the past is combined with an ever-renewed modernity. The heart of Liège is waiting for you.

Paris Match Belgium

Paris Match Belgium

Main, Media

Paris Match Belgique is the No. 1 weekly news magazine, covering international and national news every week, with scoops, exclusives, reports, culture, lifestyle and people. A true guardian of advertising impact, Paris Match succeeds in the challenge of offering a “real” reading contract, enriched by the “Carnets de Paris Match”.

 

Total screen

Total screen

Facultatif, Media

Everything you need to know about the film and TV production business, from scripts to popcorn. Audiovisual news for professionals!

Walloon Region

Walloon Region

Main

Wallonia is a land of welcome. The friendliness and hospitality of the Walloon people have a lot to do with it. Considered one of Europe’s smallest regions, it is also a land of contrasts, with a multitude of landscapes. With its dense road and rail networks, and two fast-developing airports, Wallonia is a European crossroads for a wide range of commercial exchanges.

La Libre

La Libre

Media

La Libre Belgique is the highest-quality French-language daily in Belgium, and a veritable vector and reference for Belgian, international, political, economic and cultural news.

Schyns

Schyns

Support

Our Group has a solid heritage of expertise. Responding to the needs of each and every one of our customers, providing them with the best possible advice, has always been part of the way we do business. We are convinced that consumers must be at the heart of our efforts and our listening.

Be TV

Be TV

Media

Be tv, access a wide selection of ultra-recent films, classic movies and dozens of series from all over the world, whenever and wherever you want!

Uhoda

Uhoda

Patrons, Support

Uhoda is a network of shops, service stations, car washes, parking lots and convenience stores, accessible throughout Belgium. We create the service station of tomorrow. We offer our unique selection of quality products. Here you’ll discover a wide range of products that are different, accessible and constantly renewed.

Taxshelter.be

Taxshelter.be

Support

Taxshelter.be, an independent company recognized for its ethics and transparency, is one of the historic players in Tax Shelter financing for audiovisual production and the performing arts.

ARPi

ARPi

Support

ARPi, l’Association des Réalisateurs.rice.s-Producteur.rice.s indépendant.e.s, is a professional union of French-speaking Belgian directors who produce or co-produce their own films.

Target Communication

Target Communication

Support

Cible is first and foremost a concentration of 20 creative talents in an ultra-colorful open space, as vibrant as our personalities. Whether it’s defining a tailor-made strategy or creating content that’s as powerful as it is useful, we’re here for one thing only: to make your story legendary. Oh, and if you happen to hear us laughing as you come in, we’re not laughing at you; we’re just in a good mood.

Wallimage

Wallimage

Support

Wallimage is a limited company under public law which constitutes the Walloon regional audiovisual cluster. 100% owned by the Walloon Region, this S.A. is a purely economic fund initiated in 2001 with a view to creating jobs by developing and sustaining a regional audiovisual industry through targeted investments with multiplier effects.

Union de la presse Cinématographique Belge

Union de la presse Cinématographique Belge

Support

The Union de la presse cinématographique belge (UPCB) is the Belgian representative of the International Federation of the Film Press (FIPRESCI). Since 2006, it has been the official extension of the Association professionnelle de la presse cinématographique belge (APPCB), a de facto association officially founded on May 1, 1925 in Brussels.

Jupiler

Jupiler

Support

Jupiler is Belgium’s most famous and best-loved beer. Our delicious lager is brewed with the finest ingredients and unrivalled expertise to guarantee exceptional quality.

Champagne Pommery

Champagne Pommery

Support

Pommery is delicacy and vivacity, heart and mind, a style made of finesse, playing a score that emphasizes the elegance of aromas rather than their power.

Unifrance

Unifrance

Support

Created in 1949, Unifrance is the organization in charge of promoting French cinema and audiovisual abroad.

Town of Herstal

Town of Herstal

Support

With a total workforce of over a thousand, including local public institutions, the CPAS and the Police Zone, Herstal’s municipal administration, with its 450 staff and 357 teachers, offers a multitude of services to the population.

