Film Fest Gent !

Every year, Film Fest Gent brings together the biggest stars and talents from the world of cinema in Belgium. In addition to a fantastic range of films, the Film Fest Gent pays special attention to film music. Not only through a selection of documentaries about music and musicians, but especially through the organization of the World Soundtrack Awards. Discover the best of the past editions!
  • I Have Electric Dreams

    I Have Electric Dreams

    Drama

    2022

    1h.44min

    -16

    Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father.


  • The Delinquents

    The Delinquents

    Drama, Comedy

    2023

    3h.9min

    -10

    A bank employee plans to steal money, confess, and then serve his sentence while his colleague hides the loot.


  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    Documentary

    2024

    1h.35min

    -12

    This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers.


  • My Favourite Cake

    My Favourite Cake

    Drama, Comedy

    2024

    1h.37min

    -12

    Seventy-year-old Mahin, solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life.


  • The Kingdom

    The Kingdom

    Drama, Thriller

    2024

    1h.48min

    -12

    A chase where a daughter and her fugitive father bond.


  • September Says

    September Says

    Drama

    2025

    1h.40min

    -12

    When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds.


  • When the Light Breaks

    When the Light Breaks

    Drama

    2024

    1h.22min

    -12

    Una grapples with grief while harboring a secret, unable to fully express her emotions, as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.


  • Good One

    Good One

    Drama

    2024

    1h.29min

    tous publics

    On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.


  • Cairo Conspiracy

    Cairo Conspiracy

    Drama, Thriller

    2022

    2h.6min

    -16

    The great imam collapses and dies in front of his students. It's the start of a battle for influence to take his place.


  • Io Capitano

    Io Capitano

    Action & Adventure, Drama

    2023

    2h.1min

    -16

    The adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.


  • Amal

    Amal

    Drama, Queer

    2024

    1h.47min

    -12

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


  • Here

    Here

    Drama, Romance

    2024

    1h.22min

    tous publics

    As he is about to return to his country, a Romanian construction worker meets a doctoral student studying bryology.


  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Documentary

    2023

    1h.29min

    -16

    A visually stunning film about femininity and solidarity with the healing power of a sauna ritual.


  • The Quiet Girl

    The Quiet Girl

    Drama

    2022

    1h.35min

    tous publics

    Ireland, 1981. An effete young girl neglected by her family is sent to live with a foster family for the summer.


  • Oink

    Oink

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2022

    1h.12min

    tous publics

    A young girl tries to prove to her disapproving mother that she can potty train a cute but unruly piglet.


  • Omen

    Omen

    Drama

    2023

    1h.30min

    -10

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


  • Parallel Mothers

    Parallel Mothers

    Drama

    2021

    2h.3min

    -10

    Two unmarried women who accidentally became pregnant and are about to give birth meet each other in a hospital room.


  • The Stones and Brian Jones

    The Stones and Brian Jones

    Documentary

    2024

    1h.33min

    -12

    A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key ...


  • On the Fringe

    On the Fringe

    Drama

    2022

    1h.45min

    -10

    Interwoven stories told over the course of one day.


  • Small, Slow But Steady

    Small, Slow But Steady

    Drama

    2022

    1h.39min

    -12

    Keiko is deaf and lives on the outskirts of Tokyo, where she trains relentlessly in boxing.


  • Hors Satan

    Hors Satan

    Drama

    2011

    1h.50min

    -10

    In a maritime region with windswept dunes, a kind of hermit with mysterious powers becomes the guardian angel of a young girl. The light-eyed stranger ...


  • Sorry We Missed You

    Sorry We Missed You

    Drama

    2019

    1h.42min

    -12

    Ken Loach, the chronicler of social injustice, takes on the gig economy, liberalized labor markets and fake self-employment in his latest film.


  • A Prophet

    A Prophet

    Thriller

    2008

    2h.34min

    -16

    Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger ...


  • Where Is Anne Frank

    Where Is Anne Frank

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2021

    1h.39min

    -10

    The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future ...


  • Nobody Knows

    Nobody Knows

    Drama

    2003

    2h.21min

    -12

    Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, ...


  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    Animation, Drama

    2023

    1h.48min

    -10

    The film interweaves several of Haruki Murakami's short stories, giving them new philosophical and existential meaning.


  • Holy Spider

    Holy Spider

    Crime, Drama

    2022

    1h.56min

    -16

    A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers.


  • Sick of Myself

    Sick of Myself

    Comedy, Drama

    2022

    1h.37min

    -12

    Overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a sculptor, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention.


  • Pacifiction

    Pacifiction

    Drama, Thriller

    2022

    2h.45min

    -12

    The mesmerizing world of Albert Serra's PACIFICTION departs from the exotic portrayal of Tahiti, presenting an authentic glimpse into its beauty.


  • Corsage

    Corsage

    Drama

    2022

    2h.4min

    -12

    Christmas 1877, Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) celebrates her 40th birthday. Stifled by convention, she increasingly rebels against her image.


