Benoît Poelvoorde

biography:
Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor, comedian, and filmmaker, born on September 22, 1964, in Namur, Belgium. He first gained recognition with the cult film C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992), a darkly comedic mockumentary where he played a serial killer with unsettling charm. This film launched his career and established his unique blend of humor and intensity.

Throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Poelvoorde became a staple of Franco-Belgian cinema, starring in comedies like Les Randonneurs (1997), Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert (2001), and Podium (2004), where he portrayed an obsessive Claude François impersonator—a role that earned him a César nomination. His versatility allowed him to transition into more dramatic roles, such as Entre ses mains (2005) and Coco avant Chanel (2009), where he starred alongside Audrey Tautou.

In recent years, Poelvoorde has continued to balance absurdist comedy (Au poste !, Fumer fait tousser) with auteur-driven projects (Le Tout Nouveau Testament, Saint-Amour). His ability to oscillate between slapstick humor and introspective performances makes him one of the most distinctive actors in European cinema

Mr. Manatane's Notebooks

overview: Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets de Mr Manatane". More than 7 hours of knowing how to live (or die) by Mr Manatane!

character: Monsieur Manatane

original_name: Les Carnets de Monsieur Manatane

Jamais au grand jamais !

original_name: Jamais au grand jamais !

Represent

overview: An idealistic educator is inadvertently thrust into the French presidential race.

character: Éric Andréï

original_name: En place

Vivement dimanche

original_name: Vivement dimanche

A Town Called Panic

overview: Follows the everyday events of Cowboy, Indian and Horse in a small rural town as they go about their lives.

character: Steven (voice)

original_name: Panique au village

Quotidien

overview: Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Quotidien

C à vous

overview: Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

original_name: C à vous

Bonsoir !

original_name: Bonsoir !

Beau geste

original_name: Beau geste

Super Plan

original_name: Super Plan

Quelle époque !

overview: Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and the media. The set is designed as an arena where artists, polemicists, intellectuals, politicians, top athletes, and powerful figures come together. Permanent guest Christophe Dechavanne can intervene at any time during the show. Comedian Philippe Caverivière is also present with a segment dedicated to the political week and another devoted to celebrity news and social media.

original_name: Quelle époque !

Jamais au grand jamais !

job: Writer

department: Writing

Mr. Manatane's Notebooks

job: Creator

department: Creator

Français

biography:
Benoît Poelvoorde, né le 22 septembre 1964 à Namur, est un acteur et humoriste belge.

Révélé durant les années 1990 par le film culte belge C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992), la série humoristique Les Carnets de Monsieur Manatane (1997) et la comédie française Les Randonneurs (1997), il s'impose durant les années 2000 comme une valeur sûre du cinéma franco-belge.

Il s'impose parallèlement dans un registre dramatique, d'abord sous la direction de la réalisatrice Anne Fontaine. Il donne en effet la réplique à Isabelle Carré pour la romance Entre ses mains (2005), Audrey Tautou pour le biopic Coco avant Chanel (2009) et Isabelle Huppert pour la comédie dramatique Mon pire cauchemar (2010). Ses performances dans les deux premiers films lui valent de nouvelles nominations aux Césars.

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Français

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Український

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普通话

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普通话

伯努瓦·波尔沃德

biography: 伯努瓦·波尔沃德 Benoît Poelvoorde（1964年9月22日出生于比利时纳穆尔）是一位比利时演员和喜剧演员。

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貝諾特波維德

biography: 伯努瓦·波爾沃德 貝諾特波維德（1964 年 9 月 22 日出生於比利時納穆爾）是一位比利時演員和喜劇演員。

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title: Smoking Causes Coughing

overview: After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.

character: Lézardin

original_title: Fumer fait tousser

title: Asterix at the Olympic Games

overview: Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

character: Brutus

original_title: Astérix aux Jeux olympiques

title: Man Bites Dog

overview: The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.

character: Ben

original_title: C'est arrivé près de chez vous

title: Narco

overview: Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.

character: Lenny Barr

original_title: Narco

title: Cowboy

overview: Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that still inspires him is to find and film Tony Sacchi, the revolutionary hero of his youth. Through this adventure, Daniel wants to rehabilitate the passionate and committed young man he once was. But, unfortunately for him, Sacchi has become a cynical gigolo. At the end of this tragicomic epic, will Daniel Piron finally understand that he must accept his disillusionment in order to find himself again?

