Film Fest Gent On Tour
Every third Tuesday of the month we leave our familiar city of Ghent and showcase the latest, most vibrant new films in locations across Flanders and Brussels. The film screenings of Film Fest Gent On Tour are preceded by a short introduction and take place in different film theatres and cultural centres.
The 2024 season is almost coming to an end, but below you can dive into last year's programme. The last On Tour of the season will take place during the 51st edition of Film Fest Gent and will be announced in September.
Participating theatres 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'État'
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Studio Skoop
Studio Skoop
Sint-Annaplein 63
9000 Gent
studioskoop.be -
Cinema Lumière Brugge
Cinema Lumière
Sint-Jacobsstraat 36
8000 Brugge
lumierecinema.be -
Cinema Lumière Antwerpen
Cinema Lumière Antwerpen
Lakenstraat 14
2000 Antwerpen
lumiere-antwerpen.be -
The Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre
Pieter Vanhoudtstraat 39
3582 Beringen
theroxytheatre.be -
Cinema Zed
Cinema Zed
Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9C
3000 Leuven
cinemazed.be -
Cinema Lumière Mechelen
Cinema Lumière Mechelen
Frederik de Merodestraat 28
2800 Mechelen
lumiere-mechelen.be
Past On Tour screenings
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État l 18.06
Johan Grimonprez blends jazz, the CIA and the United Nations to create a swinging fusion in Soundtrack to a Coup d’État.
What do jazz music and the murder of Patrice Lumumba have in common? In Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez takes you back to 16 February 1961. Two jazz musicians, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, storm the UN Security Council and protest the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's prime minister. Previous meetings around demilitarisation and decolonisation had already fallen through, much to the frustration of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The big troublemaker, the US, urgently needed to boost its image and sought refuge in jazz. Music legends like Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington are sent to Congo as jazz ambassadors to divert attention from various CIA operations.
Wide Angle
- Review & Notes on director by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay in collaboration with Fantômas
- Videoessays in collaboration with Filmscalpel
May December l 16.01
In Todd Haynes' dark and deliciously funny melodrama May December, Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman play a mysterious cat-and-mouse game of seduction, naivety and performance.
You don't need to teach American filmmaker Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, Carol) anything about directing actors, creating mood and staging meta-melodramas. May December, a deliciously crafted psychodrama that looks as cerebral as it is seductive, makes that delightfully clear. "It's the complexity, the moral gray areas, that are so interesting," says Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), an actress looking to take her career to the next level. In this darker cousin of Carol, Haynes lets Elizabeth in on the life of Gracie (Julianne Moore), twenty years after she ended up in jail for seducing then-thirteen-year-old Joe as a thirty-something. After all, the actress is going to portray Gracie in a film about the scandal. Gracie and Joe are now married, but is their marriage based on abuse or romance? With as much pleasure as control, Haynes stages a flirtatious game between dysfunctional individuals, as if Ingmar Bergman is discovering his campy side
Wide Angle
- Review & Notes on director Todd Haynes by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video essays curated by Filmscalpel
L'Empire l 20.02
After media satire France, Bruno Dumont, one of the enfants terribles of French cinema, is back with a with an absurdist science-fiction film that can only have sprung from the mind of the director of La vie de Jésus, P'tit Quinquin and Ma Loute.
That director Bruno Dumont is not keen on colouring within the lines of genres and "good taste" has long since ceased to be something striking. But a bizarre, apocalyptic "space & earth opera" about extraterrestrial knights who make a rural coastal village in Northern France their battleground, no, that was impossible to predict. Somewhere between his previous films Ma Loute and La vie de Jésus and somewhere between heaven and earth, Dumont offers us his caustic, cruel and crazy vision of Star Wars, including lightsabers.
Wide Angle
- Review & Notes on director Bruno Dumont by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay in collaboration with Fantômas
Dream Scenario l 19.03
Sick of Myself director Kristoffer Borgli gives Nicolas Cage a dream role in his ingenious fantasy horror comedy.