  • Call Jane

    Call Jane

    Drama

    2022

    2h.1min

    -12

    At a time when abortion is illegal, a married woman with an unwanted pregnancy works with a group of women to find help.


  • More Than Ever

    More Than Ever

    Drama

    2022

    2h.3min

    -12

    A couple who have been happily married for many years face an existential decision.


  • Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    Drama

    2021

    1h.27min

    -10

    Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.


  • Marina

    Marina

    Biography

    2013

    1h.40min

    -12

    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.


  • Echo

    Echo

    Drama

    2020

    1h.19min

    tous publics

    Carefully arranged portrait of Icelandic society shows protagonists from all walks of life.


  • Apples

    Apples

    Drama

    2021

    1h.31min

    -12

    After a pandemic, Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery programme that helps patients forge new identities.


  • One Fine Morning

    One Fine Morning

    Drama, Romance

    2022

    1h.52min

    -12

    While struggling to find a nursing home for her sick father, Sandra meets a long-lost friend.


  • Saint Omer

    Saint Omer

    Drama, Crime

    2022

    2h.2min

    -10

    A mother is accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by leaving her on a beach in northern France as the tide was coming in.


  • Falcon Lake

    Falcon Lake

    Drama, Romance

    2022

    1h.40min

    -12

    A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.


  • Mother and Son

    Mother and Son

    Drama

    2022

    1h.57min

    -12

    In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean.


  • Clara Sola

    Clara Sola

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2021

    1h.46min

    -12

    In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself ...


  • The Reason I Jump

    The Reason I Jump

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.22min

    tous publics


  • Why We Fight?

    Why We Fight?

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.48min

    -12

    A documentary that seeks to understand the violence that surrounds us, but also the violence within us.


  • Hit the Road

    Hit the Road

    Drama

    2021

    1h.33min

    tous publics

    A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, ...


  • The Innocents

    The Innocents

    Thriller, Horror

    2021

    1h.57min

    16+

    Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound ...


  • Cow

    Cow

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.34min

    -12

    A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.


  • War Pony

    War Pony

    Drama

    2023

    1h.55min

    -12

    Two young Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reserve try to find their way to adulthood in a hostile society.


  • The Hive

    The Hive

    Drama

    2022

    1h.21min

    -12

    An intimate story between Alice, a mother, and her two daughters.


  • Natural Light

    Natural Light

    Drama, Thriller

    2021

    1h.43min

    -16

    World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan ...


  • Vortex

    Vortex

    Drama

    2022

    2h.22min

    -10

    Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.


  • The Duke

    The Duke

    Drama

    2021

    1h.35min

    tous publics

    In 1961, a 60 year old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains ...


  • Sun Children

    Sun Children

    Drama

    2021

    1h.39min

    tous publics

    The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing ...


  • Inexorable

    Inexorable

    Thriller

    2022

    1h.38min

    -12

    Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his ...


  • A Chiara

    A Chiara

    Drama

    2021

    1h.56min

    -10

    The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday ...


  • The Lobster

    The Lobster

    Comedy

    2015

    1h.58min

    -16

    In a near future, single people are taken to The Hotel to find a romantic partner in 45 days, or else are transformed into beasts and sent off into The ...


  • Great Freedom

    Great Freedom

    Drama, Queer

    2021

    1h.56min

    -16

    Hans Hoffmann is gay during a time when homosexuality was still illegal in Germany and Austria. Nevertheless he continues his quest for freedom and love, ...


  • France

    France

    Comedy, Drama

    2021

    2h.13min

    -12

    A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.


  • The Enemy

    The Enemy

    Thriller, Drama

    2022

    1h.45min

    -12

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


  • Dealer

    Dealer

    Drama

    2021

    1h.44min

    -16

    14-year old drug dealer Johnny is in a home for young people. When he learns that he cannot go home at weekends any longer, he asks one of his customers, ...


  • Saint Nicholas's Horse

    Saint Nicholas's Horse

    Kids & Family, Comedy

    2005

    1h.36min

    tous publics

    The story of Winky Wong, a little Chinese girl who has just arrived in Europe and whose boundless imagination will help her to integrate. Everything is ...


  • Little Girl

    Little Girl

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.25min

    tous publics

    The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is ...


  • Slalom

    Slalom

    Drama

    2021

    1h.32min

    -10

    Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.


  • Ash Is Purest White

    Ash Is Purest White

    Crime, Romance

    2018

    2h.17min

    -12

    Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release ...


  • Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    Crime

    2019

    1h.42min

    -16

    Stéphane joins an anti-crime brigade in the 93. He will meet his teammates and discover the tensions between the groups in the neighborhood.


  • The Memory of a Killer

    The Memory of a Killer

    Thriller

    2003

    2h.3min

    -12

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


  • A Girl Missing

    A Girl Missing

    Drama

    2019

    1h.51min

    -12

    A home care nurse is suspected of being an accomplice after the youngest daughter in the family she works for was abused.


