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'Reality' is like a graphic by M.C. Escher: a film that'll actively approach your viewing experience and its conventions. It might leave the viewer puzzling though, as every attempt to make sense of the story is countered with ever more complex layers of metafiction and internal references. Several layers of reality are presented without a clear coherency in space and time, leading the unsuspecting viewer into elusive paradox. The film's form ties ends together in an impossible way and thereby hints to the artificial and dream-like nature of cinema.

Educators are tasked with a great responsibility: inspiring a thirst for knowledge and a passion for art and science in each generation’s youth. Nadav Lapid’s new film ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ takes this mission to a new extreme. The story itself is simple. The teacher Nira (Sarit Larry) discovers that one of her students Yoav (Avi Shnaidman) – a quiet, stoic child – will recite his own poems whose brilliance goes above and beyond her own abilities as a writer. In turn, she deems it her mission to nurture his ability at the risk of his and her wellbeing.

Franco Lolli's debut feature is a contemporary exercise in Neorealism that concerns itself with the misfortunes of a slightly disheveled pair. Ten-year-old Erik seems nothing short of a hoodlum in the making. His father Gabriel is a lethargic layabout who means well but cannot get his finances straight.

Kornél Mundruczó’s animal fable ‘White God’ depicts the stray dogs of Budapest rising up against their human tormenters after putting up with one too many abuses. The film was clearly made by dog lovers: Mundruczó shoots often from his canine stars’ eye level and allows them to band together in a kind of squatters’ community on an abandoned lot. When they rebel, the language of Cinema Apocalyptica – empty streets, people falling over each other in their mad rush to escape, wind howling through hastily made barricades – emboldens their cause. Nevertheless, the film shows dogs being shot, drugged, and tortured for sport, making a mockery of DoesTheDogDie.com.

Film Fest Gent stevent halfweg af op succes en kijkt reikhalzend uit naar zijn corebusiness: de vermaarde filmmuziekconcerten…

Belmodo, onze modebewuste partner, organiseerde dit jaar een glamoureuze Belmodo Movie Night, waarbij de fashionista's van Belmodo een beetje Hollywood in het land brengen. En welke film past beter bij deze glitter-& glamoursite dan '20.000 Days on earth' van de legendarische muziekheld, Nick Cave!

Naar aanleiding van de dag van het filmberoep en de daarbij gepaard gaande Belgische première van ‘Waste Land’ van Pieter Van Hees kwam minister van cultuur Sven Gatz naar Film Fest Gent.

Cinematek is de vaste partner van Film Fest Gent voor de vertoningen van zowat alle klassiekers (dit jaar bijvoorbeeld de titels van Fellini). Op deze dinsdagmiddag wordt in de Sphinx ook ‘La Sirène du Mississippi’ vertoond, een misdaadfilm van François Truffaut uit 1947. Deze film wordt voorafgegaan door de internationale première van 'Los 4 Golpes'.

Op 23 oktober organiseren Flanders Doc & Film Fest Gent 'Doc Talk' in aanwezigheid van 3 indrukwekkende Vlaamse documentairemakers.

Gisteren bezocht Laurent Cantet Gent om zijn film 'Retour à Ithaque' voor te stellen. Sjoerd ging met hem in gesprek!