Belgium
ON THE EDGE
105 MIN
2024
Alexia, 25, arrives as a trainee nurse in the closed ward of a psychiatric hospital, and meets Joëlle, the head nurse, who teaches her the job. Alexia is touched by the anger of Mila, a 20 year-old patient, who thinks she has no business being there. Despite Joëlle's warnings about keeping her distance from patients, Alexia gets close to Mila and puts all her energy into trying to get her out.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Benoit Roland
Director: Guérin van de Vorst, Sophie Muselle
Script: Guérin van de Vorst, Sophie Muselle
Director of Photography: Fiona Braillon
Production Design: Laurie Colson
Sound: Quentin Colette
Editing: Matyas Veress
Cast: Mara Taquin, Sasha Deprez, Hamza Essalouh, Nathalie Richard, Blanche Pembe
Production. Wrong Men

Awards
Best Film, Best Actress, Mar del Plata IFF, Argentina, 2024
Guérin Van de Vorst
Guérin Van de Vorst was born in Brussels in 1978. After studying cinema at film school IAD, he directed several short fiction films and documentaries selected in many festivals around the world. These films attempt to portray with humanity characters on the margins of society. His first feature film, The faithfull Son, was released in 2017.

Filmography
Bitch Rabbit (short, 2010), The Wild Part (short, 2012), Macedonian Trip (short, 2014), Ulysses (doc., 2016), Dumber than steak(short, 2015) The Faithful Son (2017), All the Fucking Love of the Word (2022), On the Edge (2024).

Sophie Muselle
Sophie Muselle, born in Liège in 1974, is a Belgian psychologist, director and screenwriter. She has had an atypical career, practicing several different professions in parallel. Her work in Armenia, in a psychiatric hospital, was to lay the foundations for the rest of her artistic career. She founded a theater troupe that brings together people with diverse experiences of madness and psychiatry, destigmatizing and questioning society. Since 2018, she has teamed up with Guerin van de Vorst to co-write and co-direct On the Edge, which is her first feature film.

Filmography
On the Edge (2024).

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