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- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsVeerle BaetensJohan HeldenberghNell CattrysseElise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
- DirectorLenny Van WesemaelStarsChloë DaxheletWim OpbrouckMonic Hendrickx1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he can sell anything to any one, at any time. When he hears the Pope is coming to Belgium, he spots an opportunity. In close proximity to the grounds where tens of thousands of believers will attend an open-air mass, Café Derby is for rent. Georges is convinced he'll earn a small fortune. His wife and five children however, are not convinced, as it would mean moving again in very short notice. But they'll soon find out that when George puts his mind to something, there's no stopping him. Café Derby tells the tragicomic story of a cheerful but slightly dysfunctional family, inspired by true events. Café Derby is the first feature film by Lenny Van Wesemael, a production of Menuet.
- DirectorLukas BossuytStarsMatteo SimoniKoen De GraeveKarina SmuldersWhat would you do if you could change the past?
- DirectorStijn ConinxJef Van de WaterStarsUrbanusBea Van Der MaatWilleke van AmmelrooyPlacide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt him if he doesn't find a woman soon. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsLuigi Lo CascioDonatella FinocchiaroMatteo SimoniThe true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
- DirectorRudi Van Den BosscheStarsDirk RoofthooftGregory Ver PoortenJoeri BusschotsOn the day before Christmas a man is being interrogated, suspected of murder. We hardly know anything about him and we don't understand why he has been taken in for interrogation. Because the suspect stubbornly refuses to answer any questions, the assistant inspector brings in a typewriter - an Olivetti 82. That way he can type out his own story. After all he's a writer, isn't he ? Gradually the man starts telling us the story of his life - searching for love and security. 'Olivetti 82' pictures the descent into an ordinary man's life. Step by step we find out about his tragic past.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsPili GroyneBenoît PoelvoordeCatherine DeneuveDid you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
- DirectorAdil El ArbiBilall FallahStarsSanâa AlaouiMartha Canga AntonioAboubakr BensaihiWhen Mavela, member of the notorious youth gang Black Bronx, falls madly in love with a boy from a rival gang, she is forced to make a choice between loyalty and love. A choice that will have dramatic consequences.
- DirectorRobin ProntStarsKevin JanssensJeroen PercevalVeerle BaetensA brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.
- DirectorManu RicheStarsTarek HalabyGökhan GirginolEvgenia BrendesThe cross-frontier migrant's life 'within the system' - an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues - becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul doesn't want to admit it, but the arrival of Lidia, a Russian girl makes a difference. Hope? Surely not! A future? Get real! December is also the ninth month of Martina's pregnancy. But, just when the situation seems hopeless, help is at hand. A Christmas story.
- DirectorDominique DeruddereStarsJamie DornanAnthony HeadMax PirkisA New York businessman must choose between the deal of his career and the love of his life.
- DirectorGeoffrey EnthovenStarsKoen De BouwTitus De VoogdtKoen De GraeveThe extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel.
- DirectorFilip PeetersStarsRuth BecquartGene BervoetsElla-June HenrardFollowing the love lives of different types of men in Ghent, Belgium.
- CreatorPaul PiedfortStarsKoen De BouwTanja OostvogelsGoele DerickThe eccentric but brilliant criminology professor Jasper Teerlinck is an advisor to the Belgian federal police in Antwerp. Although a valuable contributor, he drives everyone nuts because of his strange behavior.
- StarsReinhilde DecleirSien EggersLucas Van den EyndeA tragicomedy about the everyday life of a butchers family Vangenechten.
- StarsPiet De PraitereBart VannesteWim WillaertFamous stand-up comedian Freddy De Vadder flees to a picturesque village called Bevergem. Why? Nobody knows. He doesn't talk about it. The contrast between him and the grotesque residents could not be bigger. In anticipation of the yearly town festival the temper gets heated. But Freddy doesn't care. He just hopes his hideout is secure.
- StarsFilip PeetersArianna FoxViolet BraeckmanA police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsStef AertsTom VermeirStefaan De WinterThe drama follows two brothers who start a bar and get swept up in its success in the midst of Belgium's nightlife scene.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsKoen De BouwJohan LeysenVeerle BaetensA Belgian business executive takes on his country's justice system after a procedural error that released his wife's murderer drives him to take matters into his own hands.
- DirectorHans Van NuffelStarsStef AertsWouter HendrickxMarie VinckTwo young men share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
- DirectorChristophe Van RompaeyStarsBarbara SarafianJurgen DelnaetJohan HeldenberghMatty, a 41-year old mother of three with a husband in his midlife-crisis, meets 29-year old Johnny, a truck driver, who takes an interest in her.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsJan DecleirGérard DesartheAntje de BoeckIn the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsUrbanusSylvia MillecamFrank AendenboomHector had been in the orphanage for 35 years, until his aunt Ella and uncle Achiel pick him up. They want him to work at their bakery. At his new home he also helps training Achiel's son, Jos, who wants to be a cycling champion, and Ella with studying her role in a play.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsKoen De BouwFilip PeetersMatthias SchoenaertsFive close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
- DirectorHans HerbotsStarsJan DecleirKoen De BouwWouter HendrickxTwo ex-factory workers hijack their former manager in his own luxurious villa in an effort to force him to pay damages. When the manager's mistress shows up, things start to get out of hand.
