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Cinea and Film Fest Gent proudly present the 10th Young Critics Workshop (October 10 – 21, 2023) by photogénie, open to aspiring film critics (aged 18-26) from Belgium and abroad, offering them the opportunity to cover the 50th edition of this major international event, ranked among the top European film festivals.

Multi-instrumentalist & composer Eiko Ishibashi and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi have teamed up once again following their successful collaboration on the critically acclaimed feature film Drive My Car. This new film, titled Gift and written and directed by Hamaguchi, will world premiere with a live score performed by Ishibashi at Film Fest Gent in the VIDEODROOM programme, a partnership between the festival and Arts Centre VIERNULVIER.

Are you working on a film project, but still looking for a composer? 3rd Character will make the introduction! This initiative facilitates meetings between film music composers and duos of directors & producers who are working on a project without a composer attached. This year, the meetings will take place at FIFF Namur.

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.

Here by Bas Devos will have its Belgian premiere in the Official Competition of the 50th edition of Film Fest Gent. The film previously had its world premiere at the Berlinale, where it won the top prize in the Encounters section. It was also announced today that Here will be screened in the Wavelengths section in Toronto and in the Main Slate programme of the New York Film Festival, a remarkable achievement for a Flemish film.

Composers Stephanie Economou (Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök), Borislav Slavov (Baldur's Gate III, Divinity: Original Sin II), Gordy Haab (Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Jedi), Stephen Barton (Star Wars Jedi, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) and Gustavo Santaolalla (The Last of Us) will be present at Film Fest Gent's game music concert PRESS PLAY: Music in Games on Thursday 19 October at Capitole Ghent. During the concert, a selection of their work will be performed by Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé. Gustavo Santaolalla will accompany the orchestra with his ronroco. Moreover, during the WSA Film Music Days from 19 to 21 October, the composers will talk about their métier during various panels and masterclasses.

Holly, Fien Troch's fifth feature, is the official opening film of the 50th anniversary edition of Film Fest Gent and will kick off the festival on Tuesday 10 October. The film is an intriguing portrait of a 15-year-old girl named Holly. After she seems to have predicted a deadly school fire, people begin to seek out Holly for consolation. Troch's latest is also a part of the Official Competition of the Venice Film Festival.

Are you ready to be deeply moved and enchanted? The closing film of the anniversary edition of Film Fest Gent is the long-anticipated new title from Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, The Red Turtle)! What's more, the film was made by none other than Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, the man behind beloved animated films like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. The Boy and the Heron was received as a mature, complex masterpiece in Japan. For the first time, Film Fest Gent is making the official award ceremony preceding the closing film and the reception afterwards open to the public.

For Film Fest Gent's golden anniversary, the festival is launching '2x25': 25 composers, including Colin Stetson, Daniel Pemberton and Howard Shore, were invited to write a short piece of music. Then 25 filmmakers - including Paul Schrader, Jia Zhangke and Ildikó Enyedi - used the music to create a short film. The results fit perfectly within the DNA of Film Fest Gent: 25 sublime symbioses of music and cinematography, of emerging talent and established professionals, and of household names and festival favourites.