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Film Fest Gent verwelkomt niet enkel flink wat Belgische en Franse gasten, maar ook internationaal talent uit alle uithoeken van de wereld.

'Regression', de nieuwste speelfilm van Alejandro Amenábar ('Abre los ojos', 'Mar Adentro', 'The Others') zal vertoond worden op het 42e Film Fest Gent in de sectie Galas & Specials. De hoofdcast bestaat uit Emma Watson en Ethan Hawke. De film gaat op 17 oktober in Belgische première op het festival, in aanwezigheid van Amenábar zelf.

Gisteren was de Belgische première van de langverwachte 'Waste Land'. Regisseur Pieter Van Hees kwam zijn film voorstellen. Ook de cast, waaronder Peter Van den Begin en Babetida Sadjo, waren van de partij.

The only thing slicker than the ice that coats the ground in Diao Yi’nan’s ‘Black Coal’ is the heavy aestheticism that has dominated the neo-noir genre of late. Ablaze with colored lights in nearly every frame, Diao’s northern Chinese detective puzzler holds on to the stylish tendencies of American counterparts like Drive, but grounds them in a world that feels ultimately more livable.

'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!