Samy Szlingerbaum (Belgium, 1950-1986) was a screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His parents migrated from Poland to Belgium in 1947. He began his career as a filmmaker by co-directing the 1973 short film Le 15/8 with Chantal Akerman. He then directed two short films before making Bruxelles-Transit (1980), his only full-length film. Spoken in Yiddish, the film tells the story of his parents’ move to Brussels and the life they built there after the Second World War. Szlingerbaum died at the age of 36.