VISITWallonia.be

VISITWallonia.be

Support

The non-profit organization, a “public-private” partnership structure, operates thanks to the investment of its members, mainly SMEs, associations and very small businesses, representing various tourism sectors: attractions, accommodation, trade associations, transporters, business tourism activities…

City of Seraing

City of Seraing

Support

Many associate Seraing with its glorious industrial past and the painful decline of the 1980s. Yet it would be unfair to reduce the town to this single page of its history. In fact, Seraing has survived the centuries by striving to make the most of its assets as the daughter of the Meuse. Sometimes agricultural, sometimes forested, often hard-working, the town’s landscape has changed over the years, while always pursuing its aspirations for greatness.

Point Chaud

Point Chaud

Support

Craftsmanship at the heart of our products. All our bakery, patisserie and brioche products are handcrafted in our workshops!

Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Support

Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) is the organization in charge of Wallonia-Brussels’ international relations. It is the instrument of the international policy pursued by Wallonia, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the French Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region. Through agreements with 70 countries and regions, WBI supports Wallonia-Brussels creators and entrepreneurs.

Liège Gestion centre-ville ASBL

Liège Gestion centre-ville ASBL

Support

An interface between the public and private players in Liège’s city center and all its users. To fulfill its mission, the downtown management team draws up a strategic plan based on a shared vision of the downtown area. Together, local players define the priorities for action.

The SNCB

The SNCB

Support

The Belgian railroads, whose main shareholder is the Belgian state, are made up of 3 fully-fledged entities: SNCB, Infrabel and HR Rail. In addition to its 5 operational divisions, SNCB has a number of corporate departments designed to support the divisions in their activities. SNCB is made up of 5 departments. Each of them has its own objectives and does its utmost to achieve them.

Ardent Real Estate

Ardent Real Estate

Support

Active for several decades, Ardent Real Estate is an investor and developer of real estate projects in the retail, residential and office sectors. We are an innovative, thoughtful and committed player.

QU4TRE

QU4TRE

Media

Qu4tre is one of the twelve Médias de Proximité (local TV channels) of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. In television, these channels are broadcast via the cable network. They also have a strong presence on the web and social networks. Qu4tre’s broadcast area covers the districts of Liège, Huy and Waremme.

Association des Scénaristes de l’Audiovisuel

Association des Scénaristes de l’Audiovisuel

Support

The ASA (Association des Scénaristes de l’Audiovisuel-Belgique) is a group of screenwriters dedicated to the screenplay, screenwriters and their partners. The association is aimed at scriptwriters of all levels, and seeks to promote information, exchange and links between individuals, professionals and the public. Its activities currently revolve around screenplays for short films, feature films and TV series.

APM Monaco

APM Monaco

Facultatif, Support

APM jewelry is chic. APM represents Monaco, synonymous with elegance, savoir-vivre and luxury. APM jewelry is at the cutting edge of fashion. APM is inspired by street style, fashion shows, trends and art. APM also represents the smile of the South of France. A lifestyle represented by a positive attitude, a sense of welcome, simplicity and kindness.

Les Grignoux

Les Grignoux

Support

Asbl les Grignoux, a social economy cultural enterprise, manages eight cinemas in Liège, as well as a café-gallery and a brasserie on three sites: the Parc, the Churchill and the Sauvenière; and five cinemas in Namur on the Caméo site, as well as an adjacent brasserie, the Caféo. These cinemas showcase the best recent films in their original subtitled version (previews with directors and film crews, special evenings, conferences and debates with associations, etc.).

The GreenShot

The GreenShot

Support

Since our inception, we’ve been committed to simplifying ecoproduction and reducing the carbon footprint of creative projects, by offering innovative and accessible solutions. Dive into our history and see how each step brings us closer to a more sustainable future for the industry.

Premium Films

Premium Films

Support

Premium Films has specialized in the distribution of short films since 1998.

