21 October 2026

Coward

Following the international success of Girl and Close, Lukas Dhont heads to the trenches of the First World War with his most ambitious film to date. Behind the lines, young soldier Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia in a striking debut) discovers an unexpected world of theatre, music and ...

Shaun het schaap: het beest op de boerderij (5+) (Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom)

Steve Cox, Matthew Walker 80min

At Mossy Bottom Farm, Halloween preparations take an unexpected turn when the Farmer destroys Shaun's pumpkins. Determined to save the celebration, Shaun experiments with daring fixes that soon spiral out of control. When the Farmer disappears and a strange creature appears in ...

28 October 2026

4 November 2026

The Six

Reiner Holzemer 90min

In the early 1980s, six graduates from Antwerp’s fashion academy transformed the city into an international fashion hub. Known as The Antwerp Six, they became a global phenomenon despite their very different styles. In The Six, filmmaker Reiner Holzemer explores their shared ...

Wild Horse Nine

Martin McDonagh 116min

Two CIA agents arrive on Easter Island for an apparently innocent assignment, only to be confronted with their past. In this offbeat buddy comedy by Martin McDonagh, a tropical getaway spirals into an absurdist trip filled with dark humour and paranoia.

11 November 2026

Club Kid

Jordan Firstman 126min

A crowd-pleasing dramedy that is both cheeky and genuinely endearing? Club Kid is a treat for those who like being charmed yet still want something different. Queer comedian and screenwriter Jordan Firstman directs himself as an aging New York party animal who discovers he’s a ...

Minotaur

Andrey Zvyagintsev 135min

After an almost decade-long absence, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev returns with Minotaur, a visually stunning masterpiece inspired by Claude Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle. Set in an unnamed Russian city, the film follows businessman Gleb, who is ordered to hand over ...

18 November 2026

Gugu's world (9+) (Feito Pipa)

Allan Deberton 93min

Colourful twelve-year-old Gugu loves football … and his caring but increasingly frail grandmother Dilma with whom he shares a house. But when Dilma’s age catches up, Gugu is determined to keep their world intact. A radiant queer coming-of-ager from Brazil, Gugu’s World proves ...

Soudain (All of a Sudden)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi 196min

After acclaimed films such as Evil Does Not Exist, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi moves his camera to France for the first time. Virginie Efira plays a care home director whose understanding of dignity is transformed by meeting a seriously ill Japanese playwright. Through patient ...

25 november 2026

How to Divorce During the War

Andrius Blaževičius 108min

As if a divorce isn’t destabilising enough, Lithuanian couple Marija and Vytas find themselves grappling with the unraveling of their marriage during political turmoil in this loaded, subdued satire. Set in Vilnius right after Russia invades Ukraine, How to Divorce During the ...

No Good Men

Shahrbanoo Sadat 103min

A feelgood film in a feel bad place, is the tagline for No Good Men, which opened this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. It serves a flesh-and-blood love story in Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban’s return to power. Screenwriter, director, and lead actress ...

Paper Tiger

James Gray 115min

James Gray returns to a New York crime saga with Paper Tiger. Set in Queens in 1986 and starring a searing Adam Driver and Miles Teller, this tragic thriller follows two brothers whose pursuit of the American Dream draws them into the ruthless world of the Russian mafia. A ...

2 December 2026

Le Faux Soir

Michael R. Roskam 134min

Faking a newspaper to outwit the Nazis: it sounds like the premise of an outrageous heist, but in occupied Brussels, it really happened. A group of resistance fighters produces a spoof edition of Le Soir, virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, that mercilessly mocks ...

9 December 2026

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Grant Gee 102min

What happens when the music suddenly stops? In 1961, jazz pianist Bill Evans loses his bassist and closest musical companion, Scott LaFaro. Evans stops playing too. Grant Gee turns that silence into the starting point for an unconventional biopic, led by a phenomenal Anders ...

Fjord

Cristian Mungiu 146min

Inspired by true events, the moral drama Fjord pits the parenting values of two conservative parents (Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan) against the so-called open-mindedness of their Norwegian fellow villagers. Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) ...

Wildwood

Travis Knight 132min

After her brother vanishes into the clutches of mysterious crows, Prue and classmate Curtis venture beyond Portland into Wildwood, a secret realm of magic, talking creatures and lurking threats. Their search collides with a ruler destroyed by grief. A dark fantasy turned into a ...

16 December 2026

Mouse

Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson 120min

After the success of Saint Frances and Ghostlight, co-directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson once again display their mastery in depicting loss, grief and a (renewed) search for identity in their third co-production Mouse. This coming-of-age drama is a modest and wholesome ...

23 December 2026

La bola negra (The Black Ball)

Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo 155min

Queer epic La bola negra breathes new life into unfinished work by Federico García Lorca. Filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, awarded Best Director at Cannes, explore and celebrate the interconnected stories of three gay men across different eras in Spain. A moving and ...

