Movies: Valentijn Dhaenens

Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action....

During a heat wave, strange clouds start pouring down acid rain, wreaking devastation and panic throughout France. In a world teetering on the edge, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to confront and try to escape this climate catastrop...

Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II....

When her father dies at sea, Lena starts desperately looking for the cause, convinced a sea monster is to blame. Her relentless push against the tide reveals a tale of anger and grief, yet also of the strength and comfort the ocean provides....

As Brian cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up, and finds unexpected love and affection....

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria....

Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of th...

Ada has to choose. Confess to a murder she didn't commit, or plead her innocence before a jury....

A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation's nightmare....

Nine year old Gloria receives a cardboard city from her dad. Soon the city comes alive in her imagination. In this happy world she experiences crazy adventures, but it is also confronts her with the harsh reality of life....

In this frenzied tale about passionate affairs, vicious cycles and fresh blood, a disillusioned older woman is trying to hide her true nature from the young girl she is dating....

It's about a girl, S., who is dangling between Brussels and New York, boys and girls, love and hate, life and death. She has a mother, a father, a boyfriend and a girlfriend, but none of them are any good to her....

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?...

Emma is in a happy relationship with Jef. But she still meets up with her good friend Thomas to share a strange secluded weekend....

Life is what happens when you stop living for others and start living for yourself. This poignant tragicomic journey of courage follows Mona from early childhood, when she is inculcated to be a quiet, obedient presence in the world. She blossoms into...

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The night is blue and the moon is yellow. A renowned private eye is hired to observe a lonesome pianist....

For years, two couples have shared the perfect holiday home in the Alps and enjoyed each other’s company every summer. But when their teenage daughters are involved in a shocking accident, their long-standing friendship is put to a new, unthinkable t...

Being in a new relationship is never easy, but when children are involved, everything changes radically. The budding love between Joris and Eva gets into higher gear when their familes meet each other for the first time....

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