Belgium

  • Bas Devos – Here (2023)

    Bas Devos2021-2030BelgiumDrama
    Here (2023)
    Here (2023)

    Set in Brussels, the film revolves around a potential love story between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese doctorate student of moss, who cross paths just before the former is about to move back home.Read More »

  • Fabrice du Welz – Inexorable (2021)

    Fabrice Du Welz2021-2030BelgiumThriller
    Inexorable (2021)
    Inexorable (2021)

    The latest from Fabrice du Welz follows a bestselling novelist who moves into an eerie old mansion in search of inspiration.Read More »

  • Bas Devos – Ghost Tropic (2019) (HD)

    2011-2020Bas DevosBelgiumDrama
    Ghost Tropic (2019) (HD)
    Ghost Tropic (2019) (HD)

    Synopsis
    After a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.Read More »

  • Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah – Rebel (2022)

    Adil El Arbi2021-2030ActionBelgiumBilall FallahDrama
    Rebel (2022)
    Rebel (2022)

    A portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy’s future.Read More »

  • Eddie Lateste – Tintin et le temple du soleil aka Tintin and the Temple of the Sun aka Seven Crystal Balls and the Prisoners of the Sun (1969)

    1961-1970AnimationBelgiumEddie Lateste
    Tintin et le temple du soleil (1969)
    Tintin et le temple du soleil (1969)

    Synopsis from Imdb:
    Tintin travels to Peru to rescue some archaeologists from an old Inca curse.

    Wikipedia:
    Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (original title Tintin et le temple du soleil) is a 1969 animated film produced by Belvision Studios. A co-production between Belgium, France and Switzerland, it is an adaptation of Hergé’s two-part Tintin adventure The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.
    Coming after the success of the Belvision cartoon series, Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin, there was a lot of publicity for the movie (which was the first of two animated films, the second being 1972’s Tintin and the Lake of Sharks).Read More »

  • Ursula Meier – La ligne AKA The Line (2022)

    Ursula Meier2021-2030BelgiumDrama
    La ligne (2022)
    La ligne (2022)

    Margaret is charged with a three-month restraining order for having hit her mother. But the 100 meters that now separate her from her home only exacerbate Margaret’s desire to come closer to her family.Read More »

  • Luc de Heusch – Dotremont-les-logogrammes AKA Dotremont – the Logograms (1972)

    Luc de Heusch1971-1980BelgiumDocumentaryShort Film
    Dotremont les logogrammes (1972)
    Dotremont les logogrammes (1972)

    From DVD booklet:
    Right from the opening credits we come into contact with logograms, starting with the place where this desire to write was fantastically formed, inspired by the love Dotremont has for Gloria, the woman of his life for whom he invented this new poetic form. Throughout the film the camera records the position of the body, the hands, the progress of the ink, the birth of his visual poems, right up to the burning that awaits those that are not perfect. With the fictional reconstruction of a morning’s work, ‘Pension pluie de roses, Tervueren, Belgique’, the film also gives an account of a morning like any other, one that summarises all of them: the confinement of an ill man, connected to the world by a huge amount of correspondence, infinite telephone calls, an accumulation of papers, books, souvenirs from travels, with Lapland, a mythical place, ever present. A Lapp song, Dotremont’s gravelly voice, that of a correspondent, Gloria maybe, emphasize what the image shows, the creative effort during ‘Proust-like’ declining years that are confined and feverish.Read More »

  • Zeno Graton – Le Paradis AKA The Lost Boys (2023)

    2021-2030BelgiumDramaQueer Cinema(s)Zeno Graton
    Le Paradis (2023)
    Le Paradis (2023)

    In a youth correctional facility, 17-year-old Joe is preparing for his return to society, uncertain of what life on the other side will look like. His complex feelings about his imminent freedom are further complicated by the arrival of William, his new neighbour in the cell next door. As the two grow closer through lessons on camera obscura and rap workshops, Joe’s desire to explore the outside world gives way to a new desire. This striking feature debut captures the growing passion between the two young men and the ways in which it could ultimately lead to their downfall.Read More »

  • Luc de Heusch – Michel De Ghelderode (1957)

    Documentary1951-1960BelgiumLuc de HeuschShort Film

    From DVD booklet:
    After Perséphone, his first film which he describes as “an experimental, mythological poem” and shoots under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he makes a portrait of playwright Michel de Ghelderode together with his friend Jean Raine. It introduces us to the world of a creator obsessed with and fascinated by death. If biographic references are present, they are only there in order to place the writer in the right setting: nostalgia for Bruges and Flanders, solitary wanders through a backward-looking, legendary Brussels. Ghelderode’s gravelly voice is the leitmotiv of the film, which focuses on rehearsals of his plays at the Théâtre de Poche and with the puppets of the Théâtre Royal de Toone. We accompany him into his study, a place of dreams and fantasy, full of baroque objects that define his world.Read More »

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