The role of his dreams: that's one way to describe the character of Paul Matthews, portrayed by Nicolas Cage. He plays a balding, bearded biology professor who would easily win the title of Mr. Average. But one day, something strange happens: he appears in one of his daughters' dreams. Then in an ex's dream. Until he even starts featuring in the dreams of millions of people who have never even heard of the man. Dream Scenario is the refreshingly creative English-language debut of Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself). And after this film, it's entirely clear: if you're looking for comedies with a twist, Borgli is the right person to turn to.
FFG On Tour screening in collaboration with Cage of Wonders
Wide Angle (online on 18.03)
- Review & Notes on director by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video essays in collaboration with Filmscalpel
- Illustration by Lisa De Vriese and essay by Silke Bomberna (Cage of Wonders)
Golden Eighties l 16.04
Chantal Akerman ventures into the world of musical-comedies with this bubblegum pop filled film.
As queen of slow cinema, Chantal Akerman, surprised friend and foe with Golden Eighties. With the help of budding pop star Lio, of “Banana Split”-fame, Akerman set her sights on the broader audience of commercial cinema. The Galerie Toison d’Or, a shrine of 80s consumerism, is the second home of a brigade of hairdressers and shampoo girls, salespeople and their romantic troubles. Love triangles, extramarital affaires and old lovers cross in this little corner of Brussels. While Golden Eighties was a venture into commercial cinema, it is still filled with the Akerman essentials: feminism, consumerism and the memory of the Holocaust.
This Film Fest Gent On Tour avant-premiere of the new restoration of Golden Eighties is also part of the launch of Avila, present!, in collaboration with Cinea, Fondation Chantal Akerman and Cinematek.
Wide Angle
- Essay in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video essay in collaboration with Filmscalpel
- Visit to Chantal Akerman Expo
- Text collection Sabzian
Extra Activities Chantal Akerman
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Expo Chantal Akerman: Travelling
Still running at Bozar until 21 July is the exhibition Chantal Akerman: Travelling, which traces the atypical trajectory of the Belgian filmmaker, writer and artist. From the very beginning in Brussels to the Mexican desert, from her very first films to her last installations in 2015. This is the first major exhibition on the Brussels-based artist, featuring unique and never-before-seen images, production, and working documents from her archive. Follow all the stages of her career through the years and places Akerman has traversed and filmed. She went there to work with media as diverse as film, television, text, and installation. Chantal Akerman was an inspiration to an entire generation. She remains a role model for a lot of directors and artists today. Expect a journey full of images and archives – from the burlesque to the tragic, from the intimacy of a bedroom to the desert
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Expo Sur le plateau de Golden Eighties
From 11 April, you can visit Cinema Palace for an exhibition of never-before-published set photos taken by photographer Jen Ber, who captured Akerman and her crew during the filming of Golden Eighties. With their poppy and colourful nature - just like the film itself - the photos are of a unique quality and serve as the perfect homage to a lesser-known aspect of Akerman's work, namely the joyful connection to pop culture.
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Collection of texts by Sabzian
If you want to dive even deeper into Chantal Akerman's life and work after FFG On Tour and our Wide Angle, Sabzian offers a collection with no less than 14 texts.
Participating theatres 'Golden Eighties'
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Sphinx Cinema
Sphinx Cinema
Sint-Michielsbrug 3
9000 Gent
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Flagey
Flagey
Place Sainte-Croix
1050 Brussel
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Cinema Lumière Brugge
Cinema Lumière
Sint-Jacobsstraat 36
8000 Brugge
lumierecinema.be -
Cinema Lumière Antwerpen
Cinema Lumière Antwerpen
Lakenstraat 14
2000 Antwerpen
lumiere-antwerpen.be -
Cinema Zed
Cinema Zed
Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9C
3000 Leuven
cinemazed.be -
Cinema Westside
Cultuurcentrum Evergem
Weststraat 31
9940 Evergem
cultuurcentrumevergem.be -
Ter Dilft
Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft
Sint-Amandsesteenweg 41-43
2880 Bornem
terdilft.be -
Leietheater
Leietheater
Brielstraat 8
9800 Deinze
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Cinema Lumière Mechelen
Cinema Lumière Mechelen
Frederik de Merodestraat 28
2800 Mechelen
lumiere-mechelen.be
La Piscine l 21.05
Jacques Deray explores the difficulties of love, ambition and teenage rebellion in the South of France.
