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For the 17th time, from 10 to 20 October 1990, the International Flanders Film Festival is organized in Ghent. This year, the emphasis lies on the films themselves, more perhaps than in the past editions. The festival’s concern has been to compile a programme of quality films from all over the world.This year’s focus is UK and Ireland, with films such as Bearskin, Vincent and Theo, Diary Of A Sane Man and Chicago Joe and the Showgirl. The opening film is Ju Dou by Zhang Yimou and Yang Feng-Liang, the closing film is Ghost by Jerry Zucker. The pre-opening film is Henry & June by Philip Kaufman. There's also a unique exhibition on 25 years of film in Flanders in the St. Pieters Abbey in Ghent.

The programmation of the 18th Film Festival of Flanders - Ghent offers an extensive scale of films and also many side events. This year will be the seventh consecutive year the International Flanders Film Festival - Ghent organizes a competition on the impact of music on film. This competition is reserved to non-musical fiction films. All films dealing with music or owing their existence to music have been brought together in other festival sections. Besides a couple of important premières, there is again the Focus on the World Cinema, and this year, a tribute to Hollywood-legend Kirk Douglas and the great films from the Zoetrope Studios. The unique character of the impact of music on film will be clear during the presentation of the Plateau Awards and the Michael Nyman concerts. The opening film is Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King, and the festival closes with Mike Nichols' Regarding Henry. We have also remained true to the international character: some 18 countries (including the Third World) are represented during this edition. This year’s focus is Spain, with films such as Cronica Del Alba, El Dorado and Los Santos Innocentes.

This 19th edition (October 7-18, 1992) sees a name change: from "Filmgebeuren van Gent" to "Film Festival of Flanders." More than 100 feature films are distributed over four festival sections and some 'firsts'. Thus, in the official competition "Impact of music on film", the prize for the "film with the best musical accompaniment" is named for the first time after Georges Delerue. A retrospective is dedicated to Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Agresti (also a member of the jury). Outside of competition, a number of important films are reserved for so-called "events": such as the gala opening with the premiere of the Flemish film Daens by Stijn Coninx: the spectacular closing night with the Disney cartoon The Beauty and the Beast and the special screenings on Youth Day, Dutch Day, Quebec Evening, Laurel and Hardy Day. But there is also a Focus on Quebec alongside the Filmspectrum which aims to show and unique panorama of world cinema with 40 titles. Finally, for the real cinephiles - in world premiere - a selection of film monuments from the Piper Heidsieck Classic Film Collection.

The 20th edition of the Flanders International Film festival - Ghent (October 14 - 23 , 1993) pays special attention to European cinema. The International Film Festival wants to emphasize the interaction between music and film as its main theme. That is why the films in competition are front and centre of the festival programme, followed by a number of non-competing films. The musical films and films about music are presented in the Filmspectrum section. The festival opens with The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) en closes with Aladdin (John Musker, Ron Clements).

The 21st edition of the Flanders International Film Festival runs from 4 until 15 October 1994. The opening film is Taxandria by Raoul Servais. Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump serves as a pre-opener. Eat Drink Man Woman by Ang Lee closes the festival. For the tenth time, the Flanders International Film Festival organises a competition devoted to the impact of music on film.

The 22nd edition of the Flanders International Film Festival (October 10-21, 1995). Brylcream Blue Berry Hill 2 by Robbe De Hert opens the festival, Underground by Emir Kusturica closes this year's festival. The pre-opening film is Waterworld by Kevin Reynolds.

The 23rd edition of the Internationaal Filmfestival van Vlaanderen - Gent runs from 8 until 19 October 1996 and opens with Shine by Australian director Scott Hicks. Mission: Impossible by Brian De Palma is the aperitif as the pre-opening.

The 24th edition of the Flanders International Film Festival runs from 7 until 18 October 1997 and opens with Chinese Box by Wayne Wang. The pre-opening film this year is The Lost World (Jurassic Park) by Steven Spielberg. The festival closes with Disney's Hercules. The focus programme zooms in on three former socialist regions: the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

The 25th anniversary edition (from 6 until 17 October 1998) of the Flanders International Film Festival opens with Hilary and Jackie, after the pre-opening with Antz. The film that closes the festival is Mulan. There is an extra festive screening of Emir Kusturica's Yugoslavian film Black Cat, White Cat in the presence of the director especially for the anniversary of the Internationaal Filmfestival.

The 26th edition of the Internationaal Filmfestival van Vlaanderen - Gent takes place from 5 to 16 October 1999 and opens with Kadosh by Amos Gitaï, in attendance of the Israeli director himself. The closing film is Random Hearts by Sydney Pollack.