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At the Film Fest Café, we like to enrich your film chats with a delicious snack and a wide range of drinks. Moreover, at the Film Fest Café, you are in the right spot for interesting talks and meetings. Would you like to extend your film evening with dinner? We have some excellent restaurant recommendations for you!

South-Korean cinema is more popular and critically acclaimed than ever, which is why the 49th edition of Film Fest Gent has opted for a 'Focus on South Korean Cinema', including new and classic features from the peninsula. Award-winning director Im Sang-soo will present his latest film - Heaven: To the Land of Happiness - in person. As previously announced, the festival will welcome composers Cho Young-wuk and Lee Byeong-woo on 20 October for the film music concert Korean Composers, also highlighting the music of Jung Jae-il.

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.

‘No film without film music' has been the unwritten motto of Film Fest Gent for decades. After all, it is often the creative collaborations between composers and filmmakers that lead to the most intriguing oeuvres. With Creative Partnership Film Fest Gent adds a brand-new format to the WSA Film Music Days and shines the spotlight on exceptional collaborations.

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.