Winners FFG2023
Grand Prix for Best Film
'Los delincuentes' by Rodrigo Moreno
Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack or Sound Design
Jerskin Fendrix for 'Poor Things'
North Sea Port Publieksprijs
'The Old Oak' van Ken Loach
Explore Award
'Slow' by Marija Kavtaradze
Explore Award - Special Mention
'The Sweet East' by Sean Price Williams
Joseph Plateau Honorary Award
Terence Davies
Joseph Plateau Honorary Award
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Award for Best International Short
'A Kind of Testament' by Stephen Vuillemin
Special Mention
'Beautiful Men' by Nicolas Keppens
Award for Best Belgian Student Short
'In attesa di una tempesta solare' by Evi Cats
Special Mention
'Melantroop' by Vibe Stalpaert
Audience Award for Best Belgian Student Short
'Oiseau de passage' by Victor Dupuis
The first ever FFG merch has arrived!
For its 50th edition, Film Fest Gent, in collaboration with Howest Industrial Product Design students and Ghent design label Volmaakt, had merchandise products developed from used promotional materials. Dated flags, roll-up banners and old paper experience a second youth. Discover our bags, document covers, flower pots and notebooks!
WSA Winners 2023
During Film Fest Gent, not only film prizes were awarded, but also film music prizes! Find out who can call themselves film composer of the year at the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert tonight. The first WSA Game Music Award was presented at the PRESS PLAY: Music in Games concert.
WSA Game Music Award
River Boy (Narayana Johnson)
WSA Industry Award
Robert Townson
Film Composer of the Year
Volker Bertelmann for 'War Sailor', 'Memory of Water' & 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
Television Composer of the Year
Nicholas Britell for 'Succession' S4 & 'Andor' S1
Best Original Song
“Your Personal Trash Man Can” from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel S05 - written by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore & performed by Phillip Attmore, Jake Corcoran, RJ Higton, Tommy Sutter & Cast,
Discovery of the Year
Simon Franglen for 'Avatar: The Way of Water'
Public Choice Award
Amelia Warner for 'Mr Malcolm's List'
Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer
Alex Sievern
Best Original Score for a Belgian Production
Dirk Brossé for 'Onze natuur'
Lifetime Achievement Award
Nicola Piovani
Lifetime Achievement Award
Laurence Rosenthal
Ken Loach op FFG2023
In 2016, Ken Loach won a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Ghent. Seven years later, he returns with The Old Oak. The eternally militant and combative director broke through in 1970 with the gripping Kes and in the decades that followed nestled himself in the hearts of the hard-working Briton as well as the cinephile. No filmmaker has devoted so much of his work to the life and suffering of the working class. Even today, Loach believes in the power of cinema. After the screening of The Old Oak, he takes ample time to look back on his extensive filmography.
"Why do they say I hate my country? And what does that even mean? Am I supposed to hate my town, am I supposed to hate all English people, or my government? And if I do hate my government, does that mean I hate my country? It's a democratic duty to criticize the government."
The Old Oak van Ken Loach
Ken Loach's latest forms the final part - after I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You - of a trilogy about the disastrous consequences of failing British politics in northern England. In a former mining village, the pub 'The Old Oak' is the only remaining refuge for impoverished workers, but the water is also on the lips of owner TJ, from whom all hope has drained. When Syrian refugees are placed in the village without much consultation, the two neglected communities are condemned to each other.
A selection of 2x25
25 composers, 25 filmmakers, 25 ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography that fit completely within the DNA of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards.
Midnight Cult 🔮
There is also a lot going on late at night at Film Fest Gent. As part of the tag Midnight Cult you will find late-night screenings full of cannibalism, vampirism, exorcism and ... vengeful beavers. Moreover, we will dance long after midnight at the Film Fest Gent Closing Party, which is entirely devoted to Twin Peaks.
FFG Highlights
Watch the official spot for FFG2023
A Kind of Testament, In attesa di una tempesta solare and Oiseau de passage win at short film weekend
