Belgian cinema

The silence after the disaster: an emergency call center operator witnesses a crime. In the subsequent trial, she has to endure a lot.

When a student comes out as queer, her teacher is forced to choose between conservative religion and individual freedom.

A psychologist convinced she’s an excellent mother clashes with her daughter in the midst of a teenage crisis.

Jessica is a border patrol officer between Mexico and Arizona, a desert that migrants cross despite the danger, and which she is proud to defend.

The district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is ...

Tori and Lokita, two young refugees in Belgium, find strength and friendship while facing the harsh reality of their new life.

After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.

Remy and Sandra suffer from “Past Love Syndrome.” To cure themselves, they must sleep with their exes.

A story of family, friendship, and betrayal in the violent world of the Philadelphia underworld.

A man, a woman and a sexual fantasy.

A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.

Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end.

Increasingly disheartened by the monotony of his provincial existence, young Senegalese Bandiougou has not long to wait before he can leave his native ...

One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold...

The story of a devastating love affair in which a woman holds her man captive so as not to lose him.

Lucien is a human magnet: anything made of iron sticks to his body.

A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.

A last love story, lived with the intensity of a first...

The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.

The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past, her own and her country’s. ...

Lee is a musician and plays in a band together with his high school friends. He wants to build a musical career but realizes his less then talented friends ...

Phil, a middle-aged man suffers a stroke and loses his memory. Millie, who takes care of him, tells him falsely that they were secretly in love.

Based on a true story: The wife of a politician is found dead in a hotel room. What happened in room 108?

Nika leaves Ukraine to follow her boyfriend Vlad, a French foreign legionnaire, to a military camp in Corsica. There, she meets the commander's wife.

Alex and Noémie would like to have a child. But their plans are turned upside down when Alex's mother Suzanne falls ill with "semantic dementia".

In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, ...

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited ...

A hit man suffering from Alzheimer's disease is pursued by two detectives.

A look back at the winter of 1960-1961, the scene of Belgium's longest general strike since the Second World War.

A bereaved nudist camping tinkerer finds himself on an existential quest as he tries to recover his favorite hammer.

An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway rest ...

A teenage stranger is welcomed into a household in a devout Catholic village and gradually reveals his motives and what seem to be magical powers.

Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his Belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, ...

Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. ...

In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work, a ...

Els, a former surgeon, and the Palestinian refugee Sulayman happen to sit opposite each other on the train. There is nothing that suggests the great impact ...

For the first time in his 40-year career, Arno Hintjens allows a filmmaker to follow his creative process. The documentary follows him during the recording ...

The portrait of the family of a Brussels drag queen composed of four generations in their dressing rooms during a show. As facial features ae covered by ...

An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all-embracing networks of power. In ...

About the friendship between a Western tourist and a coachman from Morocco.

Anna is 16, and lives with her young mother, Rebecca. It is the end of another summer defined by her mom’s flings and conquests, but during which Anna ...

A nasty short with lots of meat.

Lucien is a farmer, living together with his wife far away from society. When he drives his tractor in the field, he has an accident.

Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate ...

Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one ...

Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, ...

Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, played ...

During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent ...

The lives of 4th-graders in the section 'electrical installations' in a Brussels school: courses, football, tribulations and the search for housing and ...

When Eva, a young journalist, films a documentary about the mean streets in Brussels she soon gets involved in the life of a young Moroccan guy.

Starting from the inside of their films, "The Age of Reason, the cinema of the Dardenne brothers" proposes a journey into a masterful body of work.

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt ...

The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned hamlet. The ...

An old man who isolated himself from civilization receives an unexpected visitor.

August is a carefree boy who likes to discover the world and to play outside with his best friend Lize. One day, he encounters the seamy side of life and ...

Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from ...

A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete ...

Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it's a chicken, a Rabbit ...

A police patrol investigates strange chemical fumes emanating from an industrial estate. They arrive, just as a young woman, Laurie, covered in blood and ...

May is 27 years old and she leaves still at home. Her family is busy rebuilding with scare resources. May France meets Johnny, who drives her between camps ...

In the shipyards of the port of Surabaya, Mark searches in vain for the solidarity that would allow him to get his boat back on the water. Injured and ...

Louise gives birth to a baby boy who has the peculiarity of being invisible. She tells him never to reveal himself to the world.

Zahira, who lives in Belgium, is supposed to follow Pakistani tradition and enter into an arranged marriage. She seeks help from her brother.

David Verhaeghe seeks to uncover the truth behind the family secret: was his Italian grandmother the lovechild of legendary Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, ...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This diplomat, Sinologist and scholar is mainly known for his ...

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The story of Father Adolf Daens' fight for the working class in the town of Aalst, where industry was booming.

When Jerome returns to Paris, he's got only one thing on his mind: to see Charlie. Wandering the streets of Montmartre, he reflects on their intense friendship ...

Dan's an average businessman that has returned home to find his wife has gone missing. He encounters several people that tell him their own stories and ...

Fifteen year old Georgiana is left to raise her 6 siblings in Bacau (Romania), since mother has to work abroad to get by. Georgiana is turning fifteen ...

Faustine, Armel, Felix and Camille are all in their thirties. They live in Brussels and have been friends for years. In their prime, they are busy building ...

A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation's nightmare.

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A journalist is about to settle with his girlfriend when his life and views get shaken up by the young and beautiful Pakistani refugee Nadia. At work his ...

Harassed by bullies because of his mild autism, teen Ben (Greg Timmermans) finds refuge in an online computer game, which leads him to his virtual dream ...

On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar ...

The Belgian Amicale of Auschwitz-Birkenau is organising a three-day trip to both camps for 120 young university students accompanied by 10 survivors. The ...

Presents World War II European war footage juxtaposed with words from Nazi publications, laws, announcements, directives, proclamations, war books, notices, ...

Film in cinéma-vérité style exploring the boundery between fiction and reality of actors and the roles they (have to) play.

A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings ...

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Frikke, 14, discovers a sinister computer game that uses real children from his neighbourhood as players. In a race against time he must find its evil ...

From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived. Modus Operandi raises and systematically ...

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even ...

In a remote fortress, a sinister sorority of surgically skilled sisters lie in wait of their next victim. They control a bevy of caged women who have been ...

In the Ardennes, the agriculture goes worse than anywhere else. Their are less ans less farms where the husband, the wife and the family work together. ...

A documentary about life and works of director Frans Buyens.

Tea or electricity tells the epic story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas.Over ...

Laura learns that her father is in a coma. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, perhaps even to get revenge. It’s ...

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Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and ...

Between a chocolate factory and quiet affairs, Marieke navigates grief and desire—until a stranger reopens old wounds.

The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.

A celebration of every boy's dream to be on his own, to go on a fun escape with his best pals, with a touch of Stand by Me and Mark Twain.

A man waits, endlessly, for his wife to finish getting ready before going to a ball...

A renowned conductor suddenly pulls out of an evening rehearsal of Madame Butterfly. The opera director senses something is going on and forces the musician ...

Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim ...

In this somber movie, Martin (Heinz Bennent), a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends ...