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Film Fest Gent has added Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, and Mark Rylance to its Official Competition, which now has a line-up of 13 features in total. Bones and All had its world premiere in Venice, where Guadagnino won the Silver Lion for best director and Taylor Russell the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor.

We are very proud to announce the closing film for Film Fest Gent 2022: She Said by Maria Schrader closes Film Fest Gent 2022. The film 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 a Movement. The official closing film on 21 October will be preceded by a closing ceremony announcing the winners of the Grand Prix for Best Film and the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack or Sound Design.

Critically acclaimed French director Mia Hansen-Løve will personally introduce her latest film Un beau matin to Ghent audiences on Saturday 22 October at Film Fest Gent. A few days earlier, on 18 October, Film Fest Gent will take Un beau matin to theatres all over Flanders for the monthly FFG On Tour.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of each day.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of each day.

French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, best known for her game-changing historical drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has received a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Gent on Wednesday 12 October. She was handed the award by Lukas Dhont, who kicked off the festival the day before with his sophomore feature Close. Before the award ceremony, the two filmmakers talked in depth about each other’s oeuvre.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of each day.

During the Young Critics Workshop (in collaboration with Cinea and the online film magazine photogénie) at Film Fest Gent, five aspiring film critics (ages between 18 and 26) from Belgium and from abroad write reviews and essays on our festival films.

Red carpets, Q&A and countless other events follow each other quickly at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you can relive the festival with the best pictures of each day.

Raoul Servais, the absolute pioneer of Belgian animation film, was honoured on Saturday 15 October by Film Fest Gent with a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, a prize that recognises the Ostend-born and -based filmmaker's rich and groundbreaking oeuvre. Servais received the award after the premiere of his latest film, Der lange Kerl.