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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.

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.

Film producer Dirk Impens is this year's laureate of the Jo Röpcke Award, named after the former BRT film journalist. The magazine Knack Focus presents this annually during Film Fest Ghent to "someone who has made himself deserving for Flemish film".

It was an emotional and moving premiere of Holy Spider on Saturday night at Film Fest Gent. During the Q&A afterwards, lead actor Zar Amir-Ebrahimi condemned the violent repression of the Iranian people: "This is about more than the hijab, this is about freedom", she said. The festival is deeply concerned about the violent response of of the Iranian authorities and supports Iranian citizens who are denied fundamental rights.

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.

On 16 October, during the Short Film Award Ceremony at the end of the short film weekend of the 49th Film Fest Gent, the International Short Film Jury announced the winners. Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra received the Award for Best International Short. In the Competition for Belgian Student Shorts, Finn's Heel by Cato Kusters was crowned Best Belgian Student Short. The THE PACK Audience for Best Belgian Student Short, as voted by the festival audience, went to Merci pour votre patience! by Simon van der Zande.

Plenty of red carpets, Q&As and events at Film Fest Gent 2022. On this page you'll find the best pictures of every 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.