Belgian director Joachim Lafosse is accused by a number of of his collaborators, together with Virginie Efira, of acts that might quantity to ethical harassment, sexual harassment and sexual assault, based on an investigation printed by the French each day Libération.
Round ten girls, together with screenwriters, actresses and technicians, clarify that the director would have established an atmosphere “poisonous” et “destabilizing” throughout his filming. The testimonies, which cowl a interval of twenty years, report tensions, humiliation, denigration and psychological stress on the a part of the filmmaker, described as intentionally creating conflicts.
Some workers additionally converse of a sexualized environment and inappropriate advances. Additionally they denounce a “right-of-way system” and one “predation sample“established on the director’s units. Belgian actress Virginie Efira, who labored with the filmmaker on the movie”Proceed” (2019), confided that this filming expertise included “most likely” from “pires“of his profession, describing”a group that could not take it anymore“.