Gabin

Maxence Voiseux 105min

In this wonderfully charming coming-of-age film, French director Maxence Voiseux paints an intimate portrait of Gabin growing up on a farm. We follow him from age 8 to adulthood, finding his way caught between his parents. His father wants him to become a butcher, but he would ...

6 January 2027

Fatherland

Paweł Pawlikowski 82min

In 1949, author Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika set out to travel through Germany – their homeland, now in ruins, divided and alien to them. Will they emerge unscathed from the wreckage of history and their family? Following the equally moving, beautifully painful Ida (2013) ...

13 January 2027

Queen at Sea

Lance Hammer 121min

The destructive nature of dementia has been a source of inspiration for many a filmmaker, but perhaps never quite as unvarnished, carnal and discomforting as in Lance Hammer’s Queen At Sea. Eighteen years after his lauded debut Ballast, the independent director returns with a ...

Un bon petit soldat

Stéphane Brizé 101min

In Un bon petit soldat, Stéphane Brizé returns to one of his favourite battlegrounds: the modern workplace. Alba Rohrwacher is superb as Carla, the newly appointed HR manager of a major insurance company, tasked with reconciling employee wellbeing with relentless performance ...

20 January 2027

Forêt Ivre (Forest High)

Manon Coubia 102min

Three women each choose solitude in their own way by retreating to the same mountain. Although they never meet, they sense each other’s presence as their different lives enter into a whispered dialogue. Belgium-based director Manon Coubia beautifully invigorates the current film ...

27 January 2027

Bunker

Florian Zeller 126min

When architect Miguel is commissioned to build a luxurious bunker for a select group of the super-rich, he faces an uncomfortable choice: does he help build a shelter for the privileged few, or walk away? Florian Zeller turns this moral dilemma into a paranoid psychological ...

Jonah Was Here

Nathalie Teirlinck 100min

When grieving neurologist Bob moves into his late son's student room, the fifty-something finds himself living among his son's friends, habits and half-finished life. Nathalie Teirlinck's sophomore feature, with a captivating Koen De Bouw in the lead role, turns a father's ...

3 February 2027

Jean

Jolke Van Aerde 93min

“I just want to get away from that school as fast as possible,” pupil Jean tells Belgian director Jolke Van Aerde, “do you understand, ma’am?” Her poignant and sincerely observed feature film debut follows the teenager from Antwerp over several school years during his arduous ...

Salvation (Kurtuluş)

Emin Alper 120min

In a remote Turkish mountain village, a land dispute between two rival clans spirals into violence. In Salvation, director Emin Alper slowly blurs the line between dream and reality, turning a local conflict into a powerful parable about power, religious fervour, rumours and ...

10 February 2027

L'âge d'or (The Golden Age)

Bérenger Thouin 113min

An ambitious butcher’s daughter works her way up in society during the twentieth century, all the while confronted with the great upheavals of that time, in Bérenger Thouin’s L’Âge d’or. Using both fictional and archival material, this instant Classic at Cannes challenges our ...

17 February 2027

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)

Radu Jude 94min

For his French-language debut Diary of a Chambermaid, filmmaker Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn) follows freely in the footsteps of Luis Buñuel. With this loose adaptation in his trademark style, the audacious Romanian delivers sharp-witted (meta) commentary on past ...

31 March 2027

Strawberries (La más dulce)

Laïla Marrakchi 101min

Sweet fruit soon takes on a bitter taste in this powerful indictment of exploitation on Spanish strawberry farms. We follow the arduous journey of a combative Moroccan woman who migrated to Spain hoping for a fresh start. Together with colleagues she starts a protest that takes ...

Festival films in Belgian cinemas

21 October 2026

Coward

Shaun het schaap: het beest op de boerderij (5+) (Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom)

28 October 2026

La Gradiva

Mumbo (4+) (Da Mumbo Jumbo blev kæmpestor)

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

The Weight

4 November 2026

The Six

Wild Horse Nine

11 November 2026

Club Kid

Minotaur

18 November 2026

Gugu's world (9+) (Feito Pipa)

Soudain (All of a Sudden)

25 november 2026

How to Divorce During the War

No Good Men

Paper Tiger

2 December 2026

Le Faux Soir

9 December 2026

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Fjord

Wildwood

16 December 2026

Mouse

23 December 2026

La bola negra (The Black Ball)

Gabin

6 January 2027

Fatherland

13 January 2027

Queen at Sea

Un bon petit soldat

20 January 2027

Forêt Ivre (Forest High)

27 January 2027

Bunker

Jonah Was Here

3 February 2027

Jean

Salvation (Kurtuluş)

10 February 2027

L'âge d'or (The Golden Age)

17 February 2027

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)

31 March 2027

Strawberries (La más dulce)

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