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Masterclass Michel Hazanavicius

UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels

Michael 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…

Di Jiu Tian Chang

Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, Brussels

So 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, Brussels

He 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…

Yves

Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, Brussels

Budding 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, Brussels

Sicilian 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…

Cavale

UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels

Kathy, 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, Brussels

With 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

UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels

Based 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…

Talk with Emilie Dequenne

Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, Brussels

Emilie 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, Brussels

A 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, Brussels

Eryk 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.…

PARWARESHGAH

Flagey Place Sainte-Croix, Brussels

In 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…

AREN’T YOU HAPPY?

Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, Brussels

Through 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, Brussels

A 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…

Ray and Liz

UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels

On 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…

Oleg

Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, Brussels

Oleg, 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.…

Masterclass David Oelhoffen & Frédéric Vercheval

Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, Brussels

How 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…

Zombi Child

Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, Brussels

Haiti, 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…

Century of smoke

Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, Brussels

Laosan, 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, Brussels

In 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.…

Deslembro

Galeries Galerie de la Reine 26, Brussels

Joana 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, Brussels

Secluded 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, Brussels

Gentle 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…

Sophia Antipolis

UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels

In 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,…

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…

Koko-Di Koko-Da

Palace Boulevard Anspach 85, Brussels

Grieving 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, Brussels

In 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…

Les Plus Belles Années d’une vie

UGC De Brouckère Place De Brouckère 38, Brussels

They 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, Brussels

To (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…

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