Charles Liégeois

Charles Liégeois

Support

Driven by his love of coffee, Charles Liégeois began roasting in 1955, and year after year, from one trip to the next, he honed his knowledge and mastery of roasting, which he passed on to his sons and grandson. Today, he is a major player in the Belgian roasting industry. Recognition that has been forged over generations, around strong values that we pass on as generously as possible with our coffee.

Movie Mills cinema

Movie Mills cinema

Support

The Movie Mills cinema is a five-screen complex that can accommodate up to 750 spectators. Among other features, it is equipped with Dolby ATMOS technology, which offers exceptional sound immersion thanks to some fifty strategically placed speakers: behind the screen, on the side walls and even on the ceiling!

Be On The Web

Be On The Web

Support

We’ve been experts in IT solutions architecture and website design for over 20 years, helping you to set up your projects, from functional analysis to implementation.

Info Tourism Benelux

Info Tourism Benelux

Support

There’s no doubt about it, Info Tourism is here to achieve its twofold objective: to forge links and create opportunities between tourism operators and travelers. As an industry referral service, Info Tourism brings valuable visibility to its partners, while guiding tourists to the best destinations in the Benelux.

Parilis

Parilis

Support

In our boutique, you’ll stroll among the compositions, bouquets and original plants that we showcase in exceptional earthenware and vases. Our artistic identity is the combination of colors. Sometimes peppy, crazy, sometimes pastel and soft. We combine the baroque with the modern and contemporary. We bring flowers and plants back to life, sometimes wrongly forgotten. We give new life to modernized, recolored and restyled varieties.

BM3 communication

BM3 communication

Support

BM3 Communication is a graphic design agency based in Liège, offering quality services combining creativity and responsiveness. Whether developing a complete visual identity or working from an existing logo and graphic charter, we contribute effectively to reinforcing and promoting a positive image for your company.

120×160 Graphic Designer

120×160 Graphic Designer

Support

Edouard Chastenet specializes in poster design for cinema and live performance. He designs and produces posters, including animated versions, as well as executing and monitoring campaigns. His expertise also extends to DVD, Blu-ray and VOD formats.

Visual Impact

Visual Impact

Support

Tailor-made solutions, personalized support and professional service for all your projects, no matter how ambitious! From business cards to illuminated signs, we put our expertise at your service to make all your projects a reality.

TSM Events

TSM Events

Support

From sound systems to event lighting, from stand creation to video projection, TSM Events offers a wide range of comprehensive and fully customizable services! We do everything we can to make your project, large or small, a true technical success. From simple equipment sales and rental to permanent technical support, TSM Events is your ideal technical service provider for all your events.

Amberscript

Amberscript

Support

We are a close-knit team combining three essential disciplines: technology, language and science. Every day, we work passionately to achieve our mission: to make audio accessible to everyone.

Periskop

Periskop

Support

Periskop dives in with you to find solutions that will make you visible with an original concept and attractive communication. Customized graphics on communication media tailored to your needs. Part of our approach is to make your project a reality with a meaningful strategy for your visual identity and digital marketing, accompanying you every step of the way. Complete communication means total immersion in your project.

Gestanet

Gestanet

Support

Gestanet is a company specializing in the cleaning of premises, window cleaning, and the maintenance of offices, commercial premises and industrial sites. Thanks to our many certifications and our simple, lean structure, we offer our customers a personalized service.

JLP Laser

JLP Laser

Support

Whether you want to liven up a concert or festival, create a laser show synchronized to the music, light up a city’s skyline, project information, animations, advertising or your logo over long distances, Laser JLP offers customized coverage for your project.

Alliance Security

Alliance Security

Support

Alliance Security SPRL is a guarding company approved by the Ministry of the Interior under number 16.0262.06. It stands out for its attentiveness to its customers, its commitment to clearly defining its objectives and guaranteeing the confidentiality of its missions.

