Marion Hänsel Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Belgian filmmaker Marion Hänsel began her career as an actress. After studying acting in some of the finest performance schools in the Western world, she attended the French Circus School then continued training in France as a mime artist. Haensel studied drama in Brussels, and finally, she took...Read More

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Sounds of Sand

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Issaka Sawadogo, Carole Karemara, Asma Nouman Aden, Said Abdallah Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed

Synopsis: Belgian director Marion Hänsel's feature Si le vent soulève les sables unfolds in a desert village that is being crushed under the weight of drought (which has dried the local well out completely) and decaying livestock. Though the majority of the populace migrates to the south in an essential Read More

2006
Gilles' Wife

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Alice Verlinden, Chloe Verlinden

Synopsis: A woman struggles to hold on to the man she loves in this drama set in the 1930s from Belgian filmmaker Frédéric Fonteyne. Elisa (Emmanuelle Devos) is a housewife who is passionately devoted to her husband, Gilles (Clovis Cornillac), who works in a steel mill. Despite taking care of twin daughters Read More

11/16/05
Hell

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Carole Bouquet, Guillaume Canet

Synopsis: Director Danis Tanovic picks up where the late-Krzysztof Kieslowski left off by taking on the second installment of Kieslowski's "Heaven," "Hell," and "Purgatory" trilogy (the first was adapted by Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer) with this tale of a family whose dark past returns with a Read More

2005
25 Degrees en Hiver

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carmen Maura, Jacques Gamblin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Raphaëlle Molinier, Pedro Romero

Synopsis: One man finds himself pulled in three directions at once by his family and a chance acquaintance in this breakneck comedy. Miguel (Jacques Gamblin) is a single parent and Spanish expatriate living in Belgium who has to deal with a young daughter, Laura (Raphaelle Molinier), his busybody mother Read More

2004
No Man's Land

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Branco Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Katrin Cartlidge

Synopsis: The grim futility of the war between Bosnia and Serbia is reduced to its essence as two enemy soldiers are forced to share a wary trust for one another in this drama. A group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing upon Serbian territory during a misty night when the fog lifts at daybreak, making them Read More

12/7/01
Nuages

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: Marion Hansel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings on raising her young son on her own, while carefully shot and selected footage of different cloud formations from around the world provide a Read More

2001
Come Undone

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jérémie Elkaïm, Stephane Rideau, Marie Matheron, Dominique Reymond, Laetitia Legrix

Synopsis: The third collaboration between screenwriter Stephane Bouquet and writer/director Sebastien Lifshitz, Presque Rien is the story of a young French man coming to terms with his mother's depression, and his own homosexuality, during a summer holiday in France. Delicately handsome Mathieu (Jeremie Read More

6/7/00
The Quarry

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Lynch, Jonne Phillips, Oscar Petersen, Sylvia Esau, Jody Abrahams

Synopsis: Marion Hansel directed this Belgian-French-Dutch-Spanish drama, adapted from the novel by Damon Galgut, about an escaped criminal (John Lynch), who gets a lift from a minister (Serge-Henri Valcke). When the minister makes a sexual advance, the two skirmish -- leading to the minister's accidental Read More

1/14/00
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Crew: Associate Producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephen Rea, Ling Chu, Adrian Brine, Maka Kotto, Mischa Aznavour

Synopsis: Two very different people become friends and partners in this nautical drama. Nikos (Stephen Rea) is a radio man working on a Greek freighter when he finds himself stranded in Hong Kong after the firm that owned his ship suddenly goes out of business. Nikos is already depressed over his recent Read More

1995
Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmen Maura, Didier Bezace, Samuel Mussen, Jean-Pierre Cassel, André Delvaux

Synopsis: Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a Read More

1992
Il Maestro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Charles Aznavour, Andréa Ferréol, Francis Le Maire

Synopsis: Through a series of flashbacks, the reason behind the mysterious inability of a famous conductor (Malcom McDowell) to continue preparing for a series of concerts is revealed. It all began while the conductor, a Jew, was hiding from the Nazis in a disused Italian convent, pretending to be a bank Read More

1989
Les Noces Barbares

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marianne Basler, Thierry Frémont, André Penvern

Synopsis: Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn for his mother's affection. Nicole enters into a Read More

1987
Dust

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Birkin, Trevor Howard, John Matshikiza, Nadine Uwampa, Lourdes Christina Sayo

Synopsis: This French-Belgian co-production is set in a remote, squalid South African farm. Jane Birkin stars as Magda, the "proper" farmer's daughter who murders her father (Trevor Howard) when she learns of an affair between him and a local woman (Nadine Uwampa). By rights, Magda should leave for parts Read More

10/31/86
De Stille Oceaan

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Moniek Kramer, Andrea Domburg, Julien Schoenaerts

Synopsis: Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Marian (Josee Ruiter). Marian is a journalist who has been working in Latin America and who arrives home just after her father dies to find out that Read More

1984
Le Lit

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Heinz Bennent, Natasha Parry, Francine Blistin, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: In this somber movie, Martin (Heinz Bennent), a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present. Director and writer Marion Hansel Read More

1983