Inside Hunters: How director Mathieu Mortelmans led the dramatisation of Europe’s biggest manhunt

Inside Hunters: How director Mathieu Mortelmans led the dramatisation of Europe’s biggest manhunt


By Michael Pickard
October 13, 2026

The Director’s Chair

As Belgian drama Hunters completes post-production, director and showrunner Mathieu Mortelmans tells DQ how he dramatised a true story set between the Charlie Hebdo and Brussels terror attacks, how he filmed in the real locations and why he wanted to put the emotional toll on the operators at the centre of the story.

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