Jeebee

Jeebee

Support

Jeebee can help you from A to Z in the design of interior and exterior spaces for the hotel and catering industry, nursing homes and communities. Drawing on our extensive experience in the field, we can offer you a 100% modular package tailored to your needs. Enhancing the value of your establishment is our priority. High-quality furnishings and decorations bring credibility and a friendly atmosphere to your customers.

Emisys

Emisys

Support

EmisysAudience Event is a fully modular solution, from a simple cashless module to a complete, fully customizable suite. Whether you opt for a standard design or a dedicated skin, our modules are designed to adapt to the specific needs of each event, and integrate easily with the systems you’ve already adopted.

Balteau Group

Balteau Group

Support

Balteau Group stands out for the breadth of its services and the integrated approach of its disciplines, ensuring consistency in the design and implementation of the projects entrusted to it. These companies are independent entities, responsible for their own management, choices and objectives, and preferred partners for many investors and customers. The scope and quality of their skills have enabled them to participate in the realization of numerous infrastructure projects, both public and private.

AVIQ

AVIQ

Support

The AVIQ is an autonomous public interest organization (OIP) managing competencies in health, well-being, support for the elderly, disability and families in Wallonia. AVIQ is the public service responsible for information, assistance and advice on the inclusion of people with disabilities.

BC-consult

BC-consult

Support

Your ally, BC-Consult, is your privileged partner for developing, imagining and structuring your projects in an innovative and efficient way.

So Agency

So Agency

Support

So Agency: talent meets style. From Paris to Ibiza, our make-up artists, hairdressers, stylists and many others are at the service of your project: television, fashion, fiction, advertising, film festivals, events and much more…

VICTOR Hair Artist

VICTOR Hair Artist

Support

Far from traditional hairdressing salons, it’s above all a world, a decor, a timeless establishment… in which passionate people put their talent at the service of your well-being and your hair. Located in the heart of Liège, we offer men’s and women’s hairdressing services tailored to your every whim.

Company Writers

Company Writers

Support

Are you a manager, communicator, marketer, financier or HR professional? Do you have a speech to give? A text to translate? A poster to proofread? A brochure to write? A communication plan to imagine? We’re ready to listen, understand and act! CompanyWriters is a consortium of enthusiastic and inquisitive talents, made up of some fifty writers, journalists, translators or proofreaders, professionals, photographers, web designers and more.

Gmedi

Gmedi

Support

We specialize in the sale of medical and paramedical equipment for everyone and every situation. Whether you’re an individual or a healthcare professional, you’ll find solutions at Gmedi that promote well-being and autonomy. Gmedi has 7 stores specializing in the sale of medical and paramedical equipment in Wallonia.

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Support

Coca-Cola wants to be there for everyone. And not just with our drinks. As a company, we leave our mark on the world around us and on local communities. We believe it is our duty to contribute to society.

La DH

La DH

Media

La DH is THE Belgian French-language daily newspaper for the general public and the sports world, with a daily focus on exclusivity and enriched information, explained in a straightforward tone. Known for its strength in social events, it also aims to be a ‘newspaper for everyone’ and, as such, gives priority to the notion of service in its approach to the issues of the day. With its regional editions, DH can pride itself on being a truly local newspaper, in perfect symbiosis with its readership.

L’Avenir

L’Avenir

Media

L’Avenir is a regional daily offering quality information, and is a leader in the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide its readers and advertisers with a contemporary newspaper with strong local roots, through its nine regional editions and a tenth digital edition for Wallonia, while offering an open view of the world and national news.

Mosquito

Mosquito

Media

A news magazine, Moustique offers its readers the chance to discover news in a way they’ve never read before. Its leitmotiv: to provide in-depth, serious and sometimes offbeat coverage of all the issues facing our society. With its modern, dynamic layout, Moustique’s content is divided into three sections: “Les Infos” (News), “Les Grands Formats” (Large Formats) and “Le Guide” (The Guide), which shares great ideas for outings, not forgetting its unmissable “Programmes télé” (TV Programs).

