Nathan Naenen

Nathan Naenen is an actor, director and assistant director based in Brussels, Belgium. As an actor he appeared in several series and films such as Liefdestips aan mezelf, The Mercator Trail and wtFOCK. After receiving his master’s degree in Audiovisual Arts at RITCS Brussels with his thesis film Wild Youth, he started working as an assistant director on different films such as Holly by Fien Troch, Real Faces by Leni Huyghe and Skiff by Cecilia Verheyden. 

« While working as an assistant director, I kept working on my own stories. Maybe because of my background as an actor, my films are often small human stories that explore the broad gala of the characters’ emotions and its variety of nuances. How people interact with each other, their environment and especially themselves is what I find fascinating. I will always try to find a way to visually externalise introspection of human beings.”

Tough

LIM 2025

Tough follows Cas (31) as he anxiously awaits the birth of his son, triggering painful memories from his youth and the pressures of imposed ‘masculinity’. Through a mosaic narrative of past and present, we uncover his fear of fatherhood and his struggle to confront his traumas in order to become a good future parent.