The Eighth Day & Toto the Hero

Toto the Hero tells the story of an old man, Thomas, looking back on a life blighted by bitterness and envy due to a fantasy that he and a rich neighbor were swapped at birth. Past and present intermingle as Thomas tries to make sense of his life in a manner reminiscent of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective

The Eighth Day tells the story of a man and his autistic brother. The power of the portrayal won the two actors the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival

Jaco van Dormael's work has a strange poetry; it is simultaneously dark and optimistic, alive with energy and sharp humour, suffused with humanity and composed with a structural inventiveness that is breathtaking to behold