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Film Fest Gent proudly announces a new series of titles for the 49th edition, from 11 to 22 October 2022. French directors Léonor Serraille and Mia Hansen-Love each portray a fractured family portrait in Un petit frère and Un beau matin. In her topical film Call Jane, Phyllis Nagy provides a star-studded cast led by Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver. Homegrown talent to watch out for is represented by Flo Van Deuren and Kato De Boeck, who will present their new miniseries Roomies at the festival. And as icing on the cake, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu director Céline Sciamma will also attend the festival for a Director’s Talk.

In October, Film Fest Gent 2022 brings Chromatics frontman Johnny Jewel to Ghent for a Creative Partnership talk with Belgian director Fien Troch and editor Nico Leunen. American composer Daniel Hart will also visit FFG2022 together with director David Lowery to talk about their long-standing and inseparable creative collaboration since St. Nick en Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

Each year, Film Fest Gent puts film music and composers in the spotlight with an album release. This time around, Film Fest Gent is proud to present the new album 'Mark Isham: Music for Film'.

Monsieur le cinéma is no more. Jean-Luc Godard, the legendary director behind iconic films such as À bout de souffle (1960), Le mépris (1963) and Pierrot le fou (1965) has died at the age of 91. The body of work he leaves behind is immense, and above all: immortal. Moreover, the oeuvre made about the greatest modernist in cinema is, if anything, even greater. The 49th edition of Film Fest Gent therefore presents two brand new works about Godard: À vendredi, Robinson (Mitra Farahani) and Godard seul le cinéma (Cyril Leuthy).

The WSA Film Music Days offer a look behind the scenes of the world of film music. Filled with panel discussions, interviews and master classes, these talks are a great way to get to know the faces behind the scores. For professionals, students or film music lovers.

We proudly reveal the nominations in three of the main categories of the 2022 World Soundtrack Awards. Including both established and emerging talent, the categories Film Composer of the Year, Television Composer of the Year and Best Original Song all have six nominees. Among the nominees are three composers who scored nominations in two different categories: Nicholas Britell, Daniel Hart and last year’s Film Composer of the Year Daniel Pemberton. The song “Strange Game” from the HBO series Slow Horses is the first ever song from a series nominated for Best Original Song, since songs from TV series have been made eligible in 2021.

We proudly reveal the nominations in three of the main categories of the 2022 World Soundtrack Awards. Including both established and emerging talent, the categories Film Composer of the Year, Television Composer of the Year and Best Original Song all have six nominees. Among the nominees are three composers who scored nominations in two different categories: Nicholas Britell, Daniel Hart and last year’s Film Composer of the Year Daniel Pemberton. The song “Strange Game” from the HBO series Slow Horses is the first ever song from a series nominated for Best Original Song, since songs from TV series have been made eligible in 2021.

Film Fest Gent organises a ten-day festival and is aware of its ecological and social impact. We show around 150 films during more than 400 screenings, we invite film talent from all over the world to Ghent and we gather an international audience. The organisation of the festival inevitably generates CO2 emissions. Today, we are already making efforts to reduce our ecological footprint and increase our social impact. And we strive for more. Are you with us?

For its 49th edition (11 - 22 October), Film Fest Gent presents a challenging programme including six Oscar candidates (Klondike, The Quiet Girl, Alcarràs, Corsage, Drii Winter and the Belgian Close as the opening film), alongside new and classic Korean films and a range of films dealing with mental health. The short film competitions are more inspiring than ever and the Director’s Talks with filmmakers like Céline Sciamma and Lukas Dhont, Cristian Mungiu and Albert Serra promise to be thought-provoking. Both debutant and established film and film-music talents such as David Lowery, Marie Kreutzer, Im Sang-soo, Valentina Maurel, Léonor Serraille, Mark Isham, Bruno Coulais and Drive My Car composer Eiko Ishibashi will be present.

Film Fest Gent has added Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, and Mark Rylance to its Official Competition, which now has a line-up of 13 features in total. Bones and All had its world premiere in Venice, where Guadagnino won the Silver Lion for best director and Taylor Russell the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor.