The Arrival of Joachim Stiller

The Arrival of Joachim Stiller 1976

6.60

The film tells the story of Freek Groenevelt and Simone Marijnissen whose lives are taken over by Joachim Stiller.

1976

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short 1966

6.70

Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.

1966

Taxandria

Taxandria 1996

5.90

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

1996

Koko Flanel

Koko Flanel 1990

6.30

Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah. He falls in love, but she is way out of his reach.

1990

Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey

Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey 1988

1

Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture Belge group and worked on the fringes of the Cobra movement.

1988

De luitenant

De luitenant 1964

1

A film about friendship between forsaken boys.

1964

Invasion

Invasion 1980

10.00

Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

1980

One Day Pina Asked...

One Day Pina Asked... 1989

5.50

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on stage by behind the scenes.

1989

Achterland

Achterland 1994

1

Film version of the dance performance of the same name.

1994

The Warden of the Tomb

The Warden of the Tomb 1965

6.70

An nobleman question an aged grave warden, whose sickness seems to be due to the ghosts who haunt his workplace.

1965

The Little Shipowner

The Little Shipowner 1988

10.00

A film made for television, based on the book of the same name by Libera Carlier. A Flemish family decides to spend the summer holidays on de Schelde. Father Janssen buys a second-hand boat and together with his wife and two sons he sets sail. What follows is a sequence of pleasant moments and disappointments, watched by the sceptical mother Janssen.

1988

Het landhuis

Het landhuis 1989

1

1989. Hugo (Michael Pas) is in his first master's year economics. At the same time he is training for the 110 meter hurdles. And he has another sport: chasing girls. But when his latest catch (Antje De Boeck) suddenly disappears, he's obsessively starts looking for her. She seems to have ended up in an idyllic, utopian countryhouse.

1989

Precious

Precious 1991

1

A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past.

1991

Gombrowicz: Incidents, Adventures

Gombrowicz: Incidents, Adventures 1977

1

An actor pretends to be a writer. He sits in his office, reflects and puts words to paper, which are then performed by Jan Decorte. The text influences the situations shown and vice versa [Avila].

1977