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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…