character: Daniel Piron

original_title: Cowboy

title: Coco Before Chanel

overview: Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

character: Étienne Balsan

original_title: Coco avant Chanel

title: Louise-Michel

overview: In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.

character: Guy l'ingénieur

original_title: Louise-Michel

title: Adieu Paris

overview: An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...

character: Benoît

original_title: Adieu Paris

title: The Carriers Are Waiting

overview: Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse and a long list of curious ideas, and his wife and children must often bear the brunt of his eccentricities. Roger works as a reporter, a job he doesn't like which doesn't pay especially well, either. One day, Roger learns an area business association is sponsoring a contest for a family that can break a world record, with the grand prize being a new car. Suddenly, Roger gets a brainstorm -- if his son can open and shut a door 40,000 times in 24 hours, the car will be theirs. 15-year-old Michel, however, is not at all happy to have been drafted into this new responsibility, especially when dad builds a practice door in the backyard and finds a trainer to teach Michel how to open and close it with greatest efficiency.

character: Roger

title: Aaltra

overview: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.

title: The Return of James Battle

overview: James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.

original_title: Atomik Circus - Le Retour de James Bataille

title: The Green Shutters

overview: The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.

title: One Fine Day

overview: François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.

title: Jean-Philippe

overview: A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.

character: Bernard Frédéric, double of Claude François

title: Hikers

overview: A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.

title: Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

overview: In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.

title: Hikers in Saint-Tropez

overview: Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on the Côte d’Azur. To their surprise, who should they meet in St-Tropez but Eric, the guide-from-Hell who transformed their last holiday into a nightmare and whom they swore never to see again...

title: A Town Called Panic

overview: Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

title: Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

overview: The legendary Palmashow series is back! Have a wonderful and hilarious summer thanks to the unmissable sketches from the duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais.

title: Beauties at War

overview: A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

title: Podium

overview: Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and has a son. He used to have another profession: being French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him happy: the applause.

title: Two Worlds

overview: A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.

title: The Other Dumas

overview: Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives.  The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.

title: Akoibon

overview: A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.

title: In His Hands

overview: In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.

title: Beating Hearts

overview: Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.

title: Mammuth

overview: Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...

title: Park Benches

overview: As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.

title: Kill Me Please

overview: Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.

title: Doors of Glory

overview: A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

title: Dead Weight

overview: After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

title: Laughter and Punishment

overview: French director Isabelle Doval directs her husband, popular comedic actor José Garcia, in the comedy Rire et Chatiment (Laughter and Punishment). Vincent (Garcia) is a popular physician whose aggressive need to be funny and get people's attention annoys his girlfriend, Camille (Doval), to the point that she leaves him. He begins to suspect she might have been onto something when his behavior begins causing people to die.

title: Charlie Says

overview: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.

title: En chantier, monsieur Tanner !

overview: Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had already started. He decides to continue the renovation and brings in several contractors who give him quotes for amounts that exceed his financial capabilities.

title: The Political Life of the Belgians

overview: We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the results of the elections are published.

title: Romantics Anonymous

overview: What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.

title: The Big Night

overview: An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall.  Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.

title: Nothing to Declare

overview: During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

title: Panique tous courts

overview: Cowboy and Indian are leaving on a luxury cruise, but they've got caught up. They have totally forgotten that today is back to school day! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends desperately find themselves on the school benches being put through the monotony of class.  To liven the start of the school year up and to welcome the new geography teacher, the head teacher organises a big contest. The laureates will get to spend a day on the Moon together with M. Youri. Cowboy and Indian are of course ready to do everything to win.

title: My Worst Nightmare

overview: Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...

title: Mama's Lover

overview: A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

title: Modèle déposé

title: Tied

overview: A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

title: A Wonderful Girl

overview: Mimi is 29 years old and still dreaming about a job she could get. She meets Paul, a sidelined lawyer, as she decides to seek employment. Together, they will defend Christophe, a conman who proclaims his innocence.

