NINA DEGRAEVE

After a documentary experience at RTE-NEWS Belfast, Nina Degraeve began film studies in Directing and Producing at HELB – Ilya Prigogine in Brussels, from which she graduated in 2017.

Passionate about contemporary art, she dedicated her first student documentary to Belarusian painter Igor Tishin. She then directed « Boris Lehman: Portrait of the Unfinished », focusing on the Belgian filmmaker. During her final year at film school, she worked as a production assistant intern at Les Films du Fleuve, under the direction of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Her graduation film, « Ray Richardson: Our Side of the Water », about the London-based artist, was selected and screened at festivals around the world, where it won eight awards.

After completing her thesis on the work of filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, Nina was invited to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia to lead the conference « Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev – Context in Music and Silence ».

In 2023, she directed her first feature-length documentary entitled « The Heart of Heritage », about Belgium’s Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH), one of the most renowned institutions in the world and a major center for the protection of Art in Belgium.

In 2025, she directed the Art Film « Portrait of Desire »  and featured the artist Romina Remmo, who invites us to dive into the sensory universe of her suggestive work, imbued with eroticism.

She was part of the Emile Cantillon jury at the "Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur - FIFF" (2016) as well as the young jury at the "Festival Méditerranéen de Bruxelles" (2016) and the Disability Film Festival in Leuven (2023).