Programme edition 2022
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Un beau matin (One Fine Morning)
Mia Hansen-Løve
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.
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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Fairytale (Сказка)
Aleksandr Sokurov
Russian film auteur Sokurov places Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and others in a deepfake purgatory.
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Heaven: To the Land of Happiness (헤븐: 행복의 나라로)
Im Sang-soo
The lead actors from South Korean classics Oldboy and Memories of Murder shine through in this witty buddy movie in which two men on the run - without realising it - rob a mafia gang.
The Host (괴물)
Bong Joon-ho
The director of Parasite delivers a monster film full of social criticism, subversive humour, ecological awareness and cinematic brio.
The Housemaid (1960) (하녀)
Kim Ki-young
This classis of South Korean cinema of the sixties is an erotically charged thriller about a manipulative maid who drags a neat bourgeois family into the deepest depths. A marriage of the cinema of Hitchcock and Buñuel.
The Housemaid (2010) (하녀)
Im Sang-soo
An aesthetically delightful remake of Im Sang-soo's 1960 classic about a maid who violently shakes up a posh family. Seductive cinema of the addictive kind.
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Joint Security Area (공동경비구역)
Park Chan-wook
North-South tensions flare high in this early film by Park Chan-wook. Alongside the political trauma, there is also the bonding of border guards in the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas.
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Leonora addio
Paolo Taviani
The brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani received the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award for their entire oeuvre at Film Fest Gent 2012 and continued to direct with the two of them until Vittorio's death in 2018. Paolo's solo film Leonora addio is a rich tribute to the writer ...
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Master Gardener
Paul Schrader
After First Reformed and The Card Counter, Master Gardener is Paul Schrader's latest variation on the quest for redemption for lost souls.
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The Novelist's Film (소설가의 영화)
Hong Sang-soo
South Korean director Hong Sang-soo sensually celebrates the pleasant coincidences of life. A new black-and-white, tragicomic gem from the auteur filmmaker who is expanding his impressive oeuvre year by year.
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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.
Painted Fire (취화선)
Im Kwon-taek
Veteran director Im Kwon-taek tells the story of a famous Korean painter and erotomaniac who is completely absorbed in his work and goes through life drinking and copulating. The film is set against the backdrop of Korea's turbulent history of the second half of the 19th century.
Petite maman
Céline Sciamma
After Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma enchants again with the modern fairytale Petite maman. A gem that invites you to reminisce together, cry softly and heal slowly.
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Le révélateur
Philippe Garrel
Le révélateur is a Freudian playground full of fairytale symbolism but also corresponding danger. The French avant-garde filmmaker Philippe Garrel is just as rebellious as the little boy in the leading role of this black-and-white dream.
Rimini
Ulrich Seidl
Ten years after Ulrich Seidl zoomed in on a seaside resort in Kenya with Paradies: Liebe, the Austrian filmmaker focuses on an Italian resort in Rimini.
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Walk Up (탑)
Hong Sang-soo
Away from all trends, Hong Sang-soo diligently continues to build a completely unique cinematic universe. Walk Up is vintage Hong, hovering between humour and melancholy.
Revenge gradually drives two enemies with a past into madness. Lav Diaz, the patient master filmmaker from the Philippines, traces the demons of his homeland in When the Waves Are Gone. Slow cinema in an insulin shot.
Woman is the Future of Man (여자는 남자의 미래다)
Hong Sang-soo
Delicately and elegantly, arthouse favourite Hong Sang-soo observes with requisite understated humour the floundering and fumbling of ordinary people struggling with the fragile and elusive nature of love.