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Jean
Jean, Jolke Van Aerde,

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À chacun son cinéma
Jean-Noël Gobron, 1986

Forty years after its original release, this documentary, built around a series of one-on-one interviews with amateur and professional actors, reflects on the fascination the acting profession exerts on people from all walks of life and explores what drives the desire to bring someone else's imagination to life. It is also a rich archival document, preserving a moment in the history of cinema and in the acting profession's understanding of itself.

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Jean
Jolke Van Aerde, 2026

For eight years, Jolke Van Aerde follows Jean from childhood through his teenage years. As he tries to find his own path within the education system, his concerns about the future grow too. Van Aerde's debut feature will have its world premiere in the Official Competition of Film Fest Gent as the only Belgian film.

SCREENINGS

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Unique Belgian classics.
On a big screen near you.

2026 PROGRAMME

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→ Le chantier des gosses
→ Le chantier des gosses
Archipel 19, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
+ With actor Freddy Piette
→ Hair, Paper, Water...
Maison de la création, Laeken
+ Q&A with Nicolas Graux & Trương Minh Quý
→ Hair, Paper, Water...
→ Hair, Paper, Water...
CC Bruegel | St1ckyR1ce, Brussels
+ Q&A with Trương Minh Quý & Nicolas Graux
→ Hair, Paper, Water...
→ Rosas danst Rosas
→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
Daens_Thumb
Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

Cultuurcentrum Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist
+ Q&A with Stijn Coninx
→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

De Cinema, Antwerp
+ SCHOENAERTS/DECLEIR retrospective
→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
Daens_Thumb
Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
Daens_Thumb
Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Daens
Daens_Thumb
Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

→ Grands travaux
→ Echo
UC Louvain | Auditoire OM10, Brussels
+ Academic screening open to the public
→ Branden
→ Branden
→ Branden
→ Apple Cider Vinegar
Cinema RITCS, Brussels
+ Q&A with Sofie Benoot
→ Jean
Jean

Eight years in the life of Jean, a teenager from Antwerp who, having changed schools repeatedly while growing up, tries to find his place within the education system. As he gets older, his need for change grows. A mosaic-like portrait of a young identity in formation.

Kinepolis Gent | Film Fest Gent, Ghent
+ In the presence of cast and crew
→ Jean
Jean

Eight years in the life of Jean, a teenager from Antwerp who, having changed schools repeatedly while growing up, tries to find his place within the education system. As he gets older, his need for change grows. A mosaic-like portrait of a young identity in formation.

Kinepolis Gent | Film Fest Gent, Ghent
+ Q&A with Jean Ciesielski and Jolke Van Aerde
→ Jean
Jean

Eight years in the life of Jean, a teenager from Antwerp who, having changed schools repeatedly while growing up, tries to find his place within the education system. As he gets older, his need for change grows. A mosaic-like portrait of a young identity in formation.

→ Pink Ulysses
→ Pink Ulysses
In cinemas
→ Restless Stones
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In October 2015, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and insurgent youth declared autonomy in key cities of Northern Kurdistan, triggering brutal repression by the Turkish army. Ten years later, Restless Stones revisits raw footage of those moments, in a daunting attempt to make sense of the violence and its enduring trauma.

Bozar, Brussels
+ Q&A with Ellen Vermeulen
→ Globes
Sport- en Cultuurcentrum Hof ter Straeten | Natuurpunt Jabbeke, Jabbeke
+ Q&A with Nina de Vroome, in collaboration with Velt Jabbeke (ecological gardening) and the bee work group of Jabbeke

Added Online

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Thumb Claire's Camera

While at the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee, a young film sales assistant, is abruptly fired by her boss due to unspecified “dishonesty”. When she meets Claire, a teacher with a Polaroid camera that may hold unusual powers, the two try to make sense of Manhee’s firing.

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Thumb Right Now, Wrong Then

Film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day too early and meets young painter Yoon Heejung. They spend the day visiting her studio, drinking soju and meeting her friends, in a fragile game of attraction, until things turn sour. And then everything starts again.

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Thumb The Day He Arrives

A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn’t show up, he wanders the city for three days, drinking and meeting a series of women, each day playing out like a variation of the last.

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Thumb Walk Up

Accompanied by his daughter, film director Byungsoo visits an old friend in her four-storey building. After a phone call pulls Byungsoo away, he returns to the same place – only now it is a different time, and a higher floor.

Film
Branden (Lisette Ma Neza, 2024)

A collective poem about the burning of home countries, about the fire and the smoke of armed conflict. A conversation with five women from different diasporas: about leaving… and (never) arriving. An ode to the displaced woman.

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Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

Film
Apple Cider Vinegar (Sofie Benoot, 2024)

A fictitious nature documentary narrator takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian stone masons, passionate British geologists and people living on the lava fields of Fogo.​ A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions.

Film
Bamssi (Mourad Ben Amor)

Images with the urgency of an Instagram story create a long-distance dialogue between family members across a sea: Mourad and Fairuz, Tunisia and abroad. A film about waiting, dangerous desires, and dreams.

Collection
La trilogie de la cabane

Three highly original, lovingly and playfully crafted films spanning over fifteen years. Blending documentary and fiction, these films, like the blue garden cabin that gives the trilogy its title, form an intimate oeuvre as well as a fertile space of memory and imagination.

Film
Thumb A chacun son cinéma

Through interviews with amateur and experienced actors, this documentary delves into the acting profession and the fascination it holds for people across backgrounds and generations. What mysterious alchemy fuels the passion for bringing someone else’s imagination to life?

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Thumb Mercedes comme papillon

On the eve of a Roma wedding in France, a group of women gathers to talk about their dreams, traditions, and desires of freedom and self-expression. This intimate documentary moves to the rhythms of flamenco, while it explores questions of heritage, identity, and emancipation.

Collection
Hong Sangsoo Collection

Hong Sangsoo is one of the most acclaimed, prolific and inventive auteurs in contemporary cinema. This collection offers a unique insight into his oeuvre, which playfully explores variations on recurring narrative threads, blending humour with profound explorations of everyday life, psychology, and metaphysics.

Soon Online ↑Binnenkort online ↑Bientôt en ligne ↑

Soon Online

Film
Thumb An Image
An Image
Harun Farocki,
Film
Thumb Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Harun Farocki,
Film
Kouté Vwa
Kouté Vwa
Maxime Jean-Baptiste,
Film
Thumb Le 15/8
Le 15/8
Chantal Akerman, Samy Szlingerbaum,
Film
Thumb The Creators of Shopping Worlds
The Creators of Shopping Worlds
Harun Farocki,
Film
Thumb The Expression of Hands
The Expression of Hands
Harun Farocki,
Film
Thumb Inextinguishable fire
The Inextinguishable Fire
Harun Farocki,
Film
Thumb Videograms of a Revolution
Videograms of a Revolution
Harun Farocki,
Film
Thumb Workers Leaving the Factory
Workers Leaving the Factory
Harun Farocki,