“The images of the society that we produce are those of the society that we are building”
André Bossuroy | Director
After starting his career as a Civil engineer in Biotechnology, André Bossuroy chose a cinematographic path by turning to film production. André develops intercultural projects based on the production of documentary films and educational interdisciplinary workshops with artists and young people. His films are broadcasted by ARTE.tv, RTBF, VRT and European TV channels. Since 1999, its activities have offered a number of young Europeans the chance to bross the world assuming the role of citizen-reporter. Their reports are an invitation to gain a better understanding of our European society, its past, its ways of living, its institutions, its questions, and its fragilities.
Teasers of Bossuroy's historical documentary films
In 2012 Bossuroy's film "Etty Hillesum, The Convoi" was selected to be part of the 25 iconic projects (pages 60-61) of the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Commission.
Other television productions followed : 'Ich bin' (2012) about the White Rose resistance group with Hans and Sophie Scholl (Germany), the Maquis of Vercors and the Rafle of Vel d'Hiv (France) and the Katyn forest massacre (Russia); 'The Ramparts of Warsaw' (2014) about the Warsaw uprising in 1944; '30 years ago, the Fall of the Berlin Wall' (ARTE 2019).
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2026, Bossuroy is producing a documentary broadcast by the Belgian public channel RTBF, L'ombre et le Juste, about the life of a hidden Jewish child.
This film presents the first pilot project of Living Memorials, carried out between 2020 and 2022 with the support of the EVZ Foundation and the German Federal Foreign Office as part of the Young People Remember program. The project explores the concept of “living memorials” through an interdisciplinary approach combining history, art, and transmission, involving young people, teachers, artists, and international experts. It is based on two complementary memorial sites: the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, symbolizing the planning of the Holocaust, and the sites linked to the Jewish Bielski partisans around Novogrudok in Belarus, illustrating Jewish resistance during the Second World War.