Robbe De Hert

Hollywood on the river Scheldt

Overview of the history of cinema in Flanders.

Misstakes

André Mahy, an artistic but unemployed director, gets an offer to make a movie, the script of which appears to be a 'Kiekeboe' comic story entitled Misstakes. A fascinating dialogue develops between the fictional story of the family Kiekeboe and the real story of André Mahy and his film crew.

Koko Flanel

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.

Le Filet Américain

Political pamphlet in which the theories of Marxist Ernest Mandel are contrasted with the soothing parlance of political leader Paul van den Boeynants. Furthermore, the flow of 'left dogmatism' is alternated with cinematic and musical anecdotes.

Rubens, schilder en diplomaat

This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.

Potemkine 3

Recovering all of the intertitles of the Battleship Potemkin, Jean-Marie Buchet substitutes for the images of the film various views that he himself shot and which are unrelated to the initial work, thus joining the technique of diversion widely recommended and applied by the Situationists.

Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)

A group of flemish youth wants to start a revolution The drama is interspersed with documentary (type) footage.

The Enemies

The tribulations of an American GI during the Ardennes offensive and the people he encounters, keeps you riveted all the way through the unexpected ending. Great characters in a cold and snowy Belgium.

A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Golgotha

Short animation film about the crusade of a Hebrew figure who is looking for somewhere to lay down his cross.

19 december

A short war film