Deuzio

Deuzio

Media

A weekend supplement in our three daily newspapers L’Avenir, la DH les sports and La Libre, Deuzio is a real magazine that combines travel, culinary delights, family outings and the benefits of cocooning. Rich and entertaining, it also offers all the week’s TV programs, because it also claims to be useful, driven by the desire to share advice in the form of cooking recipes, ideas for the garden or original proposals for breathing fresh air into body and mind. Deuzio is all about lifestyle information for women and men alike.

Aftertouch Studio

Aftertouch Studio

Support

Ideas, art, design, motion. Aftertouch is a creative studio specializing in the creation and animation of rich, engaging visual worlds for brands and companies.

Eurostar

Eurostar

Facultatif, Support

Eurostar and Thalys join forces under the name Eurostar, ushering in an exciting new era in rail travel. From now on, high-speed connections between the UK, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands will be more numerous, and connections easier.

La Une – RTBF

La Une – RTBF

Media

La Une is RTBF’s general-interest, family and popular channel. It focuses on information, entertainment and events. La Une promotes the heritage of Brussels and Wallonia. It is open to Belgium, Europe, the French-speaking world and the rest of the world.

Tipik

Tipik

Media

As RTBF’s second general-interest TV channel, Tipik is also, and above all, a digital media, radio and TV channel aimed at young adults. In this way, it perfectly complements the front page. Tipik’s offering includes news, culture, discovery, sports and series, among others.

La Prem1ère

La Prem1ère

Media

La Première is RTBF’s general-interest channel, aimed at an audience that is curious and open to the world. Its editorial pillars are information, culture and social debate. Informing, deciphering and inspiring are its three essential missions: with its 24 daily news bulletins, La Première is the most responsive radio station to current events, it shares with its listeners the keys to reading the world, and its many magazines are open windows on all kinds of knowledge.

Classic 21

Classic 21

Media

Classic 21 is the best of rock and pop from the last fifty years, told and set to music by enthusiasts with renowned expertise in the field. A partner in many concerts, Classic 21 is also the benchmark channel for traffic news, thanks to RTBF MOBILINFO (regularly scheduled flashes, reinforced at rush hour, and special coverage of major traffic problems).

Europe Créative Wallonie-Bruxelles

Europe Créative Wallonie-Bruxelles

Support

Creative Europe 2021-2027 is a program of the European Commission. Its aim is to strengthen cultural diversity in Europe and respond to the needs and challenges of the cultural, creative and audiovisual sectors. It contributes to the revival of these sectors and supports them in their efforts to become more digital, greener, more resilient and more inclusive.

John Cockerill

John Cockerill

Facultatif, Support

Driven since 1817 by its founder’s entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time.

Center du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel

Center du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel

Facultatif, Support

The main mission of the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel is to encourage and support audiovisual creation, distribution and promotion in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, while respecting the diversity of genres and audiences.

Pictanovo

Pictanovo

Facultatif, Support

Thanks to the region’s constant investment over the past 30 years, the regional industry has become more professional and structured, with technicians and actors working year-round, and companies in the audiovisual technical industries and the hotel-restaurant sector finding new sources of growth.

The CineComedies Lens-Liévin Festival

The CineComedies Lens-Liévin Festival

Facultatif, Support

An international festival dedicated to all forms of film comedy. A popular and cinephile event, encouraging dialogue and encounters with the entire population of Lens-Liévin.

Ethias

Ethias

Facultatif, Support

For over 100 years, we have believed that building a sustainable society is a shared responsibility. As a leading Belgian insurer, we understand today’s challenges and are committed to providing greater security and opportunity. Our mission: to be a strong link between stability and renewal, between citizens and communities. This conviction guides us every day.

Goosse by Agron Billa

Goosse by Agron Billa

Facultatif, Support

Choosing Goosse means offering an event where gastronomy reflects your culture or personality. Under the direction of Chef Agron Billa, every detail is perfectly adapted to the theme. Thanks to its expertise and meticulous management, Goosse is recognized for its high-level event gastronomy, and can organize your entire event.