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Annabel Verbeke, born in Ypres, Belgium in 1987, is a documentary filmmaker.
In 2010, Annabel graduated magna cum laude at RITCS Film School in Brussels. Her graduation film "Les enfants de la mer/mère" - "Children of the sea" won 8 international awards and was selected by more than 20 international film festivals. Her next film "We Will Remember Them” was the closing film of Visions Du Réel 2018 and the best watched documentary film on Flanders national broadcasters in the same year.

As a filmmaker, Annabel is looking for beauty in the most modest and common things surrounding us.  She always has been fascinated by subjects that are seemingly common but at the same not always very visible. She likes to unhide and unravel these fascinating stories, bringing both its poetry and absurdity to the surface. This often neglected but obvious beauty is the core of Annabel essayistic and serene filmic approach. Banality is changed into poetry, darkness of life countered with refined humor.

In the past years, Annabel has been working as a freelancer for several broadcasters and production companies, directing commissioned documentary films, series and tv programs.

At the moment Annabel is developing a documentary series in collaboration with both national Belgian broadcasters VRT-Canvas and RTBF, with the support from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, called "T(w)o Work", about newcomers in Belgium and their long-term struggle to find a proper job in the country they want to call home from now. Annabel will be the leading director, managing and tutoring a group of non-European directors, all graduated from DocNomads, a joint masters program in documentary filmmaking organised by 3 European Universities.