Official Selection: 10 Directors To Watch In 2012
—Variety

"...Roskam could inherit the heated world of double-crossers and violent avengers that put Martin Scorse on the map. "
—Eric Kohn, Indiewire

Born in the Limburg region of Flemish Belgium in 1972, Michaël R. Roskam attended the St. Lucas Academy of Fine Arts in Brussells, where he studied painting and contemporary art, and the Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam where he graduated in 2005 with a master degree in script writing and development. Since then, Roskam has directed several short films which were selected and awarded internationally. His critically lauded debut feature film BULLHEAD, based on his own script, in his own words, “relates to the hormones mafia like Hamlet relates to the Danish royal family.” The film is set in his home town of Sint-Truiden and Roskam went to great lengths to paint a correct picture of cattle farming in Belgium from the 1980s to the present.

“BULLHEAD is a grotesque tragedy about fate and how our lives are sometimes determined by events over which we have no control,” Roskam says about his debut film. “It is a film about people being driven to extremes. It is not about cowboys and Indians, about good or evil, but about how seemingly small events can sometimes have huge consequences for the people involved. Their fate is also their destiny.”