| Maedeli la brèche | |
| Director: | Jaco Van Dormael |
| Music: | Pierre Van Dormael |
| Cinematography: | Hugo Kovensky |
| Editing: | Véronique Saenz |
| Runtime: | 18 minutes |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Language: | Swedish French |
Maedeli la brèche is a 1980 Belgian short film written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael. The short film was shot in 1980 in Belgium with a Super 35 camera. The film starred Nico d'Oreye, Julie Dubart, Colette Forton, Marie-José Mgank and Jean-François Dufranne. The original music score was written by Pierre Van Dormael, Jaco's brother. Van Dormael wrote the film while he was a student at the INSAS in Brussels.[1]
On June 7, 1981, Maedeli la brèche won the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the 8th Student Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[2] It was awarded the Best Screenplay and the Best Short Film at the 1981 Festival de Bruxelles.[3] It also received the Channel 4 Award at the 1983 Munich Film Festival.[3] In 2011, it appeared at the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival held in Turin in the retrospective dedicated to Van Dormael.[4]