Like a Fortress - Lou Colpé

After the sudden disappearance of her partner one summer in Corsica, Lou Colpé returns to Durnal. Their home, a place where the absence is tangible, is transformed into a sanctuary. Everything there becomes a treasure and a ritual. She films what is reinvented every day: her survival. A moving manual for grief, Like a Fortress fort captivates with its luminosity, its humour and its masterful ode to friendship.

Lou Colpé is a documentary film director. She began filming on a daily basis as a teenager, and it is this practice of keeping a video diary that informs her filmmaking. She spends part of her time at the Le CODE psychiatric day centre in Anderlecht, where she runs video, radio and writing workshops. She also collaborates on radio documentary projects. She contributes to the film and visual arts programme at the Intime Festival. Her first feature-length documentary, Comme un château fort, had its world premiere at the Visions du Réel Festival in Switzerland in April 2026.