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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • A House Is Not a Home

    This film explores the semiotic relationship between word and image; starting point is the notion that ambitious amateurs often add ‘relevant details’
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  • Jan zonder Vrees

    This animated film, full of references to Old Masters like Brueghel and Bosch, tells the tale of an extremely strong farm boy battling evil. Thanks…
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  • The Remnant

    In 1659 Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch Commander of the Cape in South Africa, planted a hedge of indigenous wild almond trees. Its remnants still exist.
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  • Pic-Nic

    Spilliaert is fascinated by the seemingly spontaneous moments in double portraits that amateur filmmakers make of themselves. She starts her visual es
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  • Reference

    Kamrau focuses on the thesaurus, a series of Dutch key words that make the archive accessible for its consulting visitors. The underlying verbal struc
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  • King of the Belgians

    Widely praised Belgian mockumentary and road movie by IFFR regulars Brosens and Woodworth. A Belgian king hears during a state visit to Turkey that Wa
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  • Beau Séjour

    A young girl wakes up one morning at the Beau Sejour hotel, covered with blood. She can’t remember what happened the night before and suddenly…
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  • Nora (Gentbrugge, 2000), Laurice & Nora (Gentbrugge, 2010), Nora (Gentbrugge, 2016)

    Garabedian documented his mother at her home while she is making sarma, a time-consuming, traditional Ottoman recipe based on vine leaves. The footage
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  • Grands travaux

    The directors spent a year at a Flemish-speaking vocational school in Brussels, where young students have come to learn a trade. The film both documen
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  • Quality Time

    In a self-assured and highly satirical debut, Daan Bakker portrays a series of plodding young men and their relationships to their worried parents. Us
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