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What happens when a world that relies on traffic and the logistics that allow it comes to a standstill? What happens when sickness and even death are taken from us?

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.

“To me films are an imaginary world where emotion comes into play.” YOO Teo traveled to Belgium to make his movie but he ended up being locked down due to COVID-19. This film is about his 15-days of quarantine in Antwerp Hotel fighting for his movie and loneliness. He also depicted his most personal story. This is the debut film of YOO Teo both as the star and the director.

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A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.

A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.

When terrorists from space kidnap Belgian weatherwoman Sabine Hagedoren because they want eternal rain, Jean-Claude Van Damme comes to the rescue.

Winter, 2025. Belgium—unknown. Video-notes from a seven-day bicycle tour. Only wind, rain, pedaling, and abandoned places, where the filmmaker spends his time or sleeps.

Belgian jazz is enjoying a renaissance, driven by artists mixing jazz and electronic music. Around the Volta in Brussels, groups like Echt! and Tukan are reinventing the genre and exporting this ‘Brussels Sound’. This Jam documentary explores the effervescence of Belgian jazz and its international impact.

When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is blocking their way. An unashamed allegory of the German rape of Belgium.

In the late 1980s, the Belgian electronic New Beat music movement conquered dance floors worldwide, and all of a sudden Belgium was on the map. This eclectic predecessor of house music appeared to materialize out of nothing, but according to the makers of The Sound of Belgium, it was the product of a historical search for identity that apparently went back to the Battle of Waterloo and the aftermath of the First World War.

To mark the century of film Geens and Lobet directed this homage to Belgian cinema in 101 fragments.

Short documentary on the clandestine press in Belgium during the WW II German occupation.

The small Belgian army held up the German advance, the British Expeditionary Force fought its first battle and the invincible German army was brought to a standstill in Belgium. This film traces that first month, the battles of Liège, Antwerp and Mons. In reconstruction it uses the words of those who took part and looks at the remains of the battlefields and the fortifications that still exist.

Two criminals form a pact to destroy Belgium so that their principals can take over the government and restore order with a firm hand.

Impressions of Elisabeth of Bavaria's, Queen of the Belgians, visit to Poland in 1955.

The small Belgian army held up the German advance, the British Expeditionary Force fought its first battle and the invincible German army was brought to a standstill in Belgium. This film traces that first month, the battles of Liège, Antwerp and Mons. In reconstruction it uses the words of those who took part and looks at the remains of the battlefields and the fortifications that still exist.

Sepultura at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium Territory Slave New World Propaganda Roots Bloody Roots Spit Anticop Beneath the Remains [Short Version] Inner Self Straighthate Troops of Doom Nomad Kaiowas Attitude Procreation (of the Wicked) Necromancer Escape to the Void [Short Version] Arise / Dead Embryonic Cells Chaos B.C. Refuse/Resist Biotech Is Godzilla Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing Polícia

Enemy Within, Heart of Darkness, The Immortal, Dark Insanity, Savage Messiah, Lament of a Mortal Soul, Behind the Smile, Pilgrim, Ravenous, Dead Bury Their Dead, Snow Bound, Shadows and Dust

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.

The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.

After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.

Under the scorching heat of the Belgian Ardennes, Lola returns to the family home after a year away. She reunites with her younger sister, Camille, who has been taking care of their mother, Anne, suffering from Alzheimer’s. During this afternoon, tension builds between the sisters as Anne wanders off into the woods, while a violent wildfire spreads through the region.

A tough nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8-year-old daughter is forced to go undercover after an unfortunate event.

Sam organizes a snuff movie at a museum without his two accomplices knowing what he had planned. But things don't go as expected.

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.

Between 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! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

In the distant future, Brussels is the last habitable place on Earth, thanks to its regular rainfall. The city is flooded, and a thick gray sky forms an increasingly impenetrable lid over it. Transformed into a vat and now overrun by wild beer yeast, Brussels is beginning to ferment. Faced with this threat, a group of residents is tasked with devising a strategy.

