Belgium

A tortured artist is stuck in an abusive relationship with a woman, whose torments (demonstrated through nightmarish scenes of disembowelment) are slowly driving him mad.Read More »

A leather-clad man watches a woman’s apartment before entering it, cutting the phone cord, leaving a calling card, and confronting her with a razor in hand.Read More »

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.Read More »

Orgasm forms part of The ABCs of Death, a horror shorts anthology that unites a diverse collection of international directors in their ability to disgust, amuse, and – perhaps most importantly – provoke its audience. Orgasm certainly is provocative as the film documents a sadomasochistic sequence that includes the erotic asphyxiation of a woman that (perhaps) ends in her death.Read More »

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Tandis qu’un cinéma populaire, purement commercial, se développe tant à Bruxelles qu’en région flamande, Charles Dekeukeleire se lance dans l’aventure du long métrage en 1937, sur un scénario ambitieux du romancier Herman Teirlinck. Le cinéaste va le réaliser en Flandre avec des acteurs non professionnels, originaires de la campagne, et avec des fonds réunis par Henri d’Ursel auprès de riches mécènes. L’argument imaginé par Teilinck, issu de l’une de ses pièces et basé sur une approche expérimentale du Temps, relève du fantastique rural: un vagabond jette la panique dans une communauté villageoise en déclenchant une série d’événements insolites qui le font craindre comme sorcier, comme esprit malfaisant. Read More »

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15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable – how he feels about it.Read More »

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You cannot help but think of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre during a shot in The Ordeal where the camera spins across the leering, giggling faces of a twisted inbred family and their blood-covered, shrieking victim, and you really cannot help but think of it when they cut to an extreme close-up of the victim’s eye darting nervously back and forth. We’ve seen this movie before, where an innocent (played here by Laurent Lucas) has his car break down in the middle of nowhere. He is taken in by an eccentric innkeeper (Jackie Berroyer), and for a while The Ordeal is an intriguingly freakish character study of an older man falling in love with a younger man, believing him to be his dead wife. But their insinuating dialogue eventually gives way to a sadistic (and familiar) torture tale. Read More »

Charlie and Hannah, two girls in their mid-twenties, are strolling through the city of Antwerp, during an evening in March. Charlie is witty, inaccessible and – in her own words – fundamentally dialectic. Hannah is chatty, neurotic, always hungry and always in love.Read More »

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In a series of long held shots, men are observed performing simple tasks in real time, while on the soundtrack we hear excerpts from opera.Read More »