Real Faces

Original Title|Real Faces

Lang | 92' | 2025 (Completed)

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Writer	Leni Huyghe, Vincent Vanneste
Director	Leni Huyghe
Producer	Elisa Heene

Full credits

On the heels of a difficult break-up, casting agent Julia (29) is conflicted about her new job in Brussels – casting everyday people for a perfume campaign. As her relationship with flatmate Eliott (32) deepens, Julia’s sense of boundaries between the idealized images she populates, and the life she wants, becomes blurred.

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synopsis

Julia (29), an ambitious casting director, moves to Brussels and finds a freelance job in the advertising industry and meets Eliott (32), a reclused microbiologist who studies lichen and works on his PhD. Intrigued by each other’s opposing professions and personalities, Julia and Eliott quickly grow closer. Julia gets assigned an important perfume ad and she sees it as the ultimate opportunity to prove herself. After her frantic long working days, Eliott is her only source of tranquility. Until Julia loses herself and crosses people’s boundaries, including Eliott’s. During the perfume ad shoot, things spiral out of control, pushing Julia to finally decide to take her life in her own hands.

Credits

Writer
Leni Huyghe, Vincent Vanneste
Director
Leni Huyghe
Producer
Elisa Heene
Cast
Gorges Ocloo, Leonie Buysse
Editing
Tom Denoyette
Photography
Grimm Vandekerckhove
Art direction
Natalia Treviño
Costume
Alexandra Sebbag
Sound
Aïda Merghoub
Makeup
Marie Colet
Music
Natasha Pirard & LB Marszalek
Still photography
Angela Otten & Dhiaa Biya

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Majority
Belgium
Genre
Lang
Year of production

2025
Production status
Completed
Original title
Real Faces
Original language
Dutch, French

Technical specs

Running time
92'
Sound format
5.1 (+sub) + Dolby
Available formats
DCP
Colour
Colour

Contact & sales

Contact

Mirage

Aalststraat 7-11
1000 Brussel
België

elisa@miragefilms.be

www.miragefilms.be

Details
Sales

Miguel Govea

Rue Alexandre Dumas 40
75011 Parijs
Frankrijk

www.alief.co.uk

Festivals & awards

Festivals

2025: World premiere - SXSW (US); 2025: Filmoteca de Galicia (SP); 2025: INTERSECCIÓN (SP); 2025: Thessaloniki (GR)

Awards

No award information available.

Partners

Co-production partners

Hélicotronc

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Casa Kafka, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Government, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel (CCA), Creative Europe MEDIA, VOO, Be TV, Arras Days Film Festival