''L'imitateur'' is a 1982 Belgian documentary

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

written and directed by

Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities. Van Dormael spent his childh ...

. The short film was shot in 1982 in Belgium. ''L'imitateur'' tells the story of two mentally disabled which do a brief intrusion into the world of "normal people". The film was awarded the Best Documentary and Best Short Film at the 1983 Brussels Film Festival. In 2011, it appeared at the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival held in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

in the retrospective dedicated to Van Dormael.

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* 1982 films 1982 short films Belgian short documentary films 1980s Swedish-language films Films directed by Jaco Van Dormael 1980s short documentary films 1982 documentary films Documentary films about people with disability Documentary films about mental health {{short-documentary-film-stub