Nicolas Fransolet

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Nicolas Fransolet

Nicolas Fransolet is a Belgian-born director, cinematographer and photographer based in Montreal, Canada. With over five decades behind the camera, 35 years directing film and television, and more than 40 years in advertising, he has built a career that bridges commercial filmmaking, documentary storytelling and independent cinema. Fransolet began photographing the streets of Brussels at the age …

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The Hummingbird ProjectThe Hummingbird Project · 2019
The Hummingbird Project
6.22019
MovieThrillerDrama
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
War WitchWar Witch · 2012
War Witch
6.62012
MovieDramaWar
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Film belgeFilm belge · 1992
Film belge
6.01992
MovieComedy
Scene 23, Slow pan The wind whistles over the dykes of the Willebroek Canal. Armand sighs. The viewer should feel goose bumps under their thick sweater. Make it clear that at this moment, Armand is craving a cup of Borain coffee. Scene 456, Armand's farm Armand puts down his coffee cup. Through the window, he sees a beautiful Romanian refugee with AIDS playing the cello in the beet field. Behind Armand, his wife, a former RTBF announcer, commits suicide by hitting herself with hot potatoes. Scene 2,347, sublime landscape of Flanders Armand can't take it anymore: will he choose the position of deputy for the Vlaamse Blok or that of puppeteer subsidized by the CUCF? No one can say.
Wendy (Mao Remix)Wendy (Mao Remix) · 2026
Wendy (Mao Remix)
2026
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Official music video for “Wendy (Remix)”, the electronic reinterpretation of the Delta V track by Italian singer-songwriter Mao, released on 31 July 2026 as the closing chapter of the album “In fatti ostili RMX”. Mao’s remix holds the voice back for almost two minutes while the arrangement circles and expands, projecting the original songwriting into a nocturnal and rarefied space. Directed by Brussels-born, Montreal-based filmmaker Nicolas Fransolet and shot entirely in Tokyo, the film has no protagonist and no narrative. It follows the city through a single arc of hours, from daylight into night, moving inside the flow of streets, stations and suburbs. The images are observed rather than staged: what appears on screen is what happened in front of the lens. What emerges is the portrait of a place at once distant and familiar, where the vast scale of the metropolis and the smallness of individual gestures inhabit the same frame. Proximity and connection almost never coincide.

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Wendy (Mao Remix)Wendy (Mao Remix) · 2026
Wendy (Mao Remix)
2026
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Official music video for “Wendy (Remix)”, the electronic reinterpretation of the Delta V track by Italian singer-songwriter Mao, released on 31 July 2026 as the closing chapter of the album “In fatti ostili RMX”. Mao’s remix holds the voice back for almost two minutes while the arrangement circles and expands, projecting the original songwriting into a nocturnal and rarefied space. Directed by Brussels-born, Montreal-based filmmaker Nicolas Fransolet and shot entirely in Tokyo, the film has no protagonist and no narrative. It follows the city through a single arc of hours, from daylight into night, moving inside the flow of streets, stations and suburbs. The images are observed rather than staged: what appears on screen is what happened in front of the lens. What emerges is the portrait of a place at once distant and familiar, where the vast scale of the metropolis and the smallness of individual gestures inhabit the same frame. Proximity and connection almost never coincide.

Director