Film Fest Gent Talkies
Which films keep popping into your head and won't let you go? During FFG Talkies, five guests talk about films that held a special place in their hearts. Season 2025 has begun already - you can relisten to these discussions on your favourite podcast platform - but there are still more Talkies on the agenda, so stay tuned!
Only available in Dutch.
2025 Talkies
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Programme
- Ish Aït Hamou | 30.01 | 19:30
- Christina Vandekerckhove | 27.02 | 19:30
- Ruth Becquart | 27.03 | 19:30
- Tim Mielants | 24.04 | 19:30
- Isolde Lasoen | 05.06 | 19:30
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Location
De Krook (Miriam Makebaplein 1, Ghent)
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Tickets?
Tickets for the Talkies are always free, but registering is required. The booking link can always be found at each Talkie on this page.
Ish Aït Hamou | 30 January
Whether you know him as a novelist, theatre maker, choreographer, jury member of So You Think You Can Dance or filmmaker, you know Ish Aït Hamou as a versatile artist with a heart for stories. Together with his brother Monir, he presented their first feature film at the 51st edition of Film Fest Gent: BXL, an intimate portrait of two searching, Brussels-based youngsters inspired by their own youth in the Belgian capital. Several premieres and standing ovations at FFG later, the film received the Audience Award. According to the directing duo, BXL is a story that ‘did not emerge from issues, but from dreams’.
Christina Vandekerckhove | 27 February
Interested in homegrown talent from Ghent? Look no further than filmmaker Christina Vandekerckhove. In 2017, she won the Audience Award at Film Fest Gent with her feature debut Rabot, a moving documentary in which Vandekerckhove strings together the lives of several residents of three rundown Ghent social housing towers into a haunting portrait. She continued this social commitment and her feeling for visual poetry in her fiction work. She presented her first long fiction film at FFG in October 2024. Milano, the poignant story about a father and his deaf son, achieved enormous success with festival audiences and was received in the press as an emotional hit that shows people we don't usually see on screen.
Ruth Becquart | 27 March
Ruth Becquart has been everywhere the last couple of months, whether it's on the big and small screen, or behind the scenes. Together with Leonardo van Dijl, she wrote the screenplay for his debut film and our Belgian Oscar entry Julie Keeps Quiet, a therapeutic portrait of a big tennis promise who decides to remain silent when her coach becomes discredited. Becquart played the role of Julie's mother and presented the intimate drama at Film Fest Gent, where she also starred in two other productions. The actress, also starred in BXL, the debut of brothers Ish and Monir Ait Hamou, and the book adaptation of Een schitterend gebrek.
Tim Mielants | 24 April
When Oscar winner Cillian Murphy calls you a friend and top director, you must be doing something right. Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants has been building an impressive CV in recent years. He has even made a name for himself beyond our country's borders. Mielants directed episodes of series such as The Terror and Legion and the entire third season of the British TV series Peaky Blinders (2016), where he was on set with Murphy for the first time. Following the success of The Patrick (2019) and WIL (2023), Mielants and Murphy teamed up again for the Irish drama Small Things Like These, the opening film of FFG2024. The duo's third collaboration, the Max Porter film adaptation Steve, is currently in post-production.
Isolde Lasoen | 5 June
Isolde Lasoen has been a drummer with DAAN for over 20 years, but she is also an energetic and eclectic singer-songwriter and frontwoman under her own name, smoothly combining drums, vibraphone and her unique voice to create ambitious music. In 2017, she released her first album Cartes Postales. This was followed in 2023 by Oh Dear, a record that - like Lasoen herself - cannot be pushed into one style box. Her tracks have a cinematic atmosphere that make you dream away to Morricone, Mancini, François de Roubaix or early John Barry or other iconic or obscure film composers. In 2021, for VRT CANVAS, she delved into the lives of six female Belgian artists for the documentary series She's lost in music.