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsTom Van LanduytMathias SercuTom Van BauwelCollege initiation rites on one Belgian campus end in tragic death of one freshman. His friends are determined to see the justice done.
- DirectorFrank van MechelenStarsKoen De BouwFilip PeetersAxel DaeseleireTom Vansant is an emergency physician from Brussels who is desperately searching for his daughter who ran away from home and is now missing for eighteen months. He meets a girl of whom he thinks that she knows what happened to his daughter but the girl doesn't want to talk about her past. In his search to find out why she doesn't talk about it he ends up in a small village in the Ardennes where no one wants to help him discover what really happened.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsMichel van DousselaereLotte HeijtenisKevin JanssensAnna breaks up with Bruno after he has cheated on her with their son Boris's schoolteacher. But her far too young lover can only temporarily offer distraction. Arno and her best friend Lydia's marriage, on the other hand, looks like the perfect marriage. But is it...? Between Alain and Fred all is roses: they are going to get married, or is the party over after all?
- DirectorJan VerheyenPieter Van HeesStarsIlya Van MalderghemJoke DevynckFilip PeetersGilles, a 12-year-old boy from the Brussels region, is a football (soccer) player. His dream is to become a member of the Belgian National Squad, the so called "Red Devils".
- DirectorErik Van LooyStarsKoen De BouwWerner De SmedtJan DecleirVincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer.
- DirectorFrank van MechelenStarsFilip PeetersEls OlaertsKyoko ScholiersIn August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsKoen De BouwWerner De SmedtBlerim DestaniVincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
- DirectorGeoffrey EnthovenStarsJurgen DelnaetKoen De GraeveEvelien BosmansStef moved to a new home, but there is another man in his home, Theo. Theo is the previous owner of the house, he died a few years ago. Stef seems to be the only one who can see him.
- DirectorTim van AelstStarsMatteo SimoniBruno Vanden BroeckeRuth BeeckmansSecurity team 'Safety First' accepts its biggest challenge so far: guarding the famous electronic music festival Tomorrowland.
- DirectorJan VerheyenStarsLouis TalpeLiesa NaertCarry GoossensDe Kampioenen are about to celebrate their 25th anniversary and want their long-lost original trainer to join them. Meanwhile, an old enemy is released from prison and enters a quest for revenge.
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsKenneth VanbaedenValentijn DhaenensKoen De GraeveA thirty-something novelist and impending father looks back on his all-too-formative years in the hapless, alcohol-ridden milieu of his youth in 1980s rural Flanders, Belgium.
- DirectorNic BalthazarStarsKoen De GraeveGeert Van RampelbergLotte PinoyBased on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Mario Verstraete (Koen De Graeve) rushes into marriage with Sofie (An Miller), who gives birth to their son Milan. His secret admirer Lynn (Lotte Pinoy) takes a step back. A few years later, Mario and Sofie divorce and the group fragments. Thomas (Geert Van Rampelberg), a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, gets stuck between a rock and a hard place when he diagnoses Mario with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). Though not a fatal disease, it slowly consumes the patient's bodily functions and - in some cases - their minds. Mario becomes the leading spokesman for the action group Waardig Sterven ("Dignified Death") in support of the Belgian legalisation of euthanasia. Thomas does everything in his power to avoid losing his best friend, but also can't stand the sight of his continued degeneration. The film follows the journey of both Thomas and Mario, as the latter asks: "will you help me, when the time comes?"
- DirectorZeno GratonStarsAnton LeurquinArieh WorthalterJudith WilliquetTo please his father and win the love he lacks, Jay, 14, wants to become a man and find a girlfriend. Forcing his entry into the violent territory of men, Jay will try to forget that he's still a child.
- DirectorFrank Van PasselStarsKevin JanssensWine DierickxNico SturmTraveling salesman Tony Roozen and his newest gadget, Porky (a robotic pig) end up stranded in the tiny hamlet of Madonna where deep and lasting political conflicts have disrupted village life. Tony can't wait to leave this godforsaken place but the young village teacher Maria Glorie needs his help. Who knows, maybe Porky can lend a hand?
- DirectorKevin MeulStarsRuth BecquartNatali BroodsRomy LauwersBenjamin is a teenager on annual holiday with his parents in Spain. During this holiday he meets the attractive and intriguing Annabel. Together with Annabel, he is about to embark on a dangerous adventure. One that he will never forget.
- DirectorPeter BrosensJessica WoodworthStarsPeter Van den BeginLucie DebayTitus De VoogdtDesperate to return home from a state visit to Istanbul when his country suffers its worst-ever political crisis, but unable to fly due to a solar storm, the King of the Belgians finds himself on a tumultuous road trip across the Balkans.
- DirectorPeter MonsaertStarsSara VertongenWim WillaertEsra VandenbusscheTogether with her mother, Sylvie runs a brothel near the Flemish-French border. Eline, Sylvie's daughter, is intrigued by her mother's peculiar working place.