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The FIFCL has further strengthened its professional credentials with the creation of the Espace Pro: a unique venue featuring the CineComedies Lab writing residency, the Rencontres professionnelles, the partnership with Europe Créative, the salon des formations et métiers du cinéma, the conference on disability in cinema, and the interview with Cédric Kahn about his film "Making Of".

This year's edition is also all about glamour and glitter: Nathalie Baye, Franck Dubosc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Kev Adams, Julie Ferrier, Dany Boon, Yolande Moreau, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Emmanuelle Devos, Finnegan Oldfield, Valérie Lemercier and Éric Lavaine take to the red carpet. And Gérard Lanvin creates a stir, not to say a riot, alongside his surprise guest(s): Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Olivier Marchal and Vincent Roget!

Monia Chokri's Franco-Quebec film "Simple comme Sylvain" won the Golden Bull.

2022 is also the year of a strengthened partnership with the CinéComédie Lab of Lille, sponsored by Benoît Mariage, who is completing his residency in the Cité ardente and will speak with conviction at the^2nd Professional Meetings. The subject: the role of screenwriters in cinema in general, and comedy in particular.

Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Tavier and André Bonzel celebrate the 30th anniversary of "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" at the FIFCL, during an unforgettable evening, for them as well as for the people of Liège. They also rush to meet André Dussollier, Karin Viard, Kev Adams, Christian Clavier and Patrick Bruel, who fill the rooms and charm the audience.

2022 is also the year of a strengthened partnership with the CinéComédie Lab of Lille, sponsored by Benoît Mariage, who is completing his residency in the Cité ardente and will speak with conviction at the^2nd Professional Meetings. The subject: the role of screenwriters in cinema in general, and comedy in particular.

The incredible Professional Meetings will be shaking up conventional wisdom as early as 2021: after too long a hiatus, the desire to share knowledge and know-how is stronger than ever. The FIFCL and the Groupement de Redéploiement Économique de Liège (GRE-Liège) have joined forces to bring together a quality panel on the financing of comedy in Belgium. Screenwriters, producers, representatives of the first Belgian French-speaking public radio and television (RTBF), of the GRE-Liège, of the Walloon pole dedicated to the film industry (Wallimage), Walloons, Flemish, French..., all of them went beyond their territorial and cultural differences to establish, on the sidelines of the FIFCL, an exciting and passionate dialogue, in a constructive, curious and benevolent approach.

The first version of the Festival's TV platform will arrive in 2019, at the same time as the tiles of the now much envied Walk of Fame in the Rue Pont d'Avroy.

La Comédie, a festive beer in the image of a film genre now adored in Liège, sees the light of day in 2018.

Bouli Lanners, Daniel Prévost, Dominique Pinon, Éric Judor, Olivier Gourmet, Jaco Van Dormael, Renaud Rutten will be in the first edition. Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Élie Semoun, Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Alex Lutz, Émilie Bierre, Kev Adams, François Berléand, Michaël Youn, Anne Émond, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Michèle Laroque, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Darmon, Xin Wang, Jean-Marie Poiré, Valérie Bonneton and many others join them over time.

In 2015, Cinélabel ASBL rolled up its sleeves and began a series of fruitful contacts that would lead, in 2016, to the first edition of the Liège International Comedy Film Festival: the FIFCL.