Wim Willaert

Felix and Martha, the two offspring of legendary serial murderer The Skinner of Mons, grapple with the grotesque legacy bequeathed to them. While Martha works a menial janitorial job, Felix continues his father's reign of terror. But following a brutal attack at work, Martha quickly descends into madness, finding she must come to terms with the infamous blood that flows through her veins.

4.5/10
1.8%

This is an absurd tragicomedy about Freek who, while clearing his childhood home, is surprised by a visit from none other than Little Moustache, his imaginary best friend from when he was a kid.

Marion does not love her husband anymore. She decides to leave him to live fully, not to be locked in the reassuring comfort of a family life. Dominique lives with his wife an identical situation but he can not take the plunge.

6.8/10

When a heavily traumatised girl of African origin is found wandering around the polders of the border region between Flanders and the Netherlands, Tara, a Dutch police inspector from Rotterdam, and Bert, a psychiatrist from Antwerp, begin to investigate.

6.2/10

9 years old Hugo spends the summer holidays with his cousins and his grandma Sara. When they learn that the wolf is coming to pick her up, the children are mobilizing to save their grandmother and embark on an unforgettable adventure.

5.6/10

Guy, 55 year-old taxi driver, is about to travel with the Eurostar, for the first time of his life : his daughter is getting married. But when he parks to take the train, he discovers concealed in his suitcase, a 7 year-old girl who's from Kinshasa. This is Maïssa. Her demand is clear and non-negotiable : Guy must take her with him to London, in his suitcase.

A hen house that causes a diplomatic incident, a child falling from the sky, a capitalist Christmas father, a plucky plumber with a Flemish accent and a killer bear: The best of the Belgian comedy. Five multi-award-winning shorts in the world.

Serge and his four colleagues work in a small company that has just been brought out by a large corporation. As a welcoming gift, they are invited by their new employer to spend a day of relaxation at a spa.

7/10

Henri, a baker in his fifties, suffers from his failed love with his wife Marieke. One morning after a quarrel with his wife, he meets Anita, a young contemporary photographer who likes the big shape of his body.

Harley, a paralyzed biker, feels stuck in his electric wheelchair. When all hope seems lost, he rediscovers his lust for life at the beach.

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a successful but lonely businessman, an enslaved porter, a young army deserter, a ghostly clarinetist. Some benefit from colonialism and greed. Others suffer racism and violence.

7.3/10
10%

In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck's right-hand man, and Eddy, a young man still a novice in the trade. One fine morning, however, a dead man pointed his nose. Hope is born again. Georges and Eddy are responsible for leading the deceased to his last abode. But in search of the cemetery that can not be found, the funeral convoy goes astray and the journey turns into a fiasco.

5.7/10

“Santa Claus is a capitalist. He brings toys to children of the wealthy and sweaters to those of the poor”. Nikos, aged five.

7.1/10

'Cargo' brings the raw story of three brothers who own a family business in the fishery and are trying to save it from destruction. The passion for their profession but also for their loved ones, however, drives them to desperate actions.

6.3/10
8.8%

Summoned to a mysterious meeting, Poppy, Vincent, Gaspard, and Adèle find themselves in front of a worn down bar, on the seaside, in Ostende. Rapidly, the four of them discover that they are not here by coincidence: in learning that they are half-brothers and sisters, they inherit the bar as well. With one mission: rebuild the restaurant together.

5.8/10

A look at the lives of three generations of women. Monique and her daughter Sylvie run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. Eline, Sylvie's six-year-old daughter, is fascinated by the mysterious workplace of her mother and grandmother, but she is never allowed inside. A dramatic event turns their lives upside down and the family ties are put under pressure.

6.9/10

The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.

6.2/10

August 1914. While Jean Mordant is away winning the title of Wrestling Champion of the World in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German occupiers in Ostend. Jean swears he will avenge this immoral disgrace. With his coach Victor and young nephew Guido, he enrolls in the prestigious ACM (Armored Car Division). But the heavily-built armored vehicles keep getting stuck in the mud of Flanders. The battalion is hastily transferred to the Eastern front. Jean is devastated by frustration for he has just learned that Mimi is pregnant. But war conditions are ruthless and he and his friends embark on a dramatic journey that ultimately will drag them around the world.

6.9/10

Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour ...

6.3/10

An off-the-wall crime comedy about two oddballs whose unusual friendship is torn apart by a winning lottery ticket scratched off in a desolate petrol station on the border between Flanders and France. Also... are wrong-way drivers real?

7/10

A vampire wants to live in a city that doesn't want her.

7.4/10

A local Belgian potato farmer loses all his money and tries to earn it back by growing cannabis.

7.9/10

Nine year-old Thomas spends most of his days at the flea market closely observing the Wheeling's and dealings of the market's sellers . His desire to be one of them leads him to embark on a one-night adventure that overwhelms him.

8/10

A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.

7.1/10

A father undertakes a last journey to the mountains together with his son. Looking for the Mont Blanc and for each other.

6/10

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.

5.8/10

Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.

6/10

Wesley, one night, Ostend. On his way to the place he never left. He lets the city and a mime player with a strange haircut be his guides.

6.7/10

Rocky grows up surrounded by death: everyone around him dies in a freak accident and each time he's at the center of it all. A modern tale about a lot of bad luck and a tiny bit of bliss.

7.5/10

A drama about a fortysomething man who entertains fantasies of a different life. Staging his apparent death, he moves to an island but pines for his former existence, and wonders if he could return to it.

5.7/10

When the obese, lonely teenage girl Claudine loses the only certainty in her life, she slips away into an emotional crises.

6.6/10

Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.

7/10
4.4%

Short film based on nouvella by Arnold Zweig, a young girl is run over bij a dog called Kong whilst playing on the beach. She demands her father to buy the dog in order to have him shot.

An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.

6.7/10
9%

Short film.

6.9/10

This is the story of a father, Jan, a cultural host in a hostile environment, and his daughter Marie, an occasional stripper, who are on the edge of a precipice. She wants to jump and he tries to hold her back. How? By telling him stories, as in the tales of "Arabian nights". As long as he holds her attention, she will not jump.

Maurice Sanders has a gift. He's a nipple whisperer. Once he was known as "Magic Sandy". But that was years ago, before Doris, a famous model and Sander's muse, fell ill. Now, after more than a decade, Doris wants to meet Maurice again.

A barbed love story in which a woman reads an intriguing advertisement in the newspaper: 'mn sks wmn to d fr'. Together they discover an all-encompassing love.