Les Films du Fleuve

In 1975, when they began their career in video, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne created Derives, an organisation to help them produce their documentaries. In 1977, Derives was recognised as a Belgian French Community cinematographic and videographic workshop and very quickly began to produce documentaries by other filmmakers. Derives was also to become the organisation that produced the first works of fiction by the Dardennes (one short film and two feature length). In 1994, with the aim of separating their documentaries and fictional work and at the time that they had just started making their third feature film, La Promesse , the Dardenne brothers founded the society Les Film du Fleuve. The objective of this production house was not only to finance their own fictional work, but also to collaborate with foreign producers and directors on artistically ambitious projects. In 1999, following the magnificent success of Rosetta all over the world, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne d...