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1985

The 1980s marked the most turbulent and violent period of post-war Belgium. In 1985, we follow three young people who find themselves in the midst of crimes by The Brabant Killers. Based on true stories.

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A Film School in Mosul

In August 2021, the Belgian theatre house NTGent started building a Film Department in collaboration with the Institute of Fine Arts in Mosul. An ambitious project supported by and part of the UNESCO programme Revive the Spirit of Mosul funded by the European Union. Twenty ...
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Agrilogistics

Gerard Ortín Castellví
This short film is part of International Shorts 2.
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Alcarràs

Carla Simón
In her semi-autobiographical Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón shares the joys and sorrows of a family of peach farmers. Together they have to face the uncertain future of their traditional way of life.
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AlFasliya (Blood Money)

Youssef Radwan
This short film is part of A Film School in Mosul.
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This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
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The offender of a hit-and-run crime tries to learn and deal with the consequences in Chinese crime thriller Are You Lonesome Tonight?, a promising debut about guilt and penance, a heavy conscience and faltering memory.
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This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
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Atraksion

Raoul Servais
This short film is part of the Raoul Servais Shorts.

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A reappraisal of the forgotten Iranian writer and director Ebrahim Golestan, and a tribute to film legend Jean-Luc Godard: À vendredi, Robinson celebrates two artistic masters.

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The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh
Oscar winner Martin McDonagh ships the team from In Bruges to his homeland Ireland for The Banshees of Inisherin. Set against the beautiful landscape, a tragicomic character study unfolds about the rift between two old friends.
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In her eighth feature, Mia Hansen-Løve directs star Léa Seydoux towards a very sensitive portrait of a young mother and widow who begins a passionate relationship with an old friend while trying to cope with her father who has a neurodegenerative disease.
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Birta (9+)

Bragi Thor Hinriksson
Birta is an eleven-year-old girl with a very big heart and a great desire for Christmas. Together with her little sister, she tries to help her mum with her financial problems in this heart-tugging adventure. But how do you earn money as an eleven-year-old?
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Body Parts

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Sex and nude scenes are commodities in Hollywood, and that has a significant influence on the audience. The spine-chilling documentary Body Parts offers a disconcerting look behind the scenes of the American film industry.
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Bones and All

Luca Guadagnino
Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell star as sweet and tender young cannibal lovers in this finger-lickin-good 80s set road movie from Luca Guadagnino.
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John le Carré is never far away in this political thriller about a venerable Islamic institution in Cairo where a young student loses his innocence with the snap of a finger. Boy from Heaven won the award for Best Screenplay in Cannes.
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Burning (버닝)

Lee Chang-dong
This exceptionally subtle character study is at once enigmatic, suspenseful, endearing and ambiguous. From éducation sentimentale, the film evolves into a metaphysical thriller around a complicated love triangle between two young men and a mysterious young woman.
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This short film is part of International Shorts 1.

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Call Jane

Phyllis Nagy
Phyllis Nagy, screenwriter of Carol, makes her directorial debut with a stylish period drama about 'the Janes', a Chicago women's collective that performed safe abortions.
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Candies

Mustafa Khaled
This short film is part of A Film School in Mosul.
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Carnival of Souls

Herk Harvey
A young woman comes to the chilling discovery of how much of herself she has really lost in a car accident. An inspiration for David Lynch, Christian Petzold and George A. Romero, the inventive and atmospheric Carnival of Souls has become a low budget cult classic since the ...
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Casa Susanna

Sébastien Lifshitz
After Bambi and Petite fille (Grand Prix for Best Film in 2020), director Sébastien Lifshitz sends another moving message from the trans community. This time he digs up a fairly unknown American history.
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The Cathedral

Ricky D'Ambrose
Based on director Ricky D'Ambrose's personal childhood memories, the fictional The Cathedral observes the growth of its protagonist and the gradual cracks in his family in an un-American way.
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A virtuoso duel between a pimp watching his girls disappear one by one and the clever serial killer he is desperately trying to catch. Nail-beating and suspenseful.
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Cherries (Uogos)

Vytautas Katkus
This short film is part of International Shorts 3.
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Chromophobia

Raoul Servais
This short film is part of the Raoul Servais Shorts.
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La chute (On its Way Down)

Sebastian Schaevers
This short film is part of Competition for Belgian Student Shorts.
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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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