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At and on our red carpet, everyone is welcome! Do not hesitate to step onto the red steps and capture your visit to Film Fest Gent in style in front of our photo wall. Our beloved guests - international and national directors, actors, actresses and film composers - will also pass by the red carpet. Would you like to witness their official welcome moment? Then be sure to come and watch them at our red carpet at Kinepolis Ghent (Ter Platen 12, 9000 Ghent - every evening from 7 pm). Don't forget your camera!

Thanks to the World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent is able to invite the world's most sought-after composers to Ghent. Carter Burwell, Nicholas Britell, Hans Zimmer, ... They all visited our festival before. Curious what they have to say? Discover it during our Composer's Talks!

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. Vytautas Katkus and Vibke Løkkeberg will be visiting Gent.

‘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.

Classics curator Patrick Duynslaegher talks with actress Theresa Russell after the screening of Bad Timing. The American appeared in six of Nicolas Roeg’s films and is being honored with a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award.

Relive the most beautiful moments of the 52nd edition of Film Fest Gent.

From September onwards, film students who wish to attend the festival (8–19 Oct) can apply for accreditation via their personal MyFFG profile on our website. The deadline for accreditation requests is 2 October 2025.

For the 25th anniversary of the World Soundtrack Awards, film photographer Kris Dewitte is dusting off his iconic Carposers series. Sixteen years after its world premiere in Japan, the exhibition is on display in Ghent for the first time. From 8 to 19 October, a selection of the series can be viewed free of charge at the Film Fest Café.

During its 52nd edition, Film Fest Gent once again goes On Tour with a series of avant-premières in cinemas and cultural centres across Flanders. On Tuesday 14 October, both the festival audience in Ghent and film lovers in participating venues throughout Brussels and Flanders can experience Timestamp by Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostaj. After the screening, a Q&A with the director will be screened simultaneously in all venues.

Together with Kortfilm.be we spoke with four filmmakers selected for the Competition for Belgian Student Shorts 2025 at Film Fest Ghent. In short video interviews, they talk about their films, their sources of inspiration, and the artistic choices that shape their work.