Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director’s parents Read More »
Tag Archives: Belgium
The Gate of Sun / Bab el shams (2004) Yusri Nasrullah, Hiam Abbass, Fadi Abi Samra, Hussein Abou Seada
Yousry Nasrallah’s powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession Read More »
Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989) Chantal Akerman, Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Kirk Baltz
The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor. Read More »
Peace Over the Fields / Paix sur les champs (1970) Jacques Boigelot, Christian Barbier, Georges Poujouly, Claire Wauthion
Peace in the Fields takes place around 1925. Stanne a wealthy Flemish farmer Read More »
Image (2014) Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Mounir Ait Hamou, Sanâa Alaoui, Gene Bervoets
When Eva, a young journalist, films a documentary about the mean streets in Brussels Read More »
The Dead Bruges / Brugge, die stille (1981) Roland Verhavert, Idwig Stephane, Magda Lesage, Chris Boni
Hugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. Read More »
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) Arthur Harari
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda Read More »
Violet (2014) Bas Devos, Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Read More »
Barracuda (1997) Philippe Haïm, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet, Claire Keim
A mad but cunning old man imprisons a young man in his apartment to be his friend. Read More »
Don’t Look Back / Ne te retourne pas (2009) Marina de Van, Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano
Jeanne, a writer, married with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Read More »