Young couple Jean-Paul and Marianne - played by ex-lovers Alain Delon and Romy Schneider - take a break at a friend's villa. Together, they enjoy the sun, the pool and each other - until Marianne's ex, Harry, shows up with his teenage daughter, Penelope. Harry sets his sights on Marianne and makes Jean-Paul's life miserable. Penelope rebels against her father and grows closer to Jean-Paul. Old and new frustrations surface and eventually lead to murder. Passion, intrigue and crime provide the perfect backdrop for a balmy spring evening.
Wide Angle (online on 20.05)
- Review & Notes on director by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay in collaboration with Fantômas
- Videoessays in collaboration with Filmscalpel
FFG On Tour | season 2023
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Io capitano, Matteo Garrone
In Io capitano, Gomorrah-director Matteo Garrone follows two Senegalese teenagers as they transit from Dakar to Sicily. A hallucinatory and chilling odyssey through the hopeful eyes of the young migrants, including the discovery of Seydou Sarr, who made his acting debut with this film. Both Garrone and Sarr were awarded at the Venice Film Festival.
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang
From his debut feature Rebels of the Neon God (1992), Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang has been developing a quasi-documentary angle combined with slow, contemplative camerawork. Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) is a melancholic film about the closure of a cinema in Taipei. Everything that, during a film screening, usually happens in the margins is now put under a magnifying glass. From the rattling of the film projector to the sweaty socks of the visitor next to you. Through all these details, the film celebrates the collective experience of watching a film.
Wide Angle dossier
- Tsai Ming-liang portrait by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Michaël Van Remoortere in collaboration with Fantômas
- Essay by Daphné De Weirt
- Podcast hosted by Tim Maerschand in collaboration with Urgent.fm
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch
Ever since the 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has been one of the flag bearers of American indie film. With his breakthrough film Stranger than Paradise (1984), a slow-paced road movie, he proved from the start that he had little interest in plot or action. Ghost Dog (1999), a mix of a samurai film and gangster epic accompanied by 90s hip-hop, is more accessible than his early work, but at the same time a typical Jarmusch characterised by long camera movements and a captivating protagonist.
Wide Angle dossier
- Jim Jarmusch portrait by Patrick Duynslaegher
- A deep-dive in the soundtrack by Tim Maerschand
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras already managed to build a solid reputation with her previous politically engaged documentaries, including My Country, My Country (2007) and Citizenfour (2014). With All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), she shifts her lens to another artist, pioneering photographer Nan Goldin. Poitras portrays Goldin as an artist for whom her work is both a political weapon and a form of trauma treatment.
Wide Angle dossier
- Historical background by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Bart Versteirt in collaboration with Fantômas
- Essay by Shauni De Gussem
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton & Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.fm
- Video-essays about All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - curated by David Verdeure from Filmscalpel
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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La double vie de Véronique, Krzysztof Kieślowski
In the 1970s, Kieślowski graduated from the Polish film school in Łódź (where Roman Polanski, among others, attended school) and started making documentaries. But it did not stop there: the Polish director switched to fiction and made deeply philosophical films about people's innermost thoughts and emotions. La double vie de Véronique, perhaps the highlight of his career, is about the mystical bond between the Polish Weronika and French Véronique.
