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On Saturday October 22, 2005, Dominique Deruddere, member of the International Jury announced the list of prize winners. The ceremony was followed by the première of Dominique Deruddere's film The Wedding Party (De Bloedbruiloft).

The First European Film Concert will take place in Berlin on Friday December 2nd. This is a joint organization of the World Soundtrack Academy from the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent and the European Film Academy. Topcomposers as Gabriel Yared, Zbigniew Preisner and Maurice Jarre will carry this concert skyhigh.

L'Enfant of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne is together with Someone Else's Happiness of Fien Troch most likely to win a 2005 Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Film. On Tuesday March 7th, the winners of the Belgian film awards will be anounced at the Arts Centre Vooruit in Ghent. Here are the nominees.

At this year's Joseph Plateau Award Ceremony, L'Enfant by Luc & Jean-Pierre was elected as Best Belgian Film 2005. The film won in total five awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. It's already the fourth time that the brothers Dardenne won the award for Best Belgian Film.

Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Melbourne, Ghent, London, Paris - which city does not belong in that list? The answer is: they all belong. Thanks to the coöperation between the Flanders International Filmfestival-Ghent and the province of East-Flanders 'little' Ghent is granted the exclusive right to host the prestigious, world-renowned Stanley Kubrick Exhibition in the Benelux, following recent highly successful showings of the exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Melbourne.

After a successful collaboration in 2020, Film Fest Ghent and Courtisane - FFG's little Ghent-based festival brother - will join forces for the upcoming festival edition as well. Contrary to last year, when the joint forces focused on bringing the Portuguese director Pedro Costa to Ghent for his drama Vitalina Varela, the entire festival programme of the adventurous film festival will now run parallel to Film Fest Ghent in October 2021.

During the 33rd Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent French filmmaker Agnes Varda will receive the Joseph Plateau Lifetime Achievement Award. As a tribute to Varda, the festival is putting together a retrospective of her film work. In cooperation with S.M.A.K. (the Ghent museum of contemporary art), two of her recent video installations will be shown.

The sixth edition of the World Soundtrack Awards, which will be held on October 14, 2006, is once again promising to be the pre-eminent event for film music lovers. The international elite of film music composers will be in Ghent that evening to attend the presentation of the World Soundtrack Awards and the concert thereafter. Among other works, the music of Michael Giacchino, Peer Raben, John Powell and Piet Goddaer will be the main features of the evening.

During the 33rd Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent award-winning composer and musician Craig Armstrong will perform a unique film concert at the Flemish Opera house. For the first time ever the music Armstrong composed for Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, and Ray will be played by a symphonic orchestra assisted by a choir and Armstrong on the piano.

From October 11 to 21 inclusive, all spotlights will once again be on Ghent for the 33rd edition of the Flanders International Film Festival. This year the festival is focussing on Stanley Kubrick with an exhibition, a complete retrospective and a film concert. Also not to be missed are the Craig Armstrong film concert, the sixth edition of the World Soundtrack Awards and a tribute to Agnes Varda.