In 1998, Van Dormael participated in the project "Spotlights on a Massacre: 10 Films Against 100 Million Antipersonnel Land Mines", a collection of short films that works as an anti-land mine campaign. The same year he was also a member of the jury at the 51st Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, "Toto le héros" received the Best Belgian Screenplay 1984–1999 Award at the 13th Joseph Plateau Awards.