The 30th BIFFF will take place from the 5th of April in Brussels.
Yesterday, what a night! Between Barbara Steele, Terry Gilliam and a surprise video from siiiiir John Carpenter, the tune has been given for this 30th BIFFF anniversary!
The Brussels International Film Festival has grown from a small, relatively unknown (except to the fans of the fantastic) happening into a grand scale event that lures over 60.000 spectators every year and shows over 100 films. For this reason w...
Filmmakers, Sales Agents & Distributors from all over the world are welcome to submit their work for the Fifth Edition of the Razor Reel Fantastic Film Festival, which will take place from October the 25th till November the 3th in the Medieval city of Bruges, Belgium.
· Participating in the festival is free.
· European shorts are awarded with...
Today, at restaurant Pakhuis in Ghent, the Ghent Film Festival announced the complete programme of its 38th edition, which runs from 11 to 22 October. Once again it includes over a hundred high-quality films and special events on the fringes of cinema. Highlights are the 11th World Soundtrack Awards, the Maestros of Suspense concert and the exhibition about Ingmar Bergman at the Caermersklooster Provincial Cultural Centre. Star guests this year are the Canadian director Norman Jewison, who wil...
The opening film of the 37th Ghent Film Festival is director Hilde Van Mieghem’s new film, Madly In Love. In this romantic comedy Van Mieghem focuses on the turbulent love lives of four women living together, played by Veerle Dobbelaere, Wine Dierickx, Marie Vinck and Aline Van Hulle. Their male counterparts are Koen De Bouw, Koen De Graeve, Kevin Janssens, Jan Decleir and Huub Stapel. Madly In Love, a feel-good rom-com zooms in on the turbulent lives of four strong women: teenager Eva, her mo...
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (Belgium), Cologne Film (Germany) and Orisa Produzioni (Italy) will coproduce the Belgian-German-Italian film MARINA, directed by Stijn Coninx. Over 40% of the 6.000.000 Euro budget is in place, originating from the Benelux. Principal photography is planned for summer of 2011, release is scheduled for March 2012.
Although set in the fifties, in post war Europe, Marina taps into that very modern and actual theme of migration and integration. But foremost, ...
Film Festival Ghent celebrates 10th anniversary World Soundtrack Awards The World Soundtrack Awards, an awards presentation honoring the best in film music established by the Ghent International Film Festival’s World Soundtrack Academy in 2001, has announced an all star line up to usher in its 10th year. Ten world class composers will be appearing live in concert at the awards presentation in Ghent, Belgium on October 23rd. Those confirmed include Oscar winners Howard Shore (Lord Of The Rings)...
This year the BRUSSELS FILM FESTIVAL will take place from the 23th until the 30th of June 2010 at Flagey (Brussels, Belgium).
This new edition will be marked by the arrival of Ivan Corbisier, the new director of the eventn combining a talent for event organization and a passion for cinema!
Ivan Corbisier began his career as an organizer of events in France and as a journalist in Belgium. Then he became director of a cultural center and the delegated manager of the...
Eyes Wide Open by the Israelian director Haim Tabakman wins the Grand Prize for the Best Film at the 36th Ghent International Film Festival. This was announced by the International Jury at the town hall of Ghent. Other awards went to Zion and his Brother (Best Script), A Rational Solution (Best Music) and the short film Amor by Thomas Wangsmo.The International Jury this year : Chairman Niki Reiser (composer, Switserland), Filip Peeters (actor, Belgium ), WANG Quan’an (director, China) and Lasz...
The latest film by Felix van Groeningen, The Misfortunates, opens the 36th edition of the Ghent Film Festival on 6 October. A première of the film will be shown simultaneously in four of the cinemas in the Kinepolis complex and in the Vooruit arts centre. The Misfortunates (De helaasheid der dingen), named after the book by Dimitri Verhulst, is about 13-year-old Gunther Strobbe who lives with his father and his three uncles in his grandmother’s home in a totally slovenly place in Reetveerdege...
Although the Competition was finely tuned with new films by Atom Egoyan, from Hungary and around the globe,it is just one of several parallel programmes vieing for attention in Gent: Festival Previews (including a pre-festival curtain-raiser of Woody Allen's latest, Vicky Cristina Barcelona),culled from other festivals but with Belgian distibution imported some international glamour, such as Woody Harrelson(with Transiberia) and Walter Salles(introducing Linha de Passe);World Cinema (with...
Flanders films have broken the 2003 admissions record which longtime was considered to be unbreakable. With still one title to go in release next week, close to 1,135,000 cinemagoers already went to see an indigenous production this year. In 2003, 1,048,280 paying cinemagoers were registered at screenings of indigenous films.Five titles attracted well over 100,000 cinemagoers this year. The internationally acclaimed Ben X by Nic Balthazar takes the lead with well over 250,000 admissions, followe...
