The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
UGC De BrouckèreToby, a cynical advertising director, finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth –a film that changed…
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
BOZARToby, a cynical advertising director, finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth –a film that changed…
Plaire, aimer et courir vite
UGC De BrouckèreJacques is a writer and theater author in Paris. Arthur is young, studying in Rennes. They meet at the turn of a theatre and a cinema. They are living a story in a complicated period: the 90s. Love hovers with death. Tenderness fights against despair, life goes on against all odds. Cannes 2018 - Official…
Il Gattopardo
Vendôme1860 in Sicily. The aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly democratic fervour. Prince Don Fabrizio Salina tries to hold on to the past, but it appears that his glory days are waning. As the revolt gathers steam and begins to affect a real change, the aging prince must come to terms with the…
If..
BOZARIn this allegorical story, a revolution lead by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Diamantino
FlageyDiamantino, the world's premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, and the hunt for the source of genius. A remarkable first film, sailing between genres. Critics’ Week…
Le Gendarme de Saint Tropez
Mont des ArtsFollowing a promotion, Ludovic Cruchot, a strict State Trooper, leaves his provincial little village for Saint-Tropez. Nicole, his daughter, is overjoyed and doesn’t waste any time making lots of friends and causing even more problems for her father.
Lost in La Mancha
FlageySometimes reality trumps fiction. It's hard to imagine anyone taking over a screenplay that had sent so many plagues to its director — let's call him Terry Gilliam — to stop him from making the film — let's call it The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. But reality turned the planned "making of" into a…
Las Hijas de Abril
VendômeValeria is pregnant, and in love. At only 17, she has decided with her boyfriend to keep the child. Quickly overwhelmed with her new responsibilities, she calls her mother for help, April, who lives far from her and from her sister. When she arrives, April takes things in hand, and gradually replaces her daughter in…
Once Upon a Time in the West
BOZARA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. IN THE PRESENCE OF Claudia Cardinale
Looking for Eric
FlageyEric Bishop is a postman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. With two teenagers running riot in his house and the resurfacing of an old flame Eric struggles to cope. But then his mates come up with some unusual self-help techniques to kick-start his life with the imagined intervention of a mythical hero…
Vent du Nord
UGC De BrouckèreNorthern France. Hervé's factory is relocated. He is the only worker to resign himself to this, because he is pursuing another destiny: becoming a fisherman and passing on this passion to his son. Tunis suburb. The plant is relocated. Foued, unemployed, thinks he'll find a way to cure his mother, and above all, seduce the…
Picnic at Hanging Rock
BOZARPicnic at Hanging Rock is a gripping reimagining of the iconic Joan Lindsay novel that plunges viewers into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine’s Day, 1900. Exploring the event’s far-reaching impact on the students and staff of Appleyard College and its enigmatic headmistress, theories soon abound, paranoia sets in, and…
I Guappi
VendômeIn this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls…
Our Madness
FlageyBetween dreams and mythology, Our Madness follows the quest of Lucie in a phantomlike Mozambique where the ruins bear witness to man’s barbarity. A mad tale to discover for its remarkable shots, its stunning black and white, and its magnetic chants, and for João Viana’s talent in evoking the savagery of the world with poetic…
Arrhythmia
UGC De BrouckèreOleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict…
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Mont des ArtsA former assassin known as The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Boris sans Béatrice
BOZARBoris Malinovsky has achieved all of his life goals: he’s strong willed, independent, proud, and arrogant. After his wife Beatrice falls into a mysterious depression, Boris indulges in a love affair with his colleague Helga. When a mystical stranger appears Boris must confront his world view and put his achievements and his certainties to the…
The miseducation of Cameron Post
UGC De BrouckèreCameron Post looks the part of a perfect high school girl. But after she’s caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, Cameron is quickly shipped off to a conversion therapy center that treats teens “struggling with same-sex attraction.” At the facility, Cameron is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious…
L’aveugle et la Cardinale
FlageyBecause he is seduced and he knows that their meeting is not only random, and he wants to convince her, Thomas tells Julie stories where he was either the actor or the witness. They all ask the question of the links in between us that connect people to each other. But are we all capable…
Un café… l’addition
FlageyFormer star of a TV series, Julie now works in an oriental restaurant run by Mrs Gigi, who has a strong personality. She desperately waits for the next role that will take her out of anonymity again, when a client recognizes her...
