Programme edition 2022
C
Coma
Bertrand Bonello
With the peculiar 'corona film' Coma, French iconoclast Bertrand Bonello puts the dream theory of philosopher Gilles Deleuze and your brain together in a blender. Try waking up from that!
D
De humani corporis fabrica
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Anthropologist-filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor explore the human body in their high-tech update of anatomy study De Humani Corporis Fabrica. A visually striking blend of documentary and science fiction.
F
Fairytale (Сказка)
Aleksandr Sokurov
Russian film auteur Sokurov places Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and others in a deepfake purgatory.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (다섯 번째 흉추)
Park Sye-young
Possibly the strangest film of Film Fest Gent 2022, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra follows the journey of a mattress fungus in search of love ... This sparkling, restless and unexpectedly wholesome debut is guaranteed to grow a cult following.
H
Human Flowers of Flesh
Helena Wittmann
If Odysseus had been a legionnaire, Human Flowers of Flesh would have depicted his poetic wanderings over land and sea. German filmmaker Helena Wittmann preserves the mystery and meekly allows you to experience this story of all times and all places.
O
A mysterious statue of the Virgin Mary is supposed to bring relief to the inhabitants of post-colonial Luanda in the Angolan allegory Our Lady of the Chinese Shop. How many miracles can a plastic figure make possible?
P
Pacifiction
Albert Serra
Albert Serra may be a provocateur, but in Pacifiction he enchants us all with a majestically mysterious film about a slick politician on a French Polynesian island.
Piaffe
Ann Oren
Piaffe is the liberating story of a complex sexuality. A sensual mix of Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy with a touch of 'bio-eroticism'. Queer, kinky and fascinating.
The Plains
David Easteal
In his challenging feature debut The Plains, Australian filmmaker David Easteal ignores many of the classic rules of cinema. Through the mundanity of life on the road, a great and small human beauty seeps into the film, that can ride along with the 'car cinema' of Abbas ...