Film Festival Oostende

The film follows two sisters, Inger and Ellen, whose relationship is put to the test during a bus trip to Paris.

A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history.

Twelve year old Zaffan lives in a small rural community in Malaysia. In full puberty, she realizes that her body is changing at an alarming rate.

Louis, a lonely undertaker, takes Igor on a hearse road trip. A meeting that changes everything.

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

A reclusive man suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter.

The initiatory journey of a rebellious and marginal young woman, the author of Wuthering Heights.

1770. Marianne is a painter, secretly commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent.

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, ...

Love, grief, isolation: a quiet film about what connects us—and what drives us apart. Sign language gives shape to the unspeakable.

Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end.

Dalva, 12, dresses and lives like a woman. One day, away from home, she meets Jayden and Samia. A new life begins.

At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote region of Iceland to build a church and photograph its inhabitants.

The story of Lia Rogiers, a young virtuoso pianist taking part in the famous Queen Elisabeth Competition.

A young French woman of twenty-five returns for the first time to Korea, where she was born before being adopted.

A young gay black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to enlist in the Marines.

Een chef-kok balanceert meerdere persoonlijke en professionele crises in een populair restaurant in Londen.

Luka, a young soldier craving battle, embeds himself in an isolated fort where men have been waiting in vain for ages for a mythical enemy to strike.

In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship ...

Academy Award Winner Javier Bardem stars as Blanco, proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish ...

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

The story of Inga, a middle-aged dairy farmer who rebels against the all powerful local Cooperative.

Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. Mohsen's ...

During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each ...

Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each ...

The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course ...

Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth ...

Political thriller is based on a true story about a young student beaten to death by the police in 1980s Communist Poland.

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.

Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the ...

When Rakel finds out she’s six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since abortion ...

It’s 1965 and Lia, a spirited young woman living in a small Sicilian town, is initially attracted to Lorenzo, the son of the most prominent (and possibly ...

A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits.

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 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, ...

The film is a comedy drama about a young woman, Laura, who has distanced herself from her family in the country to settle in Copenhagen as an author and ...

When Peter sets out on a magical journey to rescue his little sister Anne, he needs to travel to mysterious territory: the Moon!

Tony and Marie are passionate about Bangers, a trashy variant of the stock car. Following a tragedy, their couple breaks down. Tony hung up the races as ...

Ana gives birth at the local hospital and everything goes well. There is only a small problem with the paperwork – her file is not on the computer. A temporary ...

Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.

While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival ...

Riding their tuned bikes, Mati and her group of male friends intimidate their neighborhood and harass the girls.

This is true story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating.

A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary ...

Eurídice and Guida are inseparable sisters who live with their parents. After a dramatic event, they are separated.

Manuel and Driss grew up like two brothers, but today everything is between them. The return of Driss, now a cop, will put Manuel's life in danger.

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while ...

Cobain (15) tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over.

With quiet humor and delicate poetry, Alice Rohrwacher tells the fairy-tale story of an unusual saint in times of social upheaval.

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

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