Les anneaux d’or
FlageyAt the time of the independence, the owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon found themselves without work. Their wives decide to collect their gold rings to sell them and buy the boats. The film won the Silver Bear at the West Berlin Film Festival in 1958.
Claudia Cardinale la Più Bella Italiana di Tunisi
FlageyA "Sicilian of Tunisia for three generations", as she likes to repeat, Claudia Cardinale was barely 17 years old when she won the title of "the most beautiful Italian in Tunis", a distinction that paved the way for her career as an international star of the 7th art. This film is dedicated to Claudia Cardinale,…
Grease
BOZARGood girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? IN THE PRESENCE OF Randal Kleiser
Façades
GaleriesWhen her mother abandons her dementing father, Alex unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads. As she moves back in the parental house to look after her father, she starts questioning her own life. Does she want to stay with her adulterous husband? She tolerated his affairs for years, but is she really happy with him?…
Jack et la mécanique du coeur
VendômeEdinburgh 1874. Jack is born on the coldest day in the world and his heart remains frozen. Doctor Madeleine saves him by replacing his defective heart with a mechanical clock. He will survive with this magic craft provided he respects 3 laws: first, don't touch his needles, second, control his anger and, above all, never,…
Tully
UGC De BrouckèreMarlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her wealthy brother. While at first hesitant to accept the extravagance, she comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny Tully.
Shéhérazade
FlageyZachary, 17, leaves prison. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in Marseille’s blue collar neighborhoods. That’s where he meets Sheherazade…With virtuosity, Jean-Bernard Marlin brings us a contemporary coming of age love story without pathos or moralizing all while avoiding the trap of the pseudorealist documentary. A first film, shot with non professional actors, which…
Our Madness
BOZARBetween dreams and mythology, Our Madness follows the quest of Lucie in a phantomlike Mozambique where the ruins bear witness to man’s barbarity. A mad tale to discover for its remarkable shots, its stunning black and white, and its magnetic chants, and for João Viana’s talent in evoking the savagery of the world with poetic…
Las Hijas de Abril
GaleriesValeria is pregnant, and in love. At only 17, she has decided with her boyfriend to keep the child. Quickly overwhelmed with her new responsibilities, she calls her mother for help, April, who lives far from her and from her sister. When she arrives, April takes things in hand, and gradually replaces her daughter in…
Cartouche
VendômeCartouche is a highwayman who travels around France stealing from the rich to give to the poor, accompanied by his band of thieves and the beautiful Vénus. Until, that is, the day he meets the wife of his enemy…
La Grand-Messe
PalaceThe Tour de France. Faithful followers converging on a mountaintop, A stage of the legendary bicycle race is coming, Throngs of RVs 'round the bend: The ritual gathering has begun. IN THE PRESENCE OF Méryl Fortunat-Rossi Valéry Rosier
Heimebane
BOZARA football coach leaves her successful women’s football team to become the first female coach of a Norwegian premier league men’s team. She wages a fight against ingrained bias and is out to prove that women are every bit as good as men.
Good Manners
BOZARClara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans. Filmfestival Locarno 2017 Special International Jury Prize Gerardmer Fantasy Film Festival Jury Award Critics' Award
Fountain of Youth
FlageyOlav has been denied contact with his newborn child. Without family or friends to support him, he looks for security, love and meaning in the strangest places, and the search leads him to an eccentric therapist found in one of the darkest places on the web. The therapist asks Olav to record his innermost thoughts…
Patser
UGC De BrouckèreIn Antwerp, 4 childhood friends, Scarface fans and small dealers dream of becoming future sponsors of organised crime. But their legend turns into a nightmare when they steal a load of cocaine, starting a war with a drug lord in Amsterdam and the Colombian cartels.
