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Festivals / Belgium


296 articles available in total starting from 19/07/2002. Last article published on 11/03/2019.

Van Rompaey’s Lena looks for love

Unlikely love affairs, naturalism and portraits of women clearly seem to be the major sources of inspiration in the early career of Belgian director Christophe Van Rompaey. After Moscow, Belgium,...  

16/12/2011 | Festivals | France/Netherlands/Belgium

Christmas comes early at the Be Film Festival

Since 2005, the team at the Brussels Short Film Festival has been making the most of the festive period to celebrate national cinema with the Be Film Festival. So Christmas has come early for...  

08/12/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

Miles from Anywhere triumphs at Amiens

There was triumph on Friday, November 18 for Miles from Anywhere, the debut feature by Pierre Duculot (see interview), at the Amiens International Film Festival. The film won over both the...  

21/11/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

Francophone fare in all its forms at Namur’s FIFF

The 26th Namur International Francophone Film Festival (FIFF), which will run from September 30-October 7, yesterday unveiled its programme. As every year, the biggest Walloon festival is offering...  

22/09/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

Hasta la Vista!, North Sea, Texas scoop awards at Montreal

When the Montreal World Film Festival closed yesterday, the announcement of the results confirmed the old saying “these things come in threes”. An unusual sort of microclimate seems to have...  

29/08/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

Rich selection of Belgian flicks in Toronto line-up

The festival news keeps coming for Belgian cinema: after the Venice and Montreal selections came the turn of the Toronto International Film Festival to announce its rich line-up, which also gives...  

24/08/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

Belgian titles out in force at Montreal World Film Fest

The 35th Montreal World Film Festival will run from August 18-28. Belgium will be strongly represented, with no fewer than six majority features and two co-productions in the programme. In world...  

16/08/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

John Shank, an American in Venice

With the first Venice announcements comes the first Belgian selection! In the Venice Days section, which will run from August 31-September 10 (see news), John Shank’s Last Winter will compete for...  

27/07/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

Brussels fest crowns Innocent Saturday

The prize list at the 9th Brussels Film Festival had some surprises in store. The jury, headed by Jacques Weber, opted for a harsh, dense, stifling film weighed down by the inevitable. The setting...  

30/06/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

In search of the lost audience: Belgian cinema and its public

On Monday June 27, as a preview to the French Community’s soirée in Brussels, the Brussels Film Festivalorganised a conference on the challenges facing Belgian cinema, on the occasion of the...  

28/06/2011 | Festivals | Belgium

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