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Laura Wandel is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. She made her feature-length debut in 2021 with Playground, a drama film following the life of a seven-year-old girl dealing with the children's and adult's worlds.
Laura Wandel was born in 1984 in Brussels, Belgium. She is a director and writer, known for Playground (2021), Les corps étrangers (2014) and O Négatif (2010).
Feb 7, 2022 · Laura Wandel is the auteur behind “Playground” (“Un Monde”), her first feature, about the reality of schoolyard bullying. The film stars newcomer Maya Vanderbeque as seven-year-old...
Jul 11, 2021 · Filmed from a child’s perspective and telling a moving, subtle yet incisive tale about bullying at school, Laura Wandel ’s first feature film Playground [+. ] impressed audiences within the Un Certain Regard line-up of the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
May 8, 2024 · Laura Wandel, whose debut 'Playground' played at Cannes and was shortlisted for an Oscar, will make her sophomore feature with 'In Adam's Interest.'
Apr 19, 2022 · “She just set the screen alight”: Laura Wandel on Playground and its child star. The director tells us how her Cannes winner digs deeply into child psychology, and how she worked to get the best out of her extraordinary young lead Maya Vanderbeque.
Apr 21, 2022 · The Belgian director of harrowing Cannes stand-out Playground on the intricacies of making a film from the perspective of kids. B elgian director Laura Wandel won the Sutherland Award at the 2021 London Film Festival, awarded to the best debut feature in competition, which Wandel received for Un Monde (A World), released in the UK as Playground.
