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Film Fest Gent announces the programme of the 2025 WSA Film Music Days, from 14 until 16 October 2025. Across three days of concerts, talks, panels and workshops, composers and industry professionals gather in Ghent to reflect on the art, craft and future of music for screen. Headlining the programme are Debbie Wiseman, Martin Phipps, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch and the Composers Diversity Collective.

Alongside film and film music, Film Fest Gent 2025 will also showcase two high-profile Flemish television series: the six-part thriller This is not a murder mystery and the eagerly awaited second season of audience favorite Roomies will both premiere in October in Ghent. Later this fall, the series will air on VRT.

Film Fest Gent is about more than just watching films. It's also about meeting people who share your love of cinema. With Cinema Samen, you watch a film with other young film lovers (ages 18–30) whom you don't know yet.

Film Fest Gent will close its 52nd edition with the Belgian premiere of Urchin, the surprising and profoundly humane directorial debut of British actor Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness, Babygirl). The film, which was previously selected for the prestigious Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes, will screen on Saturday 18 October at Kinepolis Gent in the presence of Dickinson himself.

At the 52nd edition of Film Fest Gent, the festival bands together with S.M.A.K. to spotlight the versatile work of influential American artist James Benning (°1942, Milwaukee, WI). Alongside the inclusion of little boy in Film Fest Gent’s Official Selection, three of his key works will also be screened at S.M.A.K.

Bas Bogaerts, the Film Fest Gent portrait photographer, gets to see all our guests up close. Take a look at the enchanting results.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2025. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of the day.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2025. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of the day.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2025. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of the day.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2025. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of the day.