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- DirectorMichaël R. RoskamStarsMatthias SchoenaertsJeroen PercevalJeanne DandoySint-Truiden, Belgium. Jacky, a young cattle farmer who is constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.
- DirectorJoachim LafosseStarsIsabelle HuppertJérémie RenierYannick RenierA divorced mother of two boys reaching adulthood decides to sell their house, find love and get on with her life away from her husband and sons; a decision that will lead to an escalating fraternal dispute.
- DirectorFrédéric FonteyneStarsNathalie BayeSergi LópezJacques VialaA woman puts an ad in a magazine looking for a man to fulfill her fantasy of a stringless, anonymous pornographic affair.
- DirectorPierre-Paul RendersStarsBenoît VerhaertAylin YayMagali PinglautIn the near future, a man confined to his apartment for eight years by agoraphobia and fear of human contact is prescribed remote sex therapy.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsÉric CaravacaLucas BelvauxClaude SemalIn Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet desperation. All unemployed, either because they can't find work like Patrick or because they have been made redundant like Robert and Jean-Pierre, they try to forget their lot in the warm atmosphere of the place. One day, Marc, a newcomer, joins them. It soon appears that the man has just been released from prison and even if he is determined to go straight his presence suddenly inspires Robert : why not try criminality ?
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsFrançois MorelOrnella MutiGilbert MelkiIn the first installment in director Belvaux's trilogy, Alain's eccentric behavior causes his wife, Cecile, to hire a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsGilbert MelkiLucas BelvauxDominique BlancIn the final chapter of director Belvaux's trilogy, Pascal, now a disgraced cop, seeks redemption by capturing Bruno, a fugitive with a strange connection to Agnes, Pascal's heroin-addicted wife.
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsCatherine FrotLucas BelvauxDominique BlancAfter nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the cop on his tail. An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected.
- DirectorFrédéric FonteyneStarsEmmanuelle DevosClovis CornillacLaura SmetGilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
- DirectorGuillaume SenezStarsKacey Mottet KleinGalatéa BellugiCatherine SaléeThe story of two teenagers that are about to have a baby. After deciding they will keep the baby, they have to deal with their parents and also with their everyday life.
- DirectorDavid LambertStarsJean-Michel BalthazarJean-Bastien TinantCarmela LocantoreIn the early hours of every night, while his lover, Pierre is asleep upstairs, Nico is working with his father the baker. All of a sudden he falls to the ground.
- DirectorDavid LambertStarsMatila MalliarakisGuillaume GouixDavid SallesPaulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a bartender and bass guitar player originally from Albania. They become lovers. Confronted by his girlfriend Anka, Paulo finds himself out on the street. Despite Ilir's misgivings, Paulo moves in with him. One day, when Paulo promises that he will love Ilir for the rest of his life, Ilir leaves the city and doesn't return. A few days later, Paulo finds out that Ilir is in jail, and their relationship faces unexpected challenges.
- DirectorBernard BellefroidStarsJoffrey VerbruggenThierry HancisseSergi LópezAlexandre is fifteen and lives alone with his violent father. Beatings and blows are a staple of his daily life and push him to rebel against everything. To escape this relentless pattern, Alex takes refuge in rowing, his favorite sport.
- DirectorAlex StockmanStarsMatthias SchoenaertsTine Van den WyngaertAndrea BardosSamuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architecture firm. Shortly after her departure, Sam's computer is hacked. A series of rather dodgy IT-guys fail to protect his wireless network. The mysterious hacker seems intent on screwing up Samuel's life and his relationship with Mireille. Paranoia kicks in. Sam starts to suspect his neighbors and gets obsessed with WiFi-rays... Love, paranoia and two lovers separated by an ocean of communication devices.
- DirectorDelphine NoelsStarsMélanie DouteyJalil LespertFrançoise FabianLuce and Ulysse love each other. They live a full and happy life managing their own little veterinary clinic on the Atlantic coast. Luce is awaiting a happy event. The future looks good. At least at first sight. But when baby Rose arrives, nothing goes as planned. Luce is out of her depth before the constant crying of her baby. Why does the baby cry so? Is she trying to warn her about something? Could it be that the little family is in danger?
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsPili GroyneBenoît PoelvoordeCatherine DeneuveDid you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
- DirectorGuillaume SenezStarsFrançois CivilEric Herson-MacarelDominique BaeyensLionel, 17 years old, abused by his father, will become a dad.
- DirectorGuillaume SenezStarsAlain BellotSimon DuprezCatherine SaléeEvery day, Sophie sees her husband Augustin leaving the house to work for his small dairy farm. He gives all his strength to his work. Yet, since some time now, his farm production is not sufficient for his family to survive financially anymore. Sophie does not know the situation, but for how long ?
