Film Fest Gent

  • One Fine Morning

    One Fine Morning

    2022

    1h.52min

    tous publics CSA

    Sandra lives in a small apartment in Paris with her eight-year-old daughter. She regularly visits her father, Georg, who suffers from a neurodegenerative ...


  • Saint Omer

    Saint Omer

    2022

    2h.2min

    -10 CSA

    A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. ...


  • Falcon Lake

    Falcon Lake

    2022

    1h.40min

    -12 CSA

    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.


  • Clara Sola

    Clara Sola

    2021

    1h.46min

    -12 CSA

    In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself ...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

    2020

    1h.22min

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  • Coureur

    Coureur

    2018

    1h.36min

    -12 CSA

    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, ...


  • Why We Fight?

    Why We Fight?

    2022

    1h.48min

    -12 CSA

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


  • Hit the Road

    Hit the Road

    2021

    1h.33min

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    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

    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

    2022

    1h.34min

    -12 CSA

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


  • War Pony

    War Pony

    2023

    1h.55min

    -12 CSA

    The interlocking stories of two Lakota boys growing up on Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill just wants to make something of himself. Meanwhile, 12-year-old ...


  • The Hive

    The Hive

    2022

    1h.21min

    -12 CSA

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


  • Natural Light

    Natural Light

    2021

    1h.43min

    -16 CSA

    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

    2022

    2h.22min

    -10 CSA

    Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.


  • The Duke

    The Duke

    2021

    1h.35min

    tous publics CSA

    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

    2021

    1h.39min

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    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

    2022

    1h.38min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2021

    1h.56min

    -10 CSA

    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

    2015

    1h.58min

    -16 CSA

    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 ...


  • Where Is Anne Frank

    Where Is Anne Frank

    2021

    1h.39min

    -10 CSA

    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 ...


  • Great Freedom

    Great Freedom

    2021

    1h.56min

    -16 CSA

    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, ...


  • Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

    2021

    1h.27min

    -10 CSA

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


  • The Club

    The Club

    2015

    1h.38min

    -16 CSA

    Four ageing men live together in a secluded house on a windswept Chilean coastline. Each has been sent there to purge sins of the past. Adhering to a ...


  • Still the Water

    Still the Water

    2013

    2h.1min

    -10 CSA

    Two teenagers from the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima are confronted with death and transience. Both have to grow up, shed doubts and shyness. The introverted ...


  • France

    France

    2021

    2h.13min

    -12 CSA

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


  • A Prophet

    A Prophet

    2008

    2h.34min

    -16 CSA

    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 ...


  • Home

    Home

    2016

    1h.44min

    -16 CSA

    Compelling exploration of indifferent and resentful teenagers and the conflicts with their parents.


  • Holy Motors

    Holy Motors

    2012

    1h.51min

    -12 CSA

    From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the mysterious life of a mystical man called Monsieur Oscar.


  • Ema

    Ema

    2019

    1h.47min

    -12 CSA

    A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.


  • Capernaum

    Capernaum

    2018

    2h.0min

    -12 CSA

    Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being ...


  • The Worst Person in the World

    The Worst Person in the World

    2021

    2h.7min

    -12 CSA

    Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading ...


  • The Enemy

    The Enemy

    2022

    1h.45min

    -12 CSA

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


  • Nobody Knows

    Nobody Knows

    2003

    2h.21min

    -12 CSA

    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, ...


  • Dealer - 2021

    Dealer - 2021

    2021

    1h.44min

    -16 CSA

    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, ...


  • American Honey

    American Honey

    2016

    2h.38min

    -16 CSA

    In order to escape her dead-end life in Oklahoma, an 18-year-old named Star (Sasha Lane) joins a crew of young salespeople who are hawking magazine subscriptions ...


  • Saint Nicholas's Horse

    Saint Nicholas's Horse

    2005

    1h.36min

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    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 ...


  • Gagarine

    Gagarine

    2021

    1h.38min

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    Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When ...


  • Little Girl

    Little Girl

    2020

    1h.25min

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    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

    2021

    1h.32min

    -10 CSA

    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

    2018

    2h.17min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2019

    1h.42min

    -16 CSA

    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

    2003

    2h.3min

    -12 CSA

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


  • A Girl Missing

    A Girl Missing

    2019

    1h.51min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2018

    1h.50min

    -12 CSA

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


  • Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct

    2018

    1h.37min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2019

    1h.24min

    -16 CSA

    Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.


  • Enfant Terrible

    Enfant Terrible

    2020

    2h.14min

    -16 CSA

    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

    2017

    1h.56min

    -10 CSA

    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

    2015

    1h.49min

    tous publics CSA

    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

    2011

    1h.36min

    tous publics CSA

    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

    2017

    1h.58min

    -10 CSA

    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

    2020

    1h.44min

    -10 CSA

    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

    2017

    1h.31min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2019

    1h.39min

    -16 CSA

    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

    2019

    2h.8min

    -12 CSA

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


  • The Lunchbox

    The Lunchbox

    2012

    1h.44min

    tous publics CSA

    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

    2019

    1h.53min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2015

    1h.58min

    -12 CSA

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


  • High Life

    High Life

    2018

    1h.53min

    -16 CSA

    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

    2018

    2h.6min

    -10 CSA

    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.


  • Wildlife

    Wildlife

    2018

    1h.46min

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    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

    2017

    2h.9min

    -10 CSA

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


  • Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

    2018

    1h.24min

    tous publics CSA

    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 ...


  • Echo

    Echo

    2020

    1h.19min

    tous publics CSA

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


  • System Crasher

    System Crasher

    2019

    2h.0min

    -10 CSA

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


  • Divine Love

    Divine Love

    2019

    1h.41min

    -16 CSA

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


  • Irreversible

    Irreversible

    2002

    1h.37min

    -16 CSA

    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

    2018

    58min

    tous publics CSA

    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 ...


  • The Missing Picture

    The Missing Picture

    2012

    1h.30min

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    Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.


  • Viceroy's House

    Viceroy's House

    2017

    1h.47min

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    In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home ...


  • Submarino

    Submarino

    2010

    1h.45min

    -12 CSA

    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 ...


  • A Season in France

    A Season in France

    2017

    1h.37min

    -12 CSA

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


  • Neruda

    Neruda

    2016

    1h.48min

    -12 CSA

    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

    2012

    1h.37min

    -10 CSA

    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 ...


  • Hors Satan

    Hors Satan

    2011

    1h.50min

    -10 CSA

    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 ...


  • Rosie

    Rosie

    1998

    1h.37min

    -12 CSA


  • Once

    Once

    2006

    1h.25min

    tous publics CSA

    A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches ...


  • The Song of Sparrows

    The Song of Sparrows

    2008

    1h.36min

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    When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural ...