It must be heaven
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality…
Continuer
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsSybille, a divorced mother, can’t stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across Kyrgyzstan. Accompanied only by their two horses, mother and son face the magnificent yet…
The Artist
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsHollywood 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.
Galaxy Quest
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsThe alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.
Di Jiu Tian Chang
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsSo Long, My Son traces the lives of two families over three decades of social, political and human upheaval in China. Following the loss of a child in a tragic accident, their paths separate. Destinies ebb and flow, and fortunes are transformed under the impact of a country’s changing face. Yet even as their lives…
OSS 117 : Rio ne répond plus
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsThe ticket of the screening OSS 117 does grant you access to the meeting. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117, is one of the best French spies. In 1967 he is sent on a mission to Rio de Janeiro in search of a former Nazi officer who has taken refuge in South America…
Concert – Fastlane Candies
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsAfter a first EP in the wake of the single Wound Me and a tour which took them to a/o Paris and London, the Liège band Fastlane Candies recorded the album Telenovelas in 2013. Almost a hundred concerts later (Les Nuits Botanique, Les Ardentes, Brussels Summer Festival, Francofolies, etc.), the group put the guitars and…
Un ange
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, Brussels'Angel' portrays the last 24 hours of the life of world-renowned, but deprecated sportsman, Thierry. During a holiday in Senegal he meets a prostitute, Fae, who quickly falls in love with him. In each other they find dignity and hope to free themselves from their troublesome situations. But more important than understanding and self-reflection, they…
Masterclass Michel Hazanavicius
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsMichael Hazanavicius was born in Paris in 1967. After studying art his career takes off in television when he joins the comedy team Les Nuls (Canal+). Also for Canal+, with Dominique Mezerette he creates a series of “hijacked films” such as La Classe Américaine for which he strings together scenes from various Hollywood classics and…
Ma Vie de Courgette
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsCourgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother's disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at…
Di Jiu Tian Chang
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsSo Long, My Son traces the lives of two families over three decades of social, political and human upheaval in China. Following the loss of a child in a tragic accident, their paths separate. Destinies ebb and flow, and fortunes are transformed under the impact of a country’s changing face. Yet even as their lives…
Masterclass Bouli Lanners
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsHe follows up the work of economists and nuclear physicists, supports the mobilization of youngsters on climate issues, fearlessly critizes the authorities’ inertia on social media... Bouli Lanners is on the frontline when it comes to global warming and the nuclear issue. At the BRIFF Bouli Lanners seizes his carte blanche to discuss these thorny…
Ilha das Flores
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsA tomato is planted, picked, sold and ends up in the dump on “Flower Island” among pigs, women and children. The difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
Taiyô No Futa
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsMarch 11th 2011 a major earthquake hits Japan and the ensuing tsunami compounds the triple nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s team does what it can to face the situation. What actually happened in the Prime Minister’s residence during this, the worst crisis in the country’s history? Has the truth been completely revealed?
Le Redoutable
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsParis 1967. Jean Luc Godard, the most popular filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years younger than him. They are happy, in love, attractive and they get married. But, the reception of the movie, following its release, triggers a profound questionning for Jean Luc. May…
First man
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsA Biopic on the life of the legendary American Astronaut Neil Armstrong from 1961-1969, on his journey to becoming the first human to walk the moon. Exploring the sacrifices and costs on the Nation and Neil himself, during one of the most dangerous missions in the history of space travel.
Girl
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsDetermined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realises her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline since she was born a…
Pas son genre
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsClément, a young and parisian philosophy teacher is sent to Arras for a year. Far from Paris and its lights, Clément has a lot of free time. Then, he meets Jennifer, a pretty hairdresser, who becomes his lover. On the one hand, Clément’s life is governed by Kant and Proust. On the other hand, Jennifer’s…
Mon Ket
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsDany Versavel has problems with his 15 year old son Sullivan, who doesn’t like it that his dad is trying to be the ‘cool guy’ in prison. For Dany, his "ket" is the most important person in his life, so he decides to escape from prison to be with his son.
Yves
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsBudding rapper and procrastinator Jerem tries out a smart fridge named Yves. This connected friendship gives rise to a worldwide hit and a rivalry for love. A surrealist fable about artificial intelligence, born out of the crazy mind of Benoît Forgeard who proves that a fridge can indeed change your life!
Shooting the Mafia
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsSicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. Exposing the Cosa Nostra's barbaric reign, she bore unflinching witness to their crimes and has led a life continually defined by defiance and passion.
WALL-E
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn a distant, but not so unrealistic, future where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of Earth's history and show tunes, WALL-E is…
Yves
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsBudding rapper and procrastinator Jerem tries out a smart fridge named Yves. This connected friendship gives rise to a worldwide hit and a rivalry for love. A surrealist fable about artificial intelligence, born out of the crazy mind of Benoît Forgeard who proves that a fridge can indeed change your life!
Shooting the Mafia
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsSicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. Exposing the Cosa Nostra's barbaric reign, she bore unflinching witness to their crimes and has led a life continually defined by defiance and passion.
Shooting the Mafia
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsSicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. Exposing the Cosa Nostra's barbaric reign, she bore unflinching witness to their crimes and has led a life continually defined by defiance and passion.
Hellhole
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsHellhole follows three starkly different people in the months after the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter pilot deployed in the Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young man with Algerian roots is asked by his brother to do him a deceivingly simple…
A perdre la raison
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsMurielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget who provides him with a comfortable existence. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds herself caught up in an unhealthy…
La Flor Part. 1
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsThe first story is a kind of B-film about a cursed mummy; the second episode blends a drama about a musical duo that is still going to record a song together, despite the broken relationship, with the vicissitudes of a murky society looking for a serum for eternal life. Both episodes do have a start,…
The Road
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsIn a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.
The Funeral
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsThe ticket of the screening The Funeral doesn’t grant you access to the meeting. If you wish to assist to the meeting, please subscribe here. The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and…
Forbidden Planet
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsIn this classic and much-emulated work of science fiction, a rescue mission to a distant planet discovers the two survivors of a space ship that crashed 20 years before on the Forbidden Planet.
Cavale
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsKathy, a secretive and rebellious teenager, wants only one thing: to escape from the psychiatric facility in which she has been locked up. She very quickly escapes, and goes to find her father, the only one who can free her from ‘this prison’. Against all odds, her crazy, wild roommates, Nabila and Carole, invite themselves…
Masterclass Abel Ferrara
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsWith a reputation as a director of controversial cinema, Abel Ferrara moves into his fourth decade of filmmaking with continued work in the US as well as European projects. Recent successes include Pasolini, starring Willem Dafoe, and Welcome to NY, starring Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset. Born in the Bronx in 1951, Ferrara started on…
THE LAST TO SEE THEM ALIVE
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsBased on a real event, GLI ULTIMI A VEDERLI VIVERE counts down the final hours of a family that will be murdered in the morning. By revealing the ending right from the start, Summa injects the film with a growing intensity that is remarkably underpinned by a script devoid of artifice or cynicism. We are…
Tommaso
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsTommaso is the story of an American artist living in Rome with his young European wife Nikki and their 3-year- old daughter, Dee Dee. A work concerning imagination.
PARWARESHGAH
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big Bollywood fan and daydreams himself into some of his favorite movie scenes. Until one day, the police takes him to a Soviet orphanage. While the political situation in Kabul is changing,…
La Classe Américaine : Le Grand Détournement
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsGeorge Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "cr*ppy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe Américaine is a montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed to fit the narration of what is arguably the greatest story…
Pasolini
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsRome, November 1975. The last day of the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini. On the verge of completing his masterpiece, he pursues his ruthless criticism of the ruling class, risking his life for it. His statements are outrageous and his films are persecuted by the censors. Pasolini is going to spend his last hours with…
Cavale
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsKathy, a secretive and rebellious teenager, wants only one thing: to escape from the psychiatric facility in which she has been locked up. She very quickly escapes, and goes to find her father, the only one who can free her from ‘this prison’. Against all odds, her crazy, wild roommates, Nabila and Carole, invite themselves…
Cavale
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsKathy, a secretive and rebellious teenager, wants only one thing: to escape from the psychiatric facility in which she has been locked up. She very quickly escapes, and goes to find her father, the only one who can free her from ‘this prison’. Against all odds, her crazy, wild roommates, Nabila and Carole, invite themselves…
La Flor Part. 2
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsSome time in the 1980s, in the Argentine pampas, four female spies have to successfully complete ‘Operation Hercules’. Through flashbacks describing each of the characters’ backstories an intriguing narrative web is being spun. A narrative masterpiece.
THE LAST TO SEE THEM ALIVE
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsBased on a real event, GLI ULTIMI A VEDERLI VIVERE counts down the final hours of a family that will be murdered in the morning. By revealing the ending right from the start, Summa injects the film with a growing intensity that is remarkably underpinned by a script devoid of artifice or cynicism. We are…
Seule à mon mariage
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsInsolent, spontaneous and funny; Pamela, a young Roma woman, does not ressemble any of the girls of her community. She lives alone with her grandmother and her baby in a hut where they share the same bed. But what can you do with a two-year old child when you dream of being free? Pamela embarks…
Kona Fer Í Stríd
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsHalla declares a one-woman-war on the aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves... Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
It must be heaven
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality…
Zombi Child
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsHaiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale…
Rosetta
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsEveryday, Rosetta fights for a job that she finds, that she loses, that she finds again, that is taken away from her, that she takes back, obsessed by the fear of disappearing, by the shame of not belonging. She wants a normal life, with them, among them.
Talk with Emilie Dequenne
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsEmilie Dequenne was born in Belgium in 1981. She got her first role in Rosetta from the Dardenne Brothers for which she earned the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. In 2001, with Le Pacte des loups, directed by Christophe Gans, she won the Prix de l’Espoir Feminin (Female Rising Star…
Dirty God
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsA half-burnt face and a 2-year-old little girl. That’s all Jade has left of her ex who disfigured her with acid. The violence of this “love” relationship is followed by that of other people’s gaze. Confronted with a new reality that she has not chosen, Jade slowely starts to build a new life.
Light as feathers
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsEryk grows up without a father in a village in the Polish countryside. Aged 15, attracted to his young neighbour, he does not know the limit between love and abuse. For her first film, Pel turns to fictional documentary to address the sensitive issue of sexual abuse. A bold film half-way between retribution and forgiveness.
Gravity
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsDr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other…
PARWARESHGAH
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsIn the late 1980s, 15-year-old Qodrat lives in the streets of Kabul and sells cinema tickets on the black market. He is a big Bollywood fan and daydreams himself into some of his favorite movie scenes. Until one day, the police takes him to a Soviet orphanage. While the political situation in Kabul is changing,…
Light as feathers
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsEryk grows up without a father in a village in the Polish countryside. Aged 15, attracted to his young neighbour, he does not know the limit between love and abuse. For her first film, Pel turns to fictional documentary to address the sensitive issue of sexual abuse. A bold film half-way between retribution and forgiveness.
Dirty God
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsA half-burnt face and a 2-year-old little girl. That’s all Jade has left of her ex who disfigured her with acid. The violence of this “love” relationship is followed by that of other people’s gaze. Confronted with a new reality that she has not chosen, Jade slowely starts to build a new life.
M.I.A. / MATANGY / MAYA
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsShe started off as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka’s armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the government in the face of a vicious and bloody civil war. When her family fled to the UK, she became Maya, a precocious and creative immigrant teenager in London. Finally, the world met her as M.I.A.…
AREN’T YOU HAPPY?
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsThrough her melancholy heroine’s quest for meaning, Susan Heinrich deconstructs the “male gaze” with long philosophical tirades, comical meetings and hyper-dramatized pop visuals. Cult and provocative, this first film outlines a new, post-modern and joyfully desperate feminist archetype.
Masterclass Bertrand Bonello
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsA musician by training, Bertrand Bonello directed his first feature film, Quelque chose d’organique, which was screened at the Panorama of the Berlin Festival in 1998. His next film, Le Pornographe, was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week in 2001. Tiresia (2003) and De la guerre (2008) followed, as did a remarkable short film, Cindy: The…
The Projectionist
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsDirector Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York) traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working as a teenager in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan, defying gentrification, changing viewing habits and corporate dominance in the 1980’s, only to emerge decades later as…
Ray and Liz
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsOn the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humour, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of experience of growing up in a…
There is no tomorrow
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsThere's No Tomorrow is an animated film dealing with resource depletion, energy, growth and collapse. It is a primer on the energy dilemmas facing the world of the 21st century. It should be noted that most people missed the point of the movie, which was not about peak oil or energy per se, but an attack…
Concert – Les Juliens
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsLes Juliens is first and foremost a musical joke, created as a one-time show... but thanks to a supportive audience, they're still here! Les Juliens is also the cream of the crop of Belgian indie-rock among Fabiola, Monolithe Noir, The Tellers, Elvis Ghettoblaster, Blondy Brownie and BRNS; and reinterpret the repertoire of Paul-Alain Leclerc alias…
Un héritage empoisonné
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsSince in less than a century, we have forgotten the danger, however real, of the mislaid ordnance of the First World War, how can we believe that our memories will allow future generations to maintain vigilance over nuclear waste that will remain lethal for millennia ?
Meu amigo Fela
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsMy Friend Fela provides a new perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, in order to counter the most often portrayed narrative of Fela “as an eccentric African pop idol of the ghetto”, according to director Joel Zito Araújo. The complexity of Fela’s life is unravelled through the eyes and conversations of his close friend…
Oleg
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsOleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Polish criminal Andrzej.
Animus Animalis (istorija apie žmones, žvėris ir daiktus)
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsThe documentary ANIMUS ANIMALIS immerses us into the heart of animality and addresses our relationship with the living. In a world at the crossroads of reality and artifice, a taxidermist, a livestock farmer and a museum employee bring together life and death. A first film, carved with a scalpel, as precise as a biology manual…
Masterclass David Oelhoffen & Frédéric Vercheval
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsHow can one pay more attention to the role of music? How can music be integrated into a project and what about the relationship between director and composer? Director David Oelhoffen and director and composer Frédéric Vercheval talk about their projects and experiences. David Oelhoffen In 1996, David Oelhoffen began writing and directing short films,…
AREN’T YOU HAPPY?
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsThrough her melancholy heroine’s quest for meaning, Susan Heinrich deconstructs the “male gaze” with long philosophical tirades, comical meetings and hyper-dramatized pop visuals. Cult and provocative, this first film outlines a new, post-modern and joyfully desperate feminist archetype.
Oleg
Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, BrusselsOleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Polish criminal Andrzej.
Ray and Liz
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsOn the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humour, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of experience of growing up in a…
Zombi Child
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsHaiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale…
Avant l’Aurore
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsGentle and crude, AVANT L’AURORE outlines a meeting between drag prostitute Mirinda and mute child Panna in a crumbling Cambodian landscape haunted by its Khmer past. A deeply moving and infinitely delicate portrait-film that is disturbing and fascinating, just like Mirinda who is embodied by the breathtaking David d’Ingéo.
Vernon Subutex
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsVernon Subutex, an unemployed record store clerk and mythical figure of the rock scene of the 90’s finds himself on the street. As he disappears into the fabric of the city, he becomes the most sought after man in Paris. The series is adapted from the novels Vernon Subutex Volumes 1 and 2, written by…
Répertoire des villes disparues
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn Irénée-les-Neiges, a small, isolated town with a population of 215, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for the Dubé family as well as for Mayor Smallwood and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning,…
Apollo 13
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsNASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Drømme i København
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsCopenhagen Dreams is director Max Kestner’s documentary film portrait of Denmark’s capital as well as a tribute to Johann Johannsson. It is a film about the physical surroundings that shape our everyday lives. About the buildings we wake up in, the front doors we walk out of and the streets we cross.
Century of Smoke
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsLaosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
Wayne’s World
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsWayne and Garth have transformed a basement into a TV studio and broadcast a music show nightly on local cable. An up-and-coming TV producer likes their style and decides to give them their first big break.
Sophia Antipolis
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn a strange landscape somewhere between forests, mountains and the Mediterranean, fringe filmmaker Vernier shoots men and women searching for meaning and social ties. Following a sophisticated yet clear narrative, this exceptional film leads us into the darkness of our times under a sun that sets upside down.
Jeunesse Sauvage
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsCharismatic, Raphaël is the leader of a gang of young street robbers. Longing to turn his own life around, he takes care of his father and unwittingly opens himself to love. But after an accidental murder, Raphaël’s life changes forever.
Century of smoke
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsLaosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
Répertoire des villes disparues
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn Irénée-les-Neiges, a small, isolated town with a population of 215, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on, for the Dubé family as well as for Mayor Smallwood and a handful of others, time seems to lose all meaning,…
MERCURIALES
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsMercury is the fastest, hottest and coldest planet. On one side it is always night, on the other it is always day. You would feel very light there, because of its weak gravity. The sky is uniformly black and there is no air. This story takes place in the distant past, in a violent time.…
Pour vivre heureux
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsAmel and Mashir, two young people living in Brussels, love each other secretly. Neither their parents, nor their friends can suspect their relationship, let alone their project to spend the summer together in London. Their world falls apart when Mashir's family decides to marry him with his cousin Noor, who is also Amel's friend. How…
Good Favour
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsSecluded deep in the forests of Central Europe, a strictly devout Christian community is suffering a crisis of faith following a series of unsettling incidents and a devastating loss. When a young man stumbles onto their compound bearing scars of trauma, the community welcomes him in and nurses him back to health. He is slowly…
ANDORRE
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsA shopping centre in the middle of the mountains, pyramids of products, a glass tower dedicated to skincare, Andorra entices you with the promises of modern happiness. When the night falls, however, the streets fall silent and Andorra only shines for itself. Andorre is a short film by Virgil Vernier with a soundtrack by James…
Deslembro
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsJoana grew up in Paris surrounded by rock music and literature. But in 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, Joana moves back to the country she barely remembers, overnight and against her will. In Rio, she recovers pieces of memories from a fragmented childhood and a missing father. Not everything is real, not everything…
Koko-Di Koko-Da
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsGrieving couple Tobias and Elin go camping in the woods where they are forced to relive the same nightmare again and again. For his second film, J. Nyholm borrows from the codes of the survival genre and offers a grotesque and absurd farce on human condition. An explosive combination of psychological realism, animation and macabre…
La chèvre
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsPresident Bens' daughter has disappeared somewhere in South America. Campana, a private detective, comes back empty handed from an extensive search of the continent. There is only one thing left for Bens to do: send François Perrin, a man as jinxed as his daughter, to find her! So the unlikely pair starts off on their…
Deslembro
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsJoana grew up in Paris surrounded by rock music and literature. But in 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, Joana moves back to the country she barely remembers, overnight and against her will. In Rio, she recovers pieces of memories from a fragmented childhood and a missing father. Not everything is real, not everything…
Good Favour
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsSecluded deep in the forests of Central Europe, a strictly devout Christian community is suffering a crisis of faith following a series of unsettling incidents and a devastating loss. When a young man stumbles onto their compound bearing scars of trauma, the community welcomes him in and nurses him back to health. He is slowly…
Avant l’Aurore
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsGentle and crude, AVANT L’AURORE outlines a meeting between drag prostitute Mirinda and mute child Panna in a crumbling Cambodian landscape haunted by its Khmer past. A deeply moving and infinitely delicate portrait-film that is disturbing and fascinating, just like Mirinda who is embodied by the breathtaking David d’Ingéo.
Visions – Une immersion théâtrale dans les rituels du peuple Lobi
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels10 young actors from Burkina Faso and Belgium are united around a proces of artistic creation in Burkina Faso, immersed in the ancestral rituals of the Lobi People. An exploratory approach from the XK company, which confronts them with their identity and their view of the world.
Haut les filles !
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsWhat if rock did not begin with Elvis Presley, but with Edith Piaf? It is the core question in “Haut les filles”. The documentary tells the story of the genre from the perspective of women in the 60s right up until the present day. From Brigitte Fontaine and Françoise Hardy to Jehnny Beth and Christine…
GOD EXISTS HER NAME IS PETRUNYA
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsIn Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before…
Escapada
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsA family that has grown apart meets in Spain to divide their inheritance: a dilapidated house surrounded by vineyards. Gustave, a truck driver on the verge of bankruptcy; Jules, the anarchist who lives in a commune, and Lou, who is trying to balance her brothers and her ambitions. Each has a different view of the…
Sophia Antipolis
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn a strange landscape somewhere between forests, mountains and the Mediterranean, fringe filmmaker Vernier shoots men and women searching for meaning and social ties. Following a sophisticated yet clear narrative, this exceptional film leads us into the darkness of our times under a sun that sets upside down.
Big Little Lies – Season 2
BOZAR Rue Ravenstein 23, BrusselsThe return of Big Little Lies will explore the malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode and the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom.
King of New York
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsAfter completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn't going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition,…
Jeunesse Sauvage
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsCharismatic, Raphaël is the leader of a gang of young street robbers. Longing to turn his own life around, he takes care of his father and unwittingly opens himself to love. But after an accidental murder, Raphaël’s life changes forever.
Groundhog Day
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsA weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses…
Virtual Reality : Festival Experience
The Experience Festival is taking place for the fourth time and is the only festival in Brussels and Belgium that focuses entirely on virtual reality. From 26 June to 29 June, the Experience Festival will take place at UGC De Brouckère and Cinema Palace. During one hour, visitors can enjoy a unique festival experience thanks…
La Flor Part. 3
Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, BrusselsIt starts with a brilliant exercise in self-parodying metafiction and evolves into something completely different. Followed by a remake of Jean Renoir’s Partie de campagne and the only story that starts in the middle and has an ending: the 19th-century diary of a woman kidnapped for years by Indians. An addictive viewing experience.
Koko-Di Koko-Da
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsGrieving couple Tobias and Elin go camping in the woods where they are forced to relive the same nightmare again and again. For his second film, J. Nyholm borrows from the codes of the survival genre and offers a grotesque and absurd farce on human condition. An explosive combination of psychological realism, animation and macabre…
GOD EXISTS HER NAME IS PETRUNYA
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsIn Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before…
Binti
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsTwelve-year-old Binti dreams of making a name for herself as a vlogger and becoming a star like her idol Tatyana. But when they risk being deported as illegal aliens in a police raid, she and her father are forced to go on the run. Binti meets Elias and they become friends. While Binti uses her…
Nos batailles
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsOlivier scrambles within his company to fight against injustices. Suddenly, when his wife, Laura, leaves the family home, he needs to reconcile the education of their children, family life and his profesional activity. In front of his new responsibilities, he struggles to find a new balance, because Laura is not coming back.
Maman a tort
Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, BrusselsDo we really know our parent? Anouk, 14, brutally discovers a new side to our mother, when she interns at the insurance company where her mother works. An immersive week in the adult corporate world, with its little arrangements and its important cowardice; which will sceal the fate of the young girl. Between initiation, flaws…
Les Plus Belles Années d’une vie
UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, BrusselsThey knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film, revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn't able…
DJ Set – Blondy Brownie
BRIFF Village Place De Brouckère, BrusselsTo (almost) close the second edition of the Brussels International Film Festival, we look forward to see you on Saturday 29 June at the BRIFF Village, Place de Brouckère! Blondy Brownie, a 100% feminine duo, are back in full force for a festive and enchanting dj set!