Back to the future
Mont des ArtsA young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling Delorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown. A fish out of water in 1955, he must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.
La Meglio Gioventu
BOZARThe Meglio Gioventù tells the story of an Italian family from the late sixties to the present day. Nicola and Matteo are two brothers who initially share the same dreams, books and friendships. When they meet Giorgia, a young girl suffering from mental disorders, their future takes a different turn. Nicola decides to become a…
Breathless
VendômeFollowing the deaths of his father and many others from his village, filmmaker Daniel Lambo sets off on a passionate quest to find the truth about the deadly asbestos industry. His search takes him to the largest asbestos waste dump in India and unveils a cold-blooded industry still endangering the lives of workers and consumers…
Croc-Blanc
BOZARAfter his father's death, Jack Conroy goes to Alaska to follow his footsteps as a gold-digger. It's not easy for him in the harsh conditions, but he finds warmth in a young wolf named White Fang.
La Grand-Messe
FlageyThe Tour de France. Faithful followers converging on a mountaintop, A stage of the legendary bicycle race is coming, Throngs of RVs 'round the bend: The ritual gathering has begun. IN THE PRESENCE OF Méryl Fortunat-Rossi Valéry Rosier
Shéhérazade
UGC De BrouckèreZachary, 17, leaves prison. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in Marseille’s blue collar neighborhoods. That’s where he meets Sheherazade…With virtuosity, Jean-Bernard Marlin brings us a contemporary coming of age love story without pathos or moralizing all while avoiding the trap of the pseudorealist documentary. A first film, shot with non professional actors, which…
Ceres
GaleriesCeresis a poetic and tangible documentary film that follows four children as they experience the natural cycle of life on a farm. Each child lives on a remote farm in the southwest of The Netherlands and is learning the profession of their ancestors from a young age. They dream that one day they will take…
Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil
FlageyAccording to «Closer to God Radio», nothing is conceived without God, especially not shampoos, cosmetics, record sales... An radio animator denounces this scam on air, and ends up being fired. He appears again on a new radio called «Closer to the Truth Radio».
No Date no Signature
BOZARThe forensic pathologist Dr Nariman, a principled and virtuous man, has an accident with a motorcyclist and his family, and injures his 8-year-old son. He pays compensation to the man and offers to take the child to a clinic nearby. The next morning, he finds out that the same little boy has been brought in…
Quality Time
Flagey5 men, 5 episodes. From minimalist animation to realist filmmaking by way of fairy tales and science fiction in black and white, Daan Bakker draws the portraits of thirtysomethings confronted with the cruelty of daily life and the difficulty of being true to oneself. With daring and creativity Quality Time brings together the grotesque, the…
Le Bal des Actrices
UGC De BrouckèreA director shoots a documentary about all kinds of actresses: stars, drama queens, unknowns, has-beens... At first distant, she is quickly pulled in by those fragile but manipulative women, and ends up falling in love with one of them. Maïwenn continues to blur the line between reality and fiction in this send-up of the icons…
Patser
PalaceIn Antwerp, 4 childhood friends, Scarface fans and small dealers dream of becoming future sponsors of organised crime. But their legend turns into a nightmare when they steal a load of cocaine, starting a war with a drug lord in Amsterdam and the Colombian cartels.
