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Rob Rombout, born July 8, 1953 in Amsterdam, is a Belgian filmmaker, documentary filmmaker and teacher.

Biography
Rob Rombout, born in Amsterdam in 1953, is a filmmaker and professor of documentary cinema. Since 1988, he has been teaching directing at Sint Lukas (LUCA) in Brussels, he has also been a professor at INSAS, RITS, Lusofona (Lisbon), at the University of Paris 8 and at Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. He is co-founder of the international master of documentaries: "Doc-Nomads" bringing together students from all over the world. The program is spread across several global institutions. Rob Rombout also leads workshops around the world (Brazil, Vietnam, China, Canada, United States, Lebanon)

Since L’homme qui en disait trop (The Man Who Said Too Much) in 1985, he has directed around fifteen documentaries, several of which have won international awards. Notably "Entre deux tours" (1987), Perm-mission (1999), Le Piège de Kerguelen (2000), Amsterdam via Amsterdam (co-directed with Rogier van Eck), Queen Mary 2, Birth of a legend (2004) or even Amsterdam Stories (2012) which relates a journey through the cities of Amsterdam in the United States.

The majority of these films reflect his taste for travel and his fascination with the sea. Rob Rombout's documentaries are based on practices commonly associated with fiction while applying these processes to other documentaries. He recently made a film on the Dutch writer Robert van Gulik (In the footsteps of Robert van Gulik, 2015, 87 min).

Rob Rombout was a member of the "Brouillon d'un rêve" commission (SCAM Paris) and of the Brussels Audiovisual Center Commission, of the VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds), but also vice-president of the Belgian Committee of SCAM from 1998 to 2005, and from 2009 to 2013.

Documentaries

 * 1985 : L’Homme qui en disait trop (the story of a shop steward in a struggle against his former employer)
 * 1986 : Pas de cadeau pour Noël (the uprooting and disillusionment of a Rwandan in Liège)
 * 1987 : Entre deux tours (two buildings represent two extremely different philosophies)
 * 1990 : Nord-Express (the train that connects Paris to Moscow since 1896)
 * 1992 : Queen Elizabeth 2, Transatlantique (the last transatlantic cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2)
 * 1994 : Île Noire (portrait of an oil rig in the North Sea)
 * 1995 : Les Açores de Madredeus (roadmovie in the Azores with the Portuguese music group Madredeus)
 * 1997 : Amsterdam via Amsterdam
 * 1999 : Perm-mission (meeting with Russian filmmakers in Perm)
 * 2000 : Le Piège de Kerguelen (a scientific expedition to the Kerguelen Islands)
 * 2001 : Canton, la Chinoise (portrait of the city of Canton, China co-production: Robert Cahen)
 * 2002 : Les Passagers de l’Alsace (portrait of eight characters in Alsace)
 * 2003 : Overloon Penitentiary Centre (Kaleidoscope series, portrait of a prison in Holland)
 * 2004 : Amsterdam via Amsterdam (Cinema Expedition co-director: Rogier van Eck)
 * 2004 : Queen Mary 2, la Reine de la Mer (documentary on the construction and "maiden voyage" of the Queen Mary 2)
 * 2004 : The Jagiellonian University (Kaleidoscope series, portrait of the University of Krakow, Poland)
 * 2010 : Panamerica, roadmovie
 * 2012 : Amsterdam Stories (road movie from east to west of the United States, passing through the sixteen places named Amsterdam)
 * 2016 : On the track of Robert Van Gulik (portrait of the writer)
 * 2024: Amsterdam Side-by-side, co-directed by Rogier van Eck (90 min)