---
name: "Alain Dessauvage"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alain-dessauvage"
fi1m_id: "alain-dessauvage"
imdb_id: "nm0220918"
tmdb_id: 236911
wikidata_id: "Q19967428"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "31 December 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-25T10:07:39.935213+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alain Dessauvage

## Identity

Alain Dessauvage

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alain-dessauvage
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alain-dessauvage
- **IMDb ID:** nm0220918
- **TMDB ID:** 236911
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19967428
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Dessauvage, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19967428, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236911

Editor. Born 31 December 1973 in Roeselare.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 31 December 1973, Roeselare
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Angelo Tijssens](https://film.one/person/angelo-tijssens.md), [Lukas Dhont](https://film.one/person/lukas-dhont.md), [Michiel Dhont](https://film.one/person/michiel-dhont.md)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 76 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 2, War 2
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $16m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Dessauvage, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19967428, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236911

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Moffie*](https://film.one/film/moffie.md) (80)
- **Hulu:** [*Small Things Like These*](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alain Dessauvage is a Belgian film editor. Born on 31 December 1973 in Roeselare, he graduated in 1994 from the RITS (now RITCS) in Brussels in the image, sound and editing section.

He has edited numerous feature films, including *Moscow, Belgium* (2008), *Bullhead* (2011), for which he received the Magritte Award for Best Editing, *Girl* (2018), *Close* (2022) and *Small Things Like These* (2024). He has collaborated repeatedly with directors such as Lukas Dhont.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Coward* (2026), Fi1m 66, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/coward.md)
- *Small Things Like These* (2024), Fi1m 79, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md)
- *Close* (2022), Fi1m 75, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/close.md)
- *Moffie* (2020), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/moffie.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Coward* (2026), Editor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/coward.md)
- *Mariinka* (2026), Editor, Supervising Editor
- *Skateboarding Is Not for Girls* (2026), Editor
- *A Survivor's Tale* (2026), Editor
- *Mexico 86* (2025), Editor
- *Small Things Like These* (2024), Editor — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md)
- *Draw for Change: Tree of Violence* (2024), Editor
- *The Very Tired Man and the Woman Who Passionately Adored Bonsai* (2022), Editor
- *Close* (2022), Editor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/close.md)
- *Dreaming Walls* (2022), Editor
- *Nowhere* (2022), Editor
- *La Civil* (2021), Editor
- *Our Nature* (2021), Editor
- *The Silencing* (2020), Editor
- *Moffie* (2020), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/moffie.md)
- *Cleo* (2019), Editor
- *Patrick* (2019), Editor
- *Girl* (2018), Editor
- *The Day the Dogs Disappeared* (2018), Editor
- *Racer and the Jailbird* (2017), Editor
- *Flemish Heaven* (2016), Editor
- *Vincent* (2016), Editor
- *Couple in a Hole* (2016), Editor
- *The Land of the Enlightened* (2016), Editorial Consultant
- *The Ardennes* (2015), Editor
- *Marry Me* (2015), Editor
- *The Sky Above Us* (2015), Editor
- *Love is the Word* (2013), Editor
- *Bad Hunter* (2013), Editor
- *Dura Lex* (2013), Editor
- *The Resurrection of a Bastard* (2013), Editor
- *Brasserie Romance* (2012), Editor
- *Offline* (2012), Editor
- *Las Meninas* (2012), Editor
- *Comrade Kim Goes Flying* (2012), Editor
- *De Vijfhoek* (2012), series, Editor
- *Bullhead* (2011), Editor
- *Frits and Freddy* (2010), Editor
- *Oxygen* (2010), Editor
- *Na Wewe* (2010), Editorial Consultant
- *Nighthawks* (2009), Editor
- *Code 37* (2009), series, Editor
- *Limo* (2009), Editor
- *Moscow, Belgium* (2008), Editor
- *De Zondvloed* (2006), Editor
- *Tanghi Argentini* (2006), Editor
- *Russian Dolls: Sex Trade* (2005), series, Editor
- *Carlo* (2004), Editor
- *Team Spirit: De serie* (2003), series, Editor
- *Gridlock* (2001), Editor
- *Oh My God?!* (2001), Editor
- *Thread* (2000), Editor
- *The Assignment*, Editor

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