Kwassa Films is a Brussels-based production company dedicated to promoting original, committed projects accessible to a wide audience, and contributing to the emergence of young Belgian talent on the international scene.
The company produces feature-length fiction films. “Time out” by Eve Duchemin, starring Karim Leklou, was released in April 2023. In October 2021, Olivier Pairoux’s “SpaceBoy” won Best Film at the Molodist Festival – Teen Screen section.
Other international co-productions include Zoé Wittock’s “Jumbo” (Sundance 2020 and Berlinale 2020 – Generation section), Frederike Migom’s “Binti” (Sundance 2020), Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the wind drop” (Cannes Festival Label 2020 and Acid 2020), and Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The man who sold his skin” (Mostra de Venise 2020, and nominated for Best Foreign Film at the OSCARS 2021). Most recently, Mareike Engelhardt’s “Rabia” was selected for the Angoulême FFA and the Deauville Film Festival 2024.
Kwassa Films has been producing series since 2020, with “Unseen”, broadcast on RTBF and sold in several countries. The company is currently developing 3 new series.
Kwassa Films also produces short films, including “The proposal” by Gerlando Infuso (Magritte for best animated short 2019), and offbeat and informative TV documentaries (“Belgian is the new hipster”, “The rise of the plastic sandal”, “The Snuls”…), or ambitious and societal ones (“Slavery routes”, “Into battle”, “#Fatuglyslut”…).