Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film

The Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film (French: Magritte du meilleur premier film) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is one of the Magritte Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in Belgian cinematic achievements.^[1]

Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First award	2013
Currently held by	Playground (2021)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

It was introduced in 2013 as an audience award.^[2] However, its first winner Dead Man Talking was announced during the 66th Cannes Film Festival, three months later the 3rd Magritte Awards ceremony.^[3] In 2016, the Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film became a merit category. As of the 2022 ceremony, Playground is the most recent winner in this category.

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees.

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)
2012 (3rd)	Dead Man Talking		Patrick Ridremont
	Mobile Home		François Pirot [fr; ru; uk]
	Torpedo		Matthieu Donck [fr]
2013 (4th)	A Song for My Mother	Une chanson pour ma mère	Joël Franka [fr]
	In The Bag of Flour	Le Sac de farine	Kadija Leclère
	BXL/USA [fr]		Gaëtan Bevernaege
2014 (5th)	I'll Bury You	Je te survivrai	Sylvestre Sbille [fr]
	Marbie, star de Couillu-les-Deux-Églises [fr]		Dominique Smeets
	Vertigo of Possibilities	Le Vertige des possibles	Vivianne Perelmuter
2015 (6th)	All Cats Are Grey	Tous les chats sont gris	Savina Dellicour
	Next Year [fr; nl]	L'Année prochaine	Vania Leturcq [fr]
	Prejudice	Préjudice	Antoine Cuypers [fr]
2016 (7th)	Keeper		Guillaume Senez
	Death by Death	Je me tue à le dire	Xavier Seron [fr]
	Parasol		Valéry Rosier [fr]
2017 (8th)	Don't Tell Her	Faut pas lui dire	Solange Cicurel [fr]
	Even Lovers Get the Blues		Laurent Micheli
	Sonar		Jean-Philippe Martin
	Spit 'n' Split		Jérôme Vandewattyne
	Staying in the Woods	Je suis resté dans les bois	Michaël Bier, Erika Sainte and Vincent Solheid [fr]
2018 (9th)	Bitter Flowers		Olivier Meys
	Above the Law	Tueurs	François Troukens [fa; fr; nl] and Jean-François Hensgens [fa; fr]
	The Benefit of the Doubt	Une Part d'ombre	Samuel Tilman [fr]
	The Faithful Son	La Part sauvage	Guérin Van de Vorst [fr]
2019 (10th)	Our Mothers	Nuestras madres	César Díaz
	Alone at My Wedding	Seule à mon mariage	Marta Bergman
	Escapada		Sarah Hirtt
	For a Happy Life	Pour vivre heureux	Dimitri Linder and Salima Sarah Glamine
	Girls on the Run	Cavale	Virginie Gourmel

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)
2020/21 (11th)	Playground	Un monde	Laura Wandel
	Jumbo		Zoé Wittock
	Madly in Life	Une vie démente	Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni
	Mother Schmuckers	Fils de plouc	Harpo Guit and Lenny Guit