Swooni
GaleriesThe paths of 6 very different people cross in a luxury hotel. As a heat wave invades the city, emotions intensify. Swooni is a surprising mosaic film about hope and despair, passion and betrayal, in which no one will be the same after the check-out… IN THE PRESENCE OF Kaat Beels Natalie Basteyns
Fitzcarraldo
VendômeAt the beginning of the 20th century, in Iquitos, a small town lost in the heart of the Amazon, the adventurer Brian Fitzgerald dreams of building an opera and of making the great Caruso sing there. To finance his project, he buys a rubber concession known to be inaccessible. Supported by the influential Molly, he…
Manifesto
BOZARThirteen foundational texts of the history of art and of ideas. Thirteen monologues, thirteen characters, all interpreted by the unique Cate Blanchett. Directed by German artist Julian Rosefeldt, the Australian artist gives form and voice to the manifestos of Tzara, Debord, Marx and others. Dissenting but ferociously poetic, Manifesto is a radical project that gives…
Sunset Boulevard
PalaceThe body of a Hollywood scriptwriter, Joe Gillis, is discovered in the swimming pool of a home inhabited by a silent film star, Norma Desmond. Via flashback Joe explains what happened, starting with the day he found himself in Norma's driveway trying to escape from the finance company. Because he need money so badly, he…
Good Manners
FlageyClara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans. Festival du Film de Locarno 2017 Prix spécial du jury international Gerardmer Fantasy Film Festival 2018 Jury…
Quality Time
Galeries5 men, 5 episodes. From minimalist animation to realist filmmaking by way of fairy tales and science fiction in black and white, Daan Bakker draws the portraits of thirtysomethings confronted with the cruelty of daily life and the difficulty of being true to oneself. With daring and creativity Quality Time brings together the grotesque, the…
Under the silver lake
BOZARSam is a disenchanted 33-year old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy in the City of Angeles. Cannes Film…
Bitter Flowers
GaleriesLina, an ambitious young woman, leaves her husband and her son in China to go to Paris to ensure a better future for them. But once in Europe nothing happens as planned and she locks herself in a world of lies in order to not abandon her dream. IN THE PRESENCE OF Olivier Meys
Diamantino
PalaceDiamantino, the world's premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, and the hunt for the source of genius. A remarkable first film, sailing between genres. Critics’ Week…
No Date no Signature
FlageyThe forensic pathologist Dr Nariman, a principled and virtuous man, has an accident with a motorcyclist and his family, and injures his 8-year-old son. He pays compensation to the man and offers to take the child to a clinic nearby. The next morning, he finds out that the same little boy has been brought in…
Much Loved
UGC De BrouckèreMarrakech, nowadays. Noha, Randa, Soukaina and Hlima live on paid love. They are prostitutes, objects of desire. Full of life and accomplices, worthy and emancipated, they overcome on a daily basis the violence of a society that uses them while blaming them.
Ceres
VendômeCeresis a poetic and tangible documentary film that follows four children as they experience the natural cycle of life on a farm. Each child lives on a remote farm in the southwest of The Netherlands and is learning the profession of their ancestors from a young age. They dream that one day they will take…
JCVD
BOZARBetween his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and…
Les Valseuses
PalaceJean-Claude and Pierrot are two crude drifters who travel the French countryside in pursuit of petty crimes and wanton sex. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician becomes an exercise in frustration, they find sordid solace in a sex-starved ex-convict. IN THE PRESENCE OF Gérard Depardieu
Körfez
FlageyAfter failed ambitions and a failed marriage, Selim returns to Izmir, his hometown. Unable to project himself into the future, totally apathetic, he becomes the anti-hero of his own life, insensitive to the pestilential smell that has invaded the city. A dystopia where stink becomes a metaphor for a decomposing socio-political situation. FLAGEY - IN…
Zagros