- DirectorLucas BelvauxStarsÉmilie DequenneAndré DussollierGuillaume GouixAn engaged but apolitical nurse gets involved in a far-right political party. Based on numerous recent events in France, it becomes about how Front National operates and how it is perceived by the French.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsÉmilie DequenneFabrizio RongioneAnne YernauxYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
- DirectorBavo DefurneStarsIsabelle HuppertKévin AzaïsJohan LeysenA forgotten European Song Contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.
- DirectorMichaël R. RoskamStarsMatthias SchoenaertsAdèle ExarchopoulosEric De StaerckeSet against the background of a brutal crime gang in Brussels, a tragic love story between Gigi, a high-flying gangster, and Bibi, a young racing driver with very upper-class roots.
- DirectorYves HinantJean LibonStarsAnne GruwezDavid DerumierSerge GraideIn this unapologetic and politically incorrect portrait, an extraordinary and eccentric Belgian judge takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life criminal investigations. The stranger-than-fiction documentary makes for a wild and riveting ride.
- DirectorOlivier MeysStarsXi QiWang XiChloe MaayanLina, an ambitious young woman, leaves her husband and son in China to go to Paris to build a brighter future for them. But once there nothing happens as planned and she locks herself into a world of lies so as not to give up on her dream.
- DirectorDavid LambertStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartJean-Michel BalthazarMonia ChokriAn Argentine hustler finds himself in a love triangle with a portly Belgian baker and the baker's comely employee.
- DirectorDavid LambertStarsJean-Luc CouchardVirginie HocqEric KabongoMartin, a 50-year-old widowed gay man living in Brussels, enters into a marriage of convenience with 20-year-old Congolese immigrant Tamara. Different in every way, these two people do all they can to convince the authorities that their marriage is real - and end up loving each other, each in their own way.
- DirectorDavid OelhoffenStarsMatthias SchoenaertsReda KatebAdel BencherifDriss and Manuel are two childhood friends who end up taking opposite paths: Manuel chose to embrace the thug life, while Driss becomes a cop. When Manuel's biggest deal goes terribly wrong, the two men meet again and come to realize they both need each other to survive in their worlds.
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsVictor PolsterArieh WorthalterOliver BodartA promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsJan DecleirGérard DesartheAntje de BoeckIn the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMatthias SchoenaertsLéa SeydouxPeter SimonischekThe 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
- DirectorOlivier Masset-DepasseStarsVeerle BaetensAnne CoesensMehdi NebbouWhen a sudden tragedy uproots the lives of two women and their families, they begin to question the relationships they once held so dear, in this psychological thriller from Olivier Masset-Depass.
- DirectorGuillaume SenezStarsRomain DurisBasile GrunbergerLena Girard VossOlivier is fighting with his comrades at work against injustices, but one night his wife Laura leaves him and the kids on 9 and 6. He must now meet another struggle and face up to his new responsibilities. Can he find a new balance?
- DirectorOlivier Masset-DepasseStarsAnne CoesensAlexandre GontcharovMilo Masset-DepasseA single mother of a thirteen-year-old boy from Belarus seeks refuge in Belgium with dreams of a better life, but instead, she will be incarcerated and separated from her son, risking deportation.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsSenne RouffaerBeata TyszkiewiczHector CamerlynckGovert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran's graduation, Govert decides that he needs to tell her.
- DirectorRoland VerhavertStarsJan DecleirAnsje BeentjesGaston VandermeulenIn 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.
- DirectorKatharina KastnerVilla Empain was a passion, a vision, a plan, a home, an artwork. It is a heartfelt dream that was abandoned. Villa Empain, today, looks like it did in the 1930s, but it has turned into another entity held by the same fundament. The film compares the life of Louis Empain and his creation. It bears witness to how a fixed idea, an architect's dream, disappears in favour of a living architecture.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsMarion CotillardFabrizio RongioneCatherine SaléeLiège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.
- DirectorEmmanuel van der AuweraThe Sky Is on Fire presents a hypothetical digital ruin of a virtual Miami street. This lifeless world resonates with the monologue of a Miami resident who reflects on the desire for immortality that drives our need to capture everything in an image. A critical reflection on our hyper-mediated reality.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsCoralie SeyrigDelphine SeyrigKeeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsVincent LindonAgathe RousselleGarance MarillierFollowing a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsYahya MahayniDea LianeKoen De BouwHis own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsIdir Ben AddiOlivier BonnaudMyriem AkheddiouA Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.
- DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie DequenneThe intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.