Short film by Charlotte Verminck (26) continues to amaze and opens Italian film festival: “An incredible experience”
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- Sep 23
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KW Editorial Team - September 24, 2025, 10:19
A new milestone for filmmaker Charlotte Verminck (26) from Knokke-Heist. Her short film Mind of Thoughts opened the 10th edition of the Ferrara Film Festival in Italy - in the presence of Oscar winner Paul Haggis. “It was an incredible experience to see our film screened alongside an Oscar-winning classic and to feel how warmly Mind of Thoughts was received by the Italian audience,” says Charlotte.
Mind of Thoughts is an entirely Belgian production and had its world premiere earlier this year at the 25th Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film has since won awards in both Los Angeles and New York and continues its journey along the international festival circuit. Later this month, it will screen in Worcester (UK) and Barcelona (Spain). A Belgian premiere is still in the works.
Last weekend, her film officially opened the Ferrara Film Festival in Italy. The screening took place in the presence of Paul Haggis himself — the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director of Crash and Million Dollar Baby — as well as renowned composer Ron Jones (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Family Guy) and internationally acclaimed actor Kabir Bedi, known from the iconic Italian TV series Sandokan and the James Bond film Octopussy.
Praise
In the historic Teatro Nuovo, located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Ferrara, Charlotte was welcomed on stage together with artistic director Maximilian Law. Law praised her work, calling her “a rising female director with a unique vision” and describing Mind of Thoughts as “visually and narratively stunning.”
“It was an incredible experience to see our film screened alongside an Oscar-winning classic and to feel how warmly Mind of Thoughts was received by the Italian audience,” says Charlotte Verminck. “To have our work shown in such an iconic venue as the Teatro Nuovo, in a program next to Crash, is something I will never forget. The fact that this happened during an edition where 50 percent of the films were directed by women makes it even more special to me — representation in film is something I strongly advocate for.” (MM)