FlageyHavin, the young wife of Zagros, a Kurdish shepherd, is accused of adultery. With her little daughter Rayhan, she flees Kurdistan for Belgium. Convinced of her innocence, Zagros decides to join her in Belgium to start a new life. But in Brussels, Zagros begins to doubt: it seems that Havin didn't tell the whole truth.…
Doubleplusungood
UGC De BrouckèreIn 2018, in a country that doesn’t exist, Dago Cassandra, a small time crook, returns to his kingdom after fifteen years in exile, invested with a divine mission to kill the twelve apostles of Lucifer, represented by the pyramid of power... An extremely dangerous mission, especially when there is a price on your head! IN…
Manuel
BOZARManuel has just turned 18. It is time to leave the youth centre where he has lived for the past years, after his mother went to prison. But the newfound freedom is bittersweet. Roaming the streets of his desolate neighborhood, alone with his hopes and fears, Manuel tries to leave the teenager behind and become…
Trouble Every Day
FlageyShane and June are American newlyweds in Paris, but this is no ordinary honeymoon. Shane is a man possessed, desperately searching for his old colleague, Dr. Leo Semeneau, with whom he worked on dangerous experiments into the human libido. He and Semeneau bear the terrible living scars of their researches, and Shane is tormented by…
Fountain of Youth
GaleriesOlav has been denied contact with his newborn child. Without family or friends to support him, he looks for security, love and meaning in the strangest places, and the search leads him to an eccentric therapist found in one of the darkest places on the web. The therapist asks Olav to record his innermost thoughts…
Posoki
BOZARDirections is a road movie through the dystopia of Bulgaria today, a country that remains optimistic, because all realists and pessimists have left it. During an appointment with his banker, the owner of a small business, who drives a taxi to make ends meet, discovers that the bribe he will have to pay to obtain…
Being John Malkovich
UGC De BrouckèreA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
Doubleplusungood
GaleriesIn 2018, in a country that doesn’t exist, Dago Cassandra, a small time crook, returns to his kingdom after fifteen years in exile, invested with a divine mission to kill the twelve apostles of Lucifer, represented by the pyramid of power... An extremely dangerous mission, especially when there is a price on your head! IN…
Les Garçons sauvages
FlageyAt the beginning of the XXth century, five freedom loving adolescents from well-to-do families commit a brutal crime. Condemned to a repressive cruise run by The Captain, they mutiny and wash up on a wild island where pleasure and fantastic vegetation abound. The transformation can begin….A fantastic, erotic tale, luxuriant like a jungle, subversive as…
Plaire, aimer et courir vite
PalaceJacques is a writer and theater author in Paris. Arthur is young, studying in Rennes. They meet at the turn of a theatre and a cinema. They are living a story in a complicated period: the 90s. Love hovers with death. Tenderness fights against despair, life goes on against all odds. Cannes 2018 - Official…
Manuel
VendômeManuel has just turned 18. It is time to leave the youth centre where he has lived for the past years, after his mother went to prison. But the newfound freedom is bittersweet. Roaming the streets of his desolate neighborhood, alone with his hopes and fears, Manuel tries to leave the teenager behind and become…
Dogman
BOZARDogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of…
Bitter Flowers
UGC De BrouckèreLina, an ambitious young woman, leaves her husband and her son in China to go to Paris to ensure a better future for them. But once in Europe nothing happens as planned and she locks herself in a world of lies in order to not abandon her dream. IN THE PRESENCE OF Olivier Meys
Ni juge, ni soumise
FlageyThe extraordinary, offbeat judge Anne Gruwez takes us behind the scenes of real life criminal investigations. For three years the satirical team behind the cult TV series Strip-Tease captured what no one had dared film before. Unapologetic and politically incorrect. You won't believe your eyes. It's not cinema: it's worse! IN THE PRESENCE OF Yves…
La Haine
BRIFF VillageThe inhabitants of a quiet social housing without any specific issues, wake up one day to a state of siege. The youngsters from the Muguets neighbourhood have spent the night fighting with the police. The reason? Abdel Ichah, 16 years old, is between life and death after being injured by a police inspector while being…
Zagros
