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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?

Directors who speak beautifully about their work are the ones we like to invite! Hang on every word of the most interesting filmmakers of the moment during our Director's Talks. Michel Khleifi, Isadora Neves Marques, Guillaume Cailleau and Alain Guiraudie will be visiting Gent.

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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.

We are very proud to announce the closing film for Film Fest Gent 2022: She Said by Maria Schrader closes Film Fest Gent 2022. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett and the New York Times bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. The official closing film on 21 October will be preceded by a closing ceremony announcing the winners of the Grand Prix for Best Film and the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack or Sound Design.

Critically acclaimed French director Mia Hansen-Løve will personally introduce her latest film Un beau matin to Ghent audiences on Saturday 22 October at Film Fest Gent. A few days earlier, on 18 October, Film Fest Gent will take Un beau matin to theatres all over Flanders for the monthly FFG On Tour.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of each day.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of each day.

French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, best known for her game-changing historical drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has received a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Gent on Wednesday 12 October. She was handed the award by Lukas Dhont, who kicked off the festival the day before with his sophomore feature Close. Before the award ceremony, the two filmmakers talked in depth about each other’s oeuvre.