Festival films 50th edition in Belgian theatres

Not stealing to be rich, but to be free. An Argentine bank employee takes the risk of his life in this twisty, mild crime comedy that proves just how exciting South American cinema is.

Guitarist Brian Jones was a founding member of The Rolling Stones in 1962. He quit the band in 1969 and shortly afterwards drowned in his swimming pool. The Stones and Brian Jones highlights those seven turbulent years.

A truly enchanting trip, Samsara depicts the Buddhist concept of birth, life, death and rebirth in a sensory way. A film somewhere between dream and reality, documentary and fiction, countries and bodies.

In his self-proclaimed final film, Ken Loach - master of British social realism - takes up the hatchet once more for those whom British politics has abandoned. The eternal humanist rallies one more time for solidarity between all, this time by showing us a clash in Northern ...

An idiosyncratic ode to romance, Fallen Leaves is feel-good cinema from Finland that conquered hearts at Cannes. An Aki Kaurismäki grand cru and (Cannes) Grand Prix!

"That fantastic device," dixit King Edward VII, "is the film camera". But this Swedish documentary shows that not every image is reality. A story about cunning manipulation and observant viewers.

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.

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.

Funnier than The Big Short, more realistic than The Wolf of Wall Street, and equally adept at capturing the zeitgeist as Wall Street, Dumb Money, which revolves around a massive stock market manipulation, is a triumph across the board.

Confuse and conquer, that's the motto of director Bertrand Mandico, the French Sun King of artistic madness. In Conann, the fantasy legend of Conan the Barbarian mutates into a six-headed monster-trip.

In the darkness of the sauna, women share their most intimate secrets. The drops of sweat that glide off their bodies, take away their shame and while they rinse off their stories from the past they regain a sense of community that strengthens them for the outside world.

Two is better than one. This short film compilation for the youngest of film lovers is a beautiful ode to unconditional love.

Without words and with a hint of melancholy, Pablo Berger takes us to 1980s New York for a bittersweet animated film about a dog and his robot, their friendship and their vulnerability.

In Silver Lion winner Io capitano, Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone follows two Senegalese teenagers as they transit from Dakar to Sicily. A hallucinatory odyssey through the hopeful eyes of the young migrants. Garrone and debuting actor Seydou Sarr both won awards at the Venice ...

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.

In Todd Haynes' dark and deliciously funny melodrama May December, Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman play a mysterious cat-and-mouse game of seduction, naivety and performance.

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.

Sophisticated ghost stories, they do exist. Following A Ghost Story, melancholic souls can get what their hearts desire with All of Us Strangers. British filmmaker Andrew Haigh knows how to simultaneously surprise and captivate with this restrained but sometimes steamy romance ...

After Les Misérables expectations are naturally high, and Ladj Ly does not disappoint with his second feature film Les Indésirables. Once again, he focuses on the explosive situations in the suburbs of Paris.

For The Siren, filmmaker Sepideh Farsi - banned from her homeland Iran - returns to a conflict from her teenage years: the Iran-Iraq War that plunged the port city of Abadan into state of besiege. But even in times and places where everyone and everything threatens to be ...

In her tender debut, a powerful ode to a label-free identity reminiscent of the work of Céline Sciamma, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren draws a portrait of childhood and family as both a blessing and a curse.

Through the painful fate of a young widow, debuting Lebanese director Amjad Al Rasheed indicts his country's gender inequality. A gripping account, albeit not without humour.

As an American critic wrote, it's the most ingenious screenplay idea that Woody Allen never came up with. That's Dream Scenario for which Kristoffer Borgli received assistance from Ari Aster as a producer.