34th Flanders International Film Festival GhentSpecials:- Monday 8 Oct: Pre-Opening @ Kinepolis: Sicko – Michael Moore – USA 2007 (A-Film) - Tuesday 9 Oct: Official Opening Festivalpreviews @ Kinepolis: Closing The Ring – R. Attenborough – UK/Canada/USA 2007 (A-Film)Official Opening competition @ Kinepolis: In The Valley Of Elah – Paul Haggis – USA 2007 (KFD) Opening Almost Cinema in Vooruit: Sand And Sorrow – Paul Freedman – USA 2007 (Paradiso)- Friday 19 Oct – 8pm: Clos...
Gale Force 10, the new Flemish film by Hans Herbots, will have its world premiere on Friday, October 6 on the eve of the 33rd edition of the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent. Gale Force 10 will be the official opening film of the Festival Previews section. The opening itself promises to be an impressive spectacle, thanks to the cooperation of the 40th Sea King squadron.Gale Force 10 is the third feature film by the Flemish director Hans Herbots. Hans Herbots made his debut in 2001 wi...
European Film Academy Honours Maurice JarreSpecial concert with Flemish Radio Symphonic OrchestraAs a highlight of the European Film Awards Weekend, the prestigious composers Bruno Coulais, Frédéric Devreese, George Fenton, Alberto Iglesias, Maurice Jarre, Zbigniev Preisner, Stephen Warbeck, and Gabriel Yared will be in Berlin for a special concert: On Friday, December 2, the Flemish Radio Symphonic Orchestra under Dirk Brossé will present La Musique de l'Image - European Film Composers in Co...
The World Film Festival – Montreal 2005 wrapped this Monday evening and honored Off Screen by Pieter Kuijpers with the Grand Prix of the Americas.The Dutch-Flemish coproduction Off Screen by Pieter Kuijpers has won the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the 29th World Film Festival in Montréal. Jan Decleir was awarded the Prize for Best Actor for his performance of John R in the film. Off Screen is a coproduction by Dutch Rinkel Film and the Flemish Another Dimension Of An Idea. The film is supporte...
MEDIA Salles, the initiative on behalf of European cinemas, with the support of the MEDIA Programme and the Italian Government, is promoting the second edition of the exhibitor training course:“DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for European Cinemas”Kuurne, Belgium6-10 April 2005in collaboration with BARCO to be held at Barco headquartersMain topicsThe present state of the European and international market for digital screeningOverview of technologiesExhibition and DistributionDigital Cinem...
NOBODY KNOWS wins the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent On Saturday October 16, 2004, the list of prizewinners for the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent was announced by Maurice Jarre, President of the Festival Jury. Once again, this 31st edition was an outstanding event, graced by the presence of Lord Richard Attenborough, Jonathan Pryce, David Carradine, Romain Duris and many other celebrities. On a sadder note, in a series of moving tributes, the Festival al...
NOBODY KNOWS wins the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent On Saturday October 16, 2004, the list of prizewinners for the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent was announced by Maurice Jarre, President of the Festival Jury. Once again, this 31st edition was an outstanding event, graced by the presence of Lord Richard Attenborough, Jonathan Pryce, David Carradine, Romain Duris and many other celebrities. On a sadder note, in a series of moving tributes, the Festival al...
The Alzheimer Case Best Belgian film 2003.With four Awards (out of five nominations), and the Box Office Award THE ALZHEIMER CASE by Erik Van Looy is the great winner of this year’s Belgian Oscars, the Joseph Plateau Awards. All films released between January 1st and December 31 2003 were eligible for nominations. The Joseph Plateau Awards Ceremony is an organization of the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent. Nominated in four categories, The Alzheimer Case won just as much Joseph Plat...
Today the nominees for the Joseph Plateau Awards 2003 were announced. All Belgian short and feature length films released in Belgian theatres between January 1st and December 31st, 2003 were eligible. These are the nominees BEST BELGIAN FILMANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS (Corridor)LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE (Vivi Films)THE ALZHEIMER CASE (MMG)BEST BELGIAN DIRECTORLUCAS BELVAUX (Cavale, Un Couple Epatant & Apres La Vie)STIJN CONINX (Sea Of Silence)ERIK VAN LOOY (The Alzheimer Case)BEST BELGIAN ACTRESSN...
The truly gigantic success at the local box office of Erik Van Looy’s De zaak Alzheimer (The Alzheimer Case) and Jan Verheyen’s Team Spirit II, in combination with indigenous arthouse hits such as Tom Barman’s Any Way the Wind Blows and the Oscar-nominated French-Flemish-Canadian-UK co-production Les triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendezvous/The Triplets of Belleville) resulted in a quadrupling of admissions for Flemish films last year. A total of well over 1 million Flemish and Br...
FLEMISH CINEMA REACHES UNPRECEDENTED 33% MARKET SHARE Jan Verheyen's Team Spirit II registered just north of 52,000 admissions in its five-day opening weekend, making it the second biggest opening result for a Belgian film this year. Compared to the first installment of the Team Spirit franchise, admissions for the sequel are up 10%. Only Pixar/Disney's Finding Nemo, which swims on three times as many Belgian screens, managed to keep Team Spirit II from the top position in Flanders.With business...
