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1985 - Aflevering 1 (1985 - Episode 1)
Wouter Bouvijn
1985 - Aflevering 2 (1985 - Episode 2)
Wouter BouvijnA
All-In
Volkan Üce
Two shy young men start to work in an all-inclusive hotel.
Amal
Jawad Rhalib
A brilliant performance by Lubna Azabal (which is a pleonasm!) is the foundation on which Amal rests. A remarkable Belgian film by the tireless Jawad Rhalib.
L'amer au bord des lèvres (مُرّة على الشفاه)
Sanae Khamlichi
This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
Animals
Nabil Ben Yadir
Brahim is a young man, his mother’s joy. One day he will find the love of his life.
Arme jongen zo ver van huis (Poor Boy Long Way From Home)
Jonas Hollevoet
This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
Augure (Omen)
Baloji
In Baloji's mesmerising feature-length debut we follow so-called 'devil children' who, banned from their social circles, engage in a fiery battle to throw off that hellish label.
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Camping du lac
Éléonore Saintagnan
Paris-born Brussels-based filmmaker Eléonore Saintagnan docks at a small campsite with a miraculously big story in Camping du lac. Beautifully documented, brightly fictionalised and awarded at the Locarno Film Festival.
La chute (On its Way Down)
Sebastian Schaevers
This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
La Civil
Teodora Ana Mihai
Close
Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont's sophomore feature (after Girl) is a sensitive and empathic look at a friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys. Fragile, deeply moving Belgian cinema that was awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes.
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De dag die wit was (The Day That Was White)
Wannes Vanspauwen
This short film is part of the Belgian Student Short Competition.
Dealer
Jeroen Perceval
Draw For Change - Mexico (We Are Fire)
Karen Vázquez Guadarrama
Draw For Change - Syria (Behind the Lines)
Alaa Amer, Alisar Hasan
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel
Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier
Just before the iconic Chelsea Hotel gets a thorough facelift, documentary makers Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt delve into the past of this symbol of sixties counterculture.
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Echo
Ruben Desiere
With Echo Ruben Desiere offers a surprising glimpse into the training of Belgian soldiers, who are subjected to almost theatrical role-plays and the authority of an amiable commander.
L'enfant salamandre
Théo Degen
This short film is part of the Belgian Student Short Competition.
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Finns Hiel (Finn's Heel)
Cato Kusters
This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
Four Seasons in a Day
Annabel Verbeke
Each day, the Carlingford ferry brings people over the border between Northern-Ireland and Ireland, in an era the debate on Brexit is predominant.
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Here
Bas Devos
With Here, Bas Devos' fourth feature, the filmmaker casts his patient and human gaze upon a Romanian construction worker strolling through Brussels and its nature. A surprising city symphony that pays tribute to the invisible, and to mosses.
High Jump
Lennert Madou
This short film is part of the Belgian Student Short Competition.
Holly
Fien Troch
Fien Troch opens the 50th anniversary edition of Film Fest Gent with an intriguing portrait of a 15-year-old girl who seems to have predicted a deadly school fire, and becomes a mourning community's medium for solace.
L'homme inconnu
Anthony Schatteman
This short film is part of International Shorts 3.
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Inexorable
Fabrice du Welz
In Inexorable, Film Fest Gent's jury-president of 2020, Fabrice du Welz, follows a writer with a writersblock who retreats to a mysterieus house.
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Juste un mouvement (Just a Movement)
Vincent Meessen
In Senegal, the name of Omar Blondin Diop is associated with an unpunished state crime. In France, he has mostly gone down in history as a Marxist activist featuring in La Chinoise.
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Komm, süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death)
Jolke Van Aerde
This short film is part of the Belgian Student Short Competition.
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Lupus
Zoé Brichau
This short film is part of the Belgian Student Short Competition.
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Merci pour votre patience! (Thank you for your patience!)
Simon van der Zande
This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.