Film Fest Gent

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 ...

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. ...

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.

In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself ...

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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, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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