Wide Angle dossier
- Essay by professor Polish literature Kris Van Heuckelom
- Director Krysztof Kieślowski in context by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Shauni De Gussem in collaboration with Fantômas
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton & Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.fm
- Video-essays about Kieślowski by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin - curated by David Verdeure from Filmscalpel
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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The Whale, Darren Aronofsky
With The Whale, director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan) pursues a phenomenal comeback for actor Brendan Fraser (Crash, The Mummy Trilogy). This heartwarming and heartbreaking drama portrays a father (Brendan Fraser), a reclusive teacher, trying to connect with his estranged teenage daughter, played by rising star Sadie Sink (Stranger Things). Expect a moving portrait of a man trying to give his life meaning once again.
Wide Angle dossier
- A portrait of Darren Aronofsky by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Silke Bomberna
- Essay by Michaël Van Remoortere - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton & Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.fm
- Video-essays about Darren Aronofsky - currated David Verdeure from Filmscalpel
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Alcarràs, Carla Simón
Felix Timmermans once wrote ‘I am just a poor farmer (...), yet farm life is the most beautiful life there is’. It's a challenge to prove him wrong after seeing the sun-drenched fields in the Catalan village of Alcarràs in Carla Simón's film of the same name. The Solé farming family, however, is in danger of losing its orchard and home after having grown peaches there for generations. In fact, Simón grew up there herself, with her uncle in a family of peach growers, and draws on her own childhood stories. Alcarràs, only the filmmaker's second full-length feature, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and is a summery, bittersweet portrait of a family - and with them an entire way of life.
Wide Angle dossier
- Review by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Boet Meijers - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton & Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
FFG On Tour | season 2022
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Un beau matin, Mia Hansen-Løve
In her eighth feature, Mia Hansen-Løve directs star Léa Seydoux towards a very sensitive portrait of a young mother and widow who begins a passionate relationship with an old friend while trying to cope with her father who has a neurodegenerative disease.
Wide Angle dossier
- Context by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Bart Versteirt - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Review by Joséphine Vandekerckhove
- Video-essays curated by David Verdeure - in collaboration with Filmscalpel.com
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton & Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund
Triangle of Sadness is the latest satire from Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, which earned him his second Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Like no other, Östlund dissects our cynical society founded on class differences and manages to make the elite feel uncomfortably in its privileged ivory tower. A frontal attack on our capitalist system and a Golden Palm winner that scrapes the gold leaf of our society.
Wide Angle dossier
- Essay by Alexander De Man
- Essay by Bjorn Gabriels - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video-essays by David Verdeure - in collaboration with Filmscalpel.com
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton and Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
- Interview with Ruben Östlund by Bo Alfaro Decreton
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Il buco, Michelangelo Frammartino
il buco (it) - the hole (eng)
At first glance, the ‘hole’ in the title is little more than a hole in the ground. But in Michelangelo Frammartino's third film, underneath it we find the Abisso del Bifurto, at almost 700 meters one of the deepest caves in Europe. In 1961, a group of speleologists decided to map this cave in Cherciara di Calabria. It seems an unspectacular subject, but Frammartino - who has an eye for rural Italy - captured it in breathtaking images and made a balanced, minimalist film poem. And that is not an easy task in a cave whose walls have never been touched by daylight. Cinema in its purest form.
Wide Angle dossier
- Review by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Essay by Anke Brouwers
- Essay by Bjorn Gabriels - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video-essays by David Verdeure - in collaboration with Filmscalpel.com
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton and Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu
In Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story, retired Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the Japanese countryside with their youngest, unmarried daughter. When they decide to visit their children in Tokyo and Osaka, the visit turns into a disappointment. Koichi and Shige turn out to be so busy with themselves and their own families that they have no time for their parents. Disillusioned, the couple travels back home. When Tomi falls ill on the way, it is the children's turn to make the long journey
Wide Angle dossier
- Review by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Context by Tim Deschaumes
- Personal essay by Bart Versteirt - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video-essay by David Verdeure - in collaboration with Filmscalpel.com
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton and Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Vortex, Gaspar Noé
After his delirious films full of sex, drugs and violence, Gaspar Noé surprises with Vortex, a film about love in times of dementia. And, taking the challenge even further, films this fading love story entirely in split screen.
Wide Angle dossier
- Review and context by Patrick Duynslaegher and Charlotte Timmermans
- Literary essay by Inge Coolsaet - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Essay about 'mind and body' in Noé's films, by Sven Hollebeke
- Video-essay by David Verdeure - in collaboration with Filmscalpel.com
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton and Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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A Chiara, Jonas Carpignano
After highlighting the lives of refugees and Roma in Calabria, director Jonas Carpignano concludes his trilogy on the southern Italian region with a portrait of a girl who discovers her father's double life.
Wide Angle dossier
- Review and context by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Literary essay by Hanne Schelstraete - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Video-essay by Chiara Grizzaffi and Astrid Ardent - in collaboration with Filmscalpel.com
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton and Tim Maerschand, including interview with Jonas Carpignano - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
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Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
For February's On Tour, FFG is presenting Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's grandiose masterpiece Drive My Car. The film was overwhelmed with praise in Cannes, where it also won the award for best screenplay. Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Drive My Car follows a theatre actor and director who agrees to perform a play in Hiroshima. For the occasion, he is assigned a young female driver who keeps mostly quiet.
Wide Angle dossier
- Review and context by Patrick Duynslaegher
- Murakami & Hamaguchi - Luk Van Haute
- Literary essay by Michaël van Remoortere - in collaboration with Fantômas
- Podcast hosted by Bo Alfaro Decreton and Tim Maerschand - in collaboration with Urgent.FM
→ read the Wide Angle (only in Dutch)
These are the participating cinemas for FFG On Tour
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Studio Skoop
Studio Skoop
Sint-Annaplein 63
9000 Gent
studioskoop.be -
Sphinx Cinema
Sphinx Cinema
Sint-Michielsbrug 3
9000 Gent
sphinx-cinema.be -
Studio Geel
Studio Geel
Werft 1
2440 Geel
studio-geel.be -
The Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre
Pieter Vanhoudtstraat 39
3582 Beringen
theroxytheatre.be -
Cinema Zed
Cinema Zed
Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9C
3000 Leuven
cinemazed.be -
CC Binder
CC Binder
Forum 9
2870 Puurs
ccbinder.be -
Flagey
Flagey
Heilig Kruisplein
1050 Brussel
flagey.be -
CC Jan Tervaert
CC Jan Tervaert
Kaaiplein 34
9220 Hamme
jantervaert.be -
CC Evergem - Cinema Westside
CC Evergem - Cinema Westside
Weststraat 31
9940 Evergem
cultuurcentrumevergem.be -
CC Zoetegem
CC Zoetegem
Hospitaalstraat 18
9620 Zottegem
cczoetegem.be -
CC Ter Dilft
CC Ter Dilft
Sint-Amandsesteenweg 41-43
2880 Bornem
terdilft.be -
Leietheater
Leietheater
Brielstraat 8
9800 Deinze
leietheater.be -
Netwerk Aalst
Netwerk Aalst
Houtkaai 15
9300 Aalst
netwerkaalst.be -
Cinema Lumière Antwerpen
Cinema Lumière Antwerpen
Lakenstraat 14
2000 Antwerpen
lumiere-antwerpen.be -
Cinema Lumière Brugge
Cinema Lumière
Sint-Jacobsstraat 36
8000 Brugge
lumierecinema.be -
Cinema Lumière Mechelen
Cinema Lumière Mechelen
Frederik de Merodestraat 28
2800 Mechelen
lumiere-mechelen.be -
Cinema Cartoon's Antwerpen
Cinema Cartoon's
Kaasstraat 4/6
2000 Antwerpen
cinemacartoons.be