Skip to main content

RAI FILM Festival takes place on 27-30 March 2025. Learn more.

Search our film database

The Gilles of La Louvière and the Chinels of Fosses-la-Ville

Directed by Michele Trentini

2014 – 9'

Synopsis

In the Catholic, French-speaking part of Belgium, monumental, all-encompassing masquerades take place in the middle of Lent.

This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 – RITUAL ARMADAS**. Often the masquerade is represented by an imaginary, colourful, rumbustious army, with a distinct martial allure of its own.

Films included in DVD 6: Coraggio coscritti: take heart, all new recruits! (25 minutes), One day in Agnita (10 minutes), Once upon a time in Val di Fiemme (Na vòlta n val de Fiemme) (23 minutes), Fiddling away Carnival in Caffaro (12:20 minutes), The Gilles of La Louvière and the Chinels of Fosses-la-Ville (9 minutes), We can be heroes just for (two) days. The Jannisaries of Naoussa (20 minutes).

RAI FILM Festival 2025

The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.