Thierry Michel

From coal mines to prisons, from Brazil and the Maghreb to black Africa, Thierry Michel has always denounced peoples’ distress and shared their revolts, sometimes in a mixture of fiction and reality. Born on 13 October 1952 in Charleroi in Belgium in an industrial region known as “Black Country”, Thierry Michel began studying at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Brussels at age 16. In 1976, he started working at the Belgian television where he made numerous reports around the world. He then went on to filmmaking. He directed two feature-length fiction films, Hiver 60 which dealt with his country’s political situation and Issue de secours, a very personal and poetic piece. Yet his oeuvre is especially known for his many documentaries, which have received international recognition and awards and have been shown around the world. Among them are Gosses de Rio; Zaïre, le cycle du serpent; Donka, X-Ray of an African Hospital; Mobutu, King of Zaire; Iran: Veiled Appearances , Congo River, Katanga Business, The Chebeya affair,...

Thierry Michel is a film director, a journalist and a photographer. He also leads documentary film writing and directing seminars around the world.

2015 : L'Homme qui répare les femmes : La Colère d'Hippocrate, doc, 112'
2013 : L'irrésistible ascension de Moïse Katumbi, 58’ et 80’
2013 : Moïse Katumbi, foot, business & politique, doc, 80’
2012 : L'affaire Chebeya, un crime d'État ?, doc, 100’
2010 : Mémoire du Congo-Zaïre. Fragments inédits, doc,
2010 : Katanga, la guerre du cuivre, doc,
2009 : Katanga Business, doc, 120’
2009 : Mines de tracas au Katanga, doc, 52’
2009 : Fétiches et Minerais, doc, 31’
2009 : Métamorphose d'une gare, doc, 80’
2009 : Soeur Sourire, les coulisses d'un tournage, making of
2006 : Congo River, doc, 116’
2002 : Iran sous le voile des apparences, doc, 90’
1999 : Mobutu roi du Zaïre, doc, 135’
1996 : Donka, radioscopie d'un hôpital africain, doc, 58’et 85’
1995 : Les Derniers Colons, doc, 61’
1995 : Nostalgies post coloniales, doc
1994 : Somalie, l'humanitaire s'en va en guerre, doc, 85’
1993 : La Grâce perdue d'Alain Van der Biest, doc
1992 : Zaïre, le cycle du serpent, doc, 85’
1990 : Gosses de Rio, doc, 48’
1990 : À fleur de terre, doc, 62’
1988 : Issue de secours, doc, 90’
1985 : Hôtel particulier, doc, 90’
1982 : Chronique des saisons d'acier, doc, 93’
1982 : Hiver 60, doc, 90’
1975 : Pays Noir, Pays Rouge, doc
1973 : Portrait d'un auto-portrait, doc