In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion Read More »
Tag Archives: Belgium
From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom (1960) Paul Meyer, Brighella, Giuseppe Cerqua, Luigi Favotto
What was supposed to be a documentary to show the progressive nature of Belgium in regards to its immigration policy Read More »
Haut les coeurs! (1999) Sólveig Anspach, Karin Viard, Laurent Lucas, Julien Cottereau
A young woman, Emma, decides to get pregnant without her boyfriend’s consent. Read More »
Dreaming Film (2010) Eric Pauwels
Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwles’ meditation on dream, travel and film. Read More »
The Living World (2003) Eugène Green, Christelle Prot, Alexis Loret, Adrien Michaux
An ogre keeps in his castle two children, whom he intends to eat. Read More »
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Paul Cox, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, David Wenham, Jan Kleinejan
The true story of the 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers. Read More »
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) Agnès Varda, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Read More »
The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) Philip Ridley, Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen
After the death of his strictly religious parents, forlorn young Darkly gets lost in the woods. Read More »
Anchoress (1993) Chris Newby, Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary Read More »
The Misfortunates (2009) Felix van Groeningen, Kenneth Vanbaeden, Valentijn Dhaenens, Koen De Graeve, Wouter Hendrickx
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Read More »
The Ax (2005) Costa-Gavras, José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Monfils
Bruno Davert, a chemist working for a paper company, is fired. Read More »
Symptoms (1974) José Ramón Larraz, Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. Read More »
Appointment in Bray (1971) André Delvaux, Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. Read More »
Holy Money (2009) Maxime Alexandre, Aaron Stanford, Joaquim de Almeida, Ben Gazzara
Anthony’s family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident Read More »
Chloé (1996) Dennis Berry, Anna Karina, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Claude Adelin
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Read More »