“LUKA” is the latest feature written and directed by American-Belgian filmmaker Jessica Woodworth (b. 1971). The film is a gripping black-and-white audiovisual tour de force, set in Sicily and star…

Jessica Woodworth, Belgian-American filmmaker based in Belgium, has finished a new and ambitious film, “LUKA.” It’s an adaptation of the Kafkaesque novel “Il deserto dei Tartari” (1940), a.k.a. “Th…

The whole cinematic landscape has changed drastically—almost overnight—since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Late February, when it still was business as usual, I met American-born film d…

‘King of the Belgians’ has been the official title of 56-year-old Belgian monarch, King Filip, for the past three years, but now it also refers to a lighthearted, delightful, and at the…