Bars, booze and music feature strongly in his films. There’s energy and dreams of America, but also a strong “Belgianness” that’s as sentimental as it is trashy. Above all, there’s lots of love. Bursting onto the international film scene in 2004 with Steve + Sky, 39-year-old Flemish filmmaker Felix Van Groeningen has established his voice, tone, sincerity and style so successfully that...
A man, a woman, an ailing child and music: a maelstrom of gut-wrenching emotions. 36-year-old Didier, a banjo player in a bluegrass group, worships all things American. Elise, 10 years his junior, owns a tattoo...
Feature film
BELGIUM | 111 minutes | 2012
Tracking the fortunes of two brothers who get swept up in their club’s success, Belgica is an intense look at the night-life scene. Jo, who’s single, has just opened a club in Ghent: the Belgica. His...
Feature film , Fiction
BELGIUM | 126 minutes | 2016
A writer looks back on his misspent youth in a crazy, freewheeling epic by turns hilarious and cynical. Born into arguably the worst family in Flanders, Gunther Strobbe, 13, and his father and uncles live with...
BELGIUM | 108 minutes | 2009
Borne by the wild energy of its leads, Steve + Sky casts love as fractious and fragmented, but always compelling. 22-year-old Steve had met wheelchair-bound Jean-Claude while in prison. Once outside,...
BELGIUM | 97 minutes | 2004
Felix Van Groeningen films a reunion of old friends with restraint but still allows for the emotions to shine through. Once upon a time in the Flemish town of Sint- Niklaas, there were four friends. Flamboyant...
BELGIUM | 100 minutes | 2007
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