  • 3 Faces

    3 Faces

    Comedy

    2018

    1h.50min

    -12

    Three Iranian actresses: one from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today and a young girl longing to attend a conservatory.


  • Taxi

    Taxi

    Documentary

    2015

    1h.22min

    tous publics

    As Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. Director ...


  • Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct

    Drama, Thriller

    2018

    1h.37min

    -12

    Alice and Celine are best friends, just like their sons. Their complicity is flawless until the day an accident disrupts their lives.


  • End of the Century

    End of the Century

    Drama, Queer

    2019

    1h.24min

    -16

    Two strangers. A spontaneous sex date. The attraction between them is intense. Is this really their first meeting?


  • Enfant Terrible

    Enfant Terrible

    Drama

    2020

    2h.14min

    -16

    When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, ...


  • Thelma

    Thelma

    Drama, Queer

    2017

    1h.56min

    -10

    Thelma leaves home to go and study in Oslo. There she discovers that she is in communication with supernatural forces.


  • Louder Than Bombs

    Louder Than Bombs

    Drama

    2015

    1h.49min

    tous publics

    Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. ...


  • Oslo, 31 August

    Oslo, 31 August

    Drama

    2011

    1h.36min

    tous publics

    Explores day in the life of Anders, a recovering drug addict. Reaching the end of a treatment course at a rehab centre, Anders is clean and has a day's ...


  • A Ciambra

    A Ciambra

    Crime, Drama

    2017

    1h.58min

    -10

    Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows ...


  • Are We Lost Forever

    Are We Lost Forever

    Drama, Queer

    2020

    1h.44min

    -10

    One morning it is over. For Hampus it is a relief to break up from their destructive relationship, while Adrian is devastated. Will he be able to survive ...


  • 1945

    1945

    Drama

    2017

    1h.31min

    -12

    An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose ...


  • Tench

    Tench

    Drama

    2019

    1h.39min

    -16

    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. ...


  • Martin Eden

    Martin Eden

    Drama

    2019

    2h.8min

    -12

    Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education.


  • The Lunchbox

    The Lunchbox

    Comedy

    2012

    1h.44min

    tous publics

    A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life...


  • And Then We Danced

    And Then We Danced

    Drama, Romance

    2019

    1h.53min

    -12

    The film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.


  • Carol

    Carol

    Drama, Queer

    2015

    1h.58min

    -12

    An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.


  • High Life

    High Life

    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller

    2018

    1h.53min

    -16

    In Claire Denis' English debut, convicted criminals Monte (Robert Pattinson) and Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) are sent on a one-way space mission.


  • Leto

    Leto

    Biography, Comedy

    2018

    2h.6min

    -10

    Punky biopic about the underground music scene in Leningrad just before perestroika, based on the early years of pop icon Viktor Tsoi and his band.


  • Coureur

    Coureur

    Drama

    2018

    1h.36min

    -12

    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, ...


  • Wildlife

    Wildlife

    Drama

    2018

    1h.46min

    tous publics

    14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest ...


  • Before We Vanish

    Before We Vanish

    Drama

    2017

    2h.9min

    -10

    Three aliens come to Earth and take over human bodies in preparation for a massive invasion .


  • Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.24min

    tous publics

    BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together ...


  • System Crasher

    System Crasher

    Drama

    2019

    2h.0min

    -10

    In her mad quest for love, 9-year-old Benni scares everyone around her with her indomitable energy.


  • Carmen and Lola

    Carmen and Lola

    Drama, Queer

    2018

    1h.42min

    tous publics

    Carmen, a Romni, has resigned herself to the traditional expectations placed on her until she meets Lola and questions everything.


  • Divine Love

    Divine Love

    Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2019

    1h.41min

    -16

    Brazil, 2027: Joana is deeply religious. At work, she encourages divorcing couples to reconsider their breakup.


  • Irreversible

    Irreversible

    Love & Sex

    2002

    1h.37min

    -16

    Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger ...


  • We Will Remember Them

    We Will Remember Them

    Documentary

    2018

    58min

    tous publics

    Ever since 1919, the daily life in Ypres, in Flanders Fields, has been dedicated to commemorating the First World War. The films makes a journey through ...


  • Stranger by the Lake

    Stranger by the Lake

    Queer, Thriller

    2013

    1h.32min

    -16

    While cruising, Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, powerful, and deadly dangerous man.


  • Submarino

    Submarino

    Drama

    2010

    1h.45min

    -12

    As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers ...


  • Mountains May Depart

    Mountains May Depart

    Drama

    2015

    2h.6min

    -12

    The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.


  • A Season in France

    A Season in France

    Drama

    2017

    1h.37min

    -12

    Abbas flees violence in the Central African Republic with his two children to build a new life in France.


  • Neruda

    Neruda

    Drama

    2016

    1h.48min

    -12

    An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s.


  • Camille Claudel, 1915

    Camille Claudel, 1915

    Drama, Biography

    2012

    1h.37min

    -10

    Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive ...


  • Rosie

    Rosie

    Drama, Romance

    1998

    1h.37min

    -12