GaleriesHavin, the young wife of Zagros, a Kurdish shepherd, is accused of adultery. With her little daughter Rayhan, she flees Kurdistan for Belgium. Convinced of her innocence, Zagros decides to join her in Belgium to start a new life. But in Brussels, Zagros begins to doubt: it seems that Havin didn't tell the whole truth.…
Insyriated
PalaceTrapped inside her own home as the city around her is reduced to rubble, mother of three Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass) takes comfort in the familiarity of household routines. The streets below are a war zone, with a barricaded doorway providing the only protection from the threat of deadly bombs and sniper fire. One day,…
Jia nian hua
UGC De BrouckèreA scandal breaks out in a small seaside town in southern China when two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middleaged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job and revealing her illegal status, she says nothing. Venice International Film…
Posoki
GaleriesDirections is a road movie through the dystopia of Bulgaria today, a country that remains optimistic, because all realists and pessimists have left it. During an appointment with his banker, the owner of a small business, who drives a taxi to make ends meet, discovers that the bribe he will have to pay to obtain…
Les Garçons sauvages
VendômeAt the beginning of the XXth century, five freedom loving adolescents from well-to-do families commit a brutal crime. Condemned to a repressive cruise run by The Captain, they mutiny and wash up on a wild island where pleasure and fantastic vegetation abound. The transformation can begin….A fantastic, erotic tale, luxuriant like a jungle, subversive as…
Witz
PalaceStella, an actress on the sidelines, loses her ability to laugh after a brain injury. Without humour, she can no longer work, her life despairs her, she touches the bottom... Under the advice of her neurologist, she meets Frank, a geologist, driller/blaster in an exploitation, that suffers from the same syndrome. PALACE - IN THE…
Arrhythmia
VendômeOleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict…
Breathless
UGC De BrouckèreFollowing the deaths of his father and many others from his village, filmmaker Daniel Lambo sets off on a passionate quest to find the truth about the deadly asbestos industry. His search takes him to the largest asbestos waste dump in India and unveils a cold-blooded industry still endangering the lives of workers and consumers…
Un couteau dans le cœur
PalaceParis 1979. Anne produces cheap gay porn. When Loïs her editor and lover leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film. But when one of her actors is brutally murdered, Anne is dragged into an investigation which will turn her life upside down. A thriller that gives Hell a…
The Big Lebowski
BRIFF Village"The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
The Guilty
GaleriesA woman, victim of a kidnapping, contacts the police emergency room. The line is brutally cut. To find her the police officer who received the call can only rely on his intuition, his imagination and his telephone. International Thriller Film Festival of Beaune (2018) Prix de la Critique IN THE PRESENCE OF: Jakob Cedergren
The Return
PalaceKaroline and Thomas, born in Korea, adopted and taken to Denmark, return to the country of their birth to search for their past. Partially inspired by her own story, Malene Choi Jensen intertwines fiction and documentary with delicacy and modesty to bring us one of the truest and most beautiful films about adoption. The Return is…
Jia nian hua
GaleriesA scandal breaks out in a small seaside town in southern China when two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middleaged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job and revealing her illegal status, she says nothing. Venice International Film…
Twice upon a Time in the West
UGC De BrouckèreMila, a bride on the run, stumbles upon a ghost town in the middle of the desert whilst trying tho escape from her murderous husband-to-be. This surreal landscape has served once as a setting for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, so its local inhabitants still dream of being film extras. When Mila gets a job as…
Tully
VendômeMarlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her wealthy brother. While at first hesitant to accept the extravagance, she comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny Tully.
