Guillaume and Stéphane Malandrin settled several years ago in the Belgian capital where they work together on writing, directing and producing films. Guillaume, who studied at the INSAS, quickly became involved in the Belgian film industry, notably by founding Le Parti Production with Vincent Tavier, Stéphane Vuillet and Philippe Kauffman, a company with which he has produced, among others, AALTRA by Kervern and Delépine, KOMMA by Martine Doyen, or PANIQUE AU VILLAGE by Patar and Aubier, also co-writing the latter. Stéphane, on the other hand, joined his brother after studying philosophy. He co-writes and codirects his brother's films, also contributing to the screenplay of 25° EN HIVER by Stéphane Vuillet, and writes books for children.

Film after film, the two of them are building up a slightly wacky world, tinged with psychoanalysis and surrealism as testified by the title-manifestos of their feature films: CA M’EST EGAL SI DEMAIN N’ARRIVE PAS, OU EST PASSEE LA MAIN DE L’HOMME SANS TETE ?, JE SUIS MORT MAIS J’AI DES AMIS. The first two are dark family stories. A father just released from prison, an absent mother, a young boy that no one pays attention to… in CA M’EST EGAL SI DEMAIN N’ARRIVE PAS, a family tries to recreate the bonds that it has never known. In an reverse movement, the heroine of OU EST LA MAIN DE L’HOMME SANS TETE ?, played by Cécile de France, Olympic champion for the 10-meter dive, tries almost unwittingly to rid herself of the alienating ties that link her to her father, her coach and an ogre-like figure who stifles his offspring, child after child. An introspective and paranoid journey into the mind of a confused champion, this psychological thriller conceals the story of an impossible yet liberating loss. The direction simulates the confusion that the heroine is drowning in, scrambling the border between dreams and reality, winding its way through a genuine narrative labyrinth, served by the ghostly setting of the Koekelberg basilica.

In their latest film, JE SUIS MORT MAIS J’AI DES AMIS, the Malandrin Brothers replace the family circle with friends and ask what remains of loyalty in friendship after death. While they still display a certain penchant for the absurd, this no longer serves cruel fate but rather humour tinged with melancholy. JE SUIS MORT relates the new lease of life that takes hold of two rockers in their late forties, in turn grouchy and dreamy, when their old sidekick suddenly dies. How can the vows of friendship be honoured beyond death? Yvan and Wim set off on a long journey that is going to bring them closer. They are joined by a third party: the air force pilot lover that their old friend had always hidden from them. For the three of them, this journey gradually turns into an inner voyage inspiring introspection in order to open up to others. The path, strewn with obstacles, leads them to the wilds of Quebec where they reconcile with love, life and death. The film was released in mid-June 2015 in Belgium and in mid-July of the same year in France.

Finally, as part of the Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture celebrations, the Malandrin Brothers made a comical and caustic short film on the historic visit of Van Gogh to the Hainaut region of Belgium through an investigation into Emilio Saltarelli, the direct, self-proclaimed descendant of the artist.