Gust Van den Berghe
Gust VAN DEN BERGHE (1985) is a Brussels-based writer and director with a background in theatre, opera and dance. His first feature, Little Baby Jesus of Flandr, premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in 2010. He returned to Cannes the following year with his second film, Blue Bird, which was a blue-dipped tale shot in Togo. For his 2014 film, Lucifer, set in Mexico, he developed a circular film format called ‘tondoscope’. For his fourth film, The Magnet Man, he not only constructed all of the sets in an abandoned factory but also built his own traveling cinema, merging film with theatre.
In the meantime, he founded his own company, ‘a film house’, and started producing diverse short films like Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers (IFFR 2020) and Juanita Onzaga’s Tomorrow Is A Water Palace, which is in this year’s short film competition at IFFR. Van den Berghe is currently developing his fifth feature and works as a co-curator for the Museum M in Leuven, combining that with teaching and doing artistic research at the KASK School or Arts in Ghent.
Gust Van den Berghe at IFFR
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Tomorrow Is a Water Palace
Juanita Onzaga | 15' | Belgium | None
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET -
Sun Dog
Dorian Jespers | 21' | Belgium | World premiere
During the frozen arctic nights of Murmansk, Russia, the camera circles a young locksmith as he wanders from client to client through the concrete all -
Tomorrow Is a Water Palace
15' | Belgium | -
This Super 8-shot sensorial trip finds fluid form to describe the end of the Earth as we as humans know it.