De Kus
PalaceKorte documentaire waarin de regisseur op zoek gaat naar de ideale kus. Ze komt terecht bij twee experts : haar ouders. Zij vertellen haar over de rol van de kus in hun 35-jarig huwelijk. Een eerlijk en soms onthutsend portret. IN THE PRESENCE OF Kaat Beels Natalie Basteyns
Bedtime stories
PalaceJarenlang was het bed in een hotelkamer getuige van het nachtelijke doen en laten van zowel de groten der aarde als van anonieme gasten. Nu wordt het bedankt voor bewezen diensten. Nog eenmaal vertelt het bed zijn fascinerende memoires : bedtime stories, even voor het slapen gaan. IN THE PRESENCE OF Kaat Beels Natalie Basteyns
Cologne
PalaceFrank en Alex delen een onmogelijke liefde. Want Frank heeft naast Alex ook nog een "écht" gezin. De twee trekken er op uit, op zoek naar privacy. Maar die lijkt - met dank aan de gsm - zelfs op een hotelkamer niet echt te vinden. Wat volgt is een zoektocht naar liefde en macht, en…
Stil levend
PalaceIn België stappen elke dag zes mensen bewust uit het leven - goed voor tweeduizend zelfdodingen per jaar. Hoe pijnlijk en moeilijk het ook lijkt om erover te praten, het werkt wel troostend, zo weet ook cineaste Nathalie Basteyns. In "Stil Levend" zoekt zij gezinnen op die met zelfdoding geconfronteerd werden, onder wie ook zwemmer…
Manifesto
GaleriesThirteen foundational texts of the history of art and of ideas. Thirteen monologues, thirteen characters, all interpreted by the unique Cate Blanchett. Directed by German artist Julian Rosefeldt, the Australian artist gives form and voice to the manifestos of Tzara, Debord, Marx and others. Dissenting but ferociously poetic, Manifesto is a radical project that gives…
The Return
GaleriesKaroline and Thomas, born in Korea, adopted and taken to Denmark, return to the country of their birth to search for their past. Partially inspired by her own story, Malene Choi Jensen intertwines fiction and documentary with delicacy and modesty to bring us one of the truest and most beautiful films about adoption. The Return is…
Ni juge, ni soumise
VendômeThe extraordinary, offbeat judge Anne Gruwez takes us behind the scenes of real life criminal investigations. For three years the satirical team behind the cult TV series Strip-Tease captured what no one had dared film before. Unapologetic and politically incorrect. You won't believe your eyes. It's not cinema: it's worse! IN THE PRESENCE OF Yves…
The Guilty
UGC De BrouckèreA woman, victim of a kidnapping, contacts the police emergency room. The line is brutally cut. To find her the police officer who received the call can only rely on his intuition, his imagination and his telephone. International Thriller Film Festival of Beaune (2018) Prix de la Critique IN THE PRESENCE OF: Jakob Cedergren
Dogman
PalaceDogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of…
Zombieland
UGC De BrouckèreNerdy college student Columbus has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he's scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other's company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.
Carnivores
PalaceMona has always dreamed of being an actress. After leaving the Conservatory, she is promised a bright future but it is Sam, her younger sister, who is noticed and quickly becomes a renowned actress. At the dawn of her thirties, short of resources, Mona is forced to move in with her sister who, weakened by…
Körfez
VendômeAfter failed ambitions and a failed marriage, Selim returns to Izmir, his hometown. Unable to project himself into the future, totally apathetic, he becomes the anti-hero of his own life, insensitive to the pestilential smell that has invaded the city. A dystopia where stink becomes a metaphor for a decomposing socio-political situation. FLAGEY - IN…
Ta Peau si lisse
PalaceJean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are modern-day gladiators. The group includes high-level bodybuilders, a strongman and an ex-champion-turned-trainer. As they prepare for future competitions, they follow extreme diets and slave away at the gym. Each man pursues his own personal goals, but all share the same obsession: overcoming the limits of their bodies.…
Under the silver lake
UGC De BrouckèreSam is a disenchanted 33-year old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy in the City of Angeles. Cannes Film…
Carnivores
GaleriesMona has always dreamed of being an actress. After leaving the Conservatory, she is promised a bright future but it is Sam, her younger sister, who is noticed and quickly becomes a renowned actress. At the dawn of her thirties, short of resources, Mona is forced to move in with her sister who, weakened by…
Witz
VendômeStella, an actress on the sidelines, loses her ability to laugh after a brain injury. Without humour, she can no longer work, her life despairs her, she touches the bottom... Under the advice of her neurologist, she meets Frank, a geologist, driller/blaster in an exploitation, that suffers from the same syndrome. PALACE - IN THE…
The Last Son
UGC De BrouckèreOn July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy was driving around Chappaquiddick Island with a campaign aide when he accidentally drove his car off a bridge, resulting in the death of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. It was a tragedy that quickly morphed into a scandal when a team of spin doctors went to work to protect…