Festival films 49th edition in Belgian theatres

In the true story Small, Slow But Steady, deaf-born boxer Keiko Ogasawara fights for recognition and her boxing community in Tokyo. As if Yasujirō Ozu, the Japanese master of serenity and the everyday, were directing the American sports drama Million Dollar Baby ...

For his debut The Quiet Girl, Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad moulds a short story by Caire Keegan into a tender coming-of-age film.

Based on short stories by Murakami, this delightfully surreal animated film by composer-filmmaker Pierre Földes manages to perfectly capture the author's existentialism and humour.

In their Cannes award-winning directorial debut War Pony, Gina Gammell and Riley Keough take an honest and tender look at the hard lives of two young Native Americans.

A Japanese classic with a British bowler hat. Director Oliver Hermanus (Skoonheid, Moffie) remakes Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, telling the story of an ageing civil servant fighting in his final days for a small victory over the bureaucracy of existence.

In the war film Devotion, J.D. Dillard shows the forgotten Korean War (1950 - 1953) through the eyes of a black American pilot and his wingman.

In Cow, Andrea Arnold not only paints an intimate close-up of hows cows are being completly drained, she also catches a glimp of how they look at the world.

Quentin Dupieux proves once again that you don't need a lot of time, money or a complex story to make a unique, entertaining film. His latest is a parody within a parody starring a kitschy superhero team.

In the profound human comedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, filmmaker Sophie Hyde and actress Emma Thompson explore the mystery of female pleasure.

After 3 Days in Quiberon, about a deteriorating Romy Schneider, the French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef again refuses to shy away from uncomfortable questions and the confrontation with death. With More Than Ever, she tells the story of a dying young woman, starring Vicky Krieps ...

Documentary filmmaker Alice Diop makes her fiction debut with Saint Omer. By far the most exciting courtroom drama in years.

Ten years after Ulrich Seidl zoomed in on a seaside resort in Kenya with Paradies: Liebe, the Austrian filmmaker focuses on an Italian resort in Rimini.

John le Carré is never far away in this political thriller about a venerable Islamic institution in Cairo where a young student loses his innocence with the snap of a finger. Boy from Heaven won the award for Best Screenplay in Cannes.

A testament to the power of investigative journalism, She Said is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett and the New York Times bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite ...

Just before the iconic Chelsea Hotel gets a thorough facelift, documentary makers Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt delve into the past of this symbol of sixties counterculture.

The international press proclaimed Leila's Brothers the best film of Cannes 2022. Through the ups and downs of a family, director Saeed Roustayi paints a staggering portrait of Iranian society.

In her feature debut Rodéo, Lola Quivoron follows a young woman who makes many in the Parisian motorcross scene bite the dust.

A singing crocodile that loves baths and caviar proves to be a delightful protagonist in this warm family film with music by the duo that wrote the songs for La La Land and The Greatest Showman.