Evie, a young girl of Armenian and French heritage, is torn between the two cultures. As she navigates family expectations and her own identity, she confronts the challenges of living between two worlds.

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

In Brussels, a construction worker crosses paths with a bryologist.

A café in the north of Brussels. Days are punctuated by the songs that the customers sing at all hours, to amuse themselves, to remember or to pass the time. Those songs transform the place little by little, making the film a strange musical.

Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.

Amidst an icy dreamscape, a woman takes refuge in a black metal karaoke bar. Outside, she finds a lone penguin stranded in a tree, cut off from its colony.

Inès, 16 years old, is determined to find a job when she meets Martin, a boy from the nice neighborhoods of Brussels. Feeling something between shame and fascination, she becomes brutally aware of social injustice.

In the ‘poor crescent’ around Brussels one child in three lives on the poverty line. But they can find refuge with BX Brussels of Vincent Kompany – a sports and social project. Stranger follows recent immigrant Senegalese football coach Moussa as he struggles to give them hope in their sport … and in their life.

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

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She has a clear agenda to which she is tirelessly committed: fighting poverty, education, health, and strengthening the rights of women and children. As a trained psychologist, she is a leading figure in the fields of mental health and child welfare. From the Royal Palace, this mother of four has taken up the fight against cyberbullying with a video message she produced herself: “Cyberbullying is despicable!” As honorary president of the “Child Focus” foundation, she advocates for missing and sexually exploited children—an issue that has deeply affected Belgian society since the horrific crimes of Marc Dutroux in the 1990s. As honorary president of UNICEF, she is committed to promoting children’s rights worldwide.

A contemporary read out of Hansel and Gretl, discussing gender, family and social problems.

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

Documentary about monarchy and royal courts around the world.

Bwana Kitoko (swa. 'handsome young man') is a 1955 Belgian documentary directed by André Cauvin. It shows the official visit of king Baudouin of Belgium to the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

Paola is the most secretive queen in the history of the kingdom. Adored at her marriage then hated because of her overly obvious refusal of the ceremonial function, Paola is an enigmatic queen who decided to lead her life "almost" as she saw fit. She confides in this documentary

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his reign, this documentary sets out to meet the King, whom director Nicolas Delvaulx was able to follow for more than a year. Never had a king confided with such frankness and spontaneity.

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast country into his private estate (1885-1908) and how he plundered the land and raped the bodies and souls of its defenceless inhabitants, causing countless victims; and what exactly is the true impact of this often forgotten story of crime and horror today.

Documentary footage of a parade in Antwerp celebrating the annexation of Congo to Belgium.

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During his 1923 visit to Cairo, Prince Leopold III of Belgium climbed the Cheops pyramid. The film was shot by Tullio Chiarini, Italian photographer, cinematographer and correspondent in Cairo and Alexandria.

The adventures of Hergé, or how Georges Remi created The Adventures of Tintin. Interviews, archive footage and animation clips tell the story of Tintin, which is the history of the 20th century.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from early newsreels are shown.

Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.

Documents the sub-culture of latex fetishism. ALL ACCESS offers a visit inside the private and public circles of a fetish icons. It follows Bianca Beauchamp through three days and three nights during one of the Montreal Fetish Weekend. A party at home, a book signing, and a visit to a fetish event with peeps dressed in latex from head to toe. Written by Martin Perreault

Builds up on the original's idea of a fetish-reality-documentary melting pot following international latex fetish icon Bianca Beauchamp and her kinky friends day and night during a 3-day fetish event, on stage, behind the scenes, at home even!, and this time with a lot more latex extravagance and glamor! Following Bianca & her friends escapades offers a unique perspective on the subject of fetish, often considered taboo by many, and sheds a fun light into a world where cameras are usually frown upon. The result is a fun and captivating ride demystifying international fetish events, its artists, top models and party people. The film was shot at the Montreal Fetish Weekend 2007. Written by Martin Perreault