Belgian courtroom drama “We Believe You” swept the 22nd Seville European Film Festival , taking the Golden Giraldillo for best film plus two further Official Selection prizes as the Andalusian event wrapped its Nov. 7-15 edition.

The debut feature by co-directors Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys which bowed in the Berlinale’s new Perspectives strand – also scooped best screenplay and best actress for Myriem Akheddiou, confirming its status as one of the year’s European discoveries.

Set almost entirely inside a Belgian courthouse and anchored by a near hour-long custody hearing played in real time, the film centers on Alice, a mother fighting to protect her children from their father in a system that keeps shifting scrutiny back onto her.

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