title: Twice Upon a Time

overview: Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called - Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of France to discover that the boys parents are exactly like his parents, only to know that his life is payed over again just 30 years post. He then chooses to be the guest in his own life, while he has a life to live at hand.

title: Normal

overview: 14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his wardrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home.  Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.

title: A Place on Earth

overview: Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.

title: The Art of Nothing

overview: Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town, in order to design a masterpiece that will finally earn him glory and eternal recognition. But his meeting with local artists, from the warm Bagnoule to the skillful Cécile, will somewhat make him deviate from his path, and bring him face to face with his deepest dream: that of simply being a happy man.

title: The Big Bad Wolf

overview: Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!

title: Zebra Stripes

overview: José is a football agent who goes to Ivory Coast to spot young talents in football. He is a braggart , who willingly sleeps with Gigi , a beautiful African woman who loves the luxury he offers her... One day, José spots Yaya, a street boy with the potential of a champion, and brings him to Belgium. Will Yaya be José's reward? Between the poor neighborhoods of Abidjan and Sporting Club of Charleroi, the cultural "gap" is brutal... and reserves surprises.

title: The Price of Fame

overview: A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

title: Le Palmier

title: 3 Hearts

overview: A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

title: Mad in Belgium

overview: A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.

title: No C4 for Daniel Daniel

overview: A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.

title: Beware of the Ravens

overview: Michel has an appointment at the administrative city.

title: The Brand New Testament

overview: God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

title: How to Make a Killing

overview: Michel and Cathy, wed for longer than they can remember, lead a quiet but monotonous life in the mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two drug dealers and revealing a €2 million loot in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover up the incident and keep the money! But their plan leads them to stumble upon an unexplained trail of dead bodies. More used to being honest than crooked, Michel and Cathy’s clumsy cover-up efforts soon put an interfering inspector hot on their trail.

title: Family for Rent

overview: Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children. Paul-André then proposes a totally above the board contract to rent the family in exchange for him paying off Violette's debts. For better and for worse..

title: Lucky Star

overview: In 1940, in France, Jean Chevalin lives with his family in great poverty after deserting the army. Convinced that some people manage better than others, he decides to pretend to be Jewish in order to receive help from smugglers and reach the free zone. This ruse will lead his family on a journey that will gradually dismantle his prejudices.

title: Saint Amour

overview: Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.

title: Savages

overview: In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.

title: The Jews

overview: Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.

title: A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!

overview: A Native American and a cowboy are extremely eager to get their Christmas presents. Overwhelmed by excitation, they accidentally destroy the horse's decorations while fighting.

title: Mr. Manatane's notebooks

title: An Indian Tale

overview: The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out of nowhere in front of Pierre, a single and grumpy Frenchman.

title: Le Signaleur

overview: Two boys arrive at the hospice in a small village looking for someone who could act as a signalman for the bike race that will pass through the village the next day.

title: Sink or Swim

overview: 40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

title: Adoration

overview: Paul lives with his mother in the private clinic of doctor Loisel, deeply hidden in the woods. Paul likes to roam the forest and observe nature. One day Gloria, a schizophrenic teenager of around fifteen years old, arrives, and Paul falls in love immediately.

title: Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse

overview: For the Shadoks, panic strikes. A mysterious disease infects these curious creatures. Everyone talks about it, giving their various opinions, but all discussions lead to fighting. They used to spend their time enjoying, now it’s just a constant brawl. Professor Shadoko prepares a vaccination against this terrible disease.

title: Keep an Eye Out

overview: Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?

title: White as Snow

overview: Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”

title: Raoul Taburin

overview: If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of France. But Raoul has a terrible secret: he has never been able to keep his balance on a bike without using stabilisers. His childhood and teenage years were spent trying to overcome his flaw - in vain. All attempts to tell his secret have also failed. Nobody believes him. When photographer Hervé Figougne moves to Saint Céron, the two men become fast friends. And when Figougne offers to photograph Raoul riding a racing bike along a mountain precipice, the moment of truth has arrived. He does all he can to avoid the photo shoot. But everything goes against him and he finally has to accept his destiny. “At least”, he thinks, “people will have to believe me”. But for Raoul Taburin, things are never that simple...

title: Father & Sons

overview: Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...

title: A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic!

overview: Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today is the first day of school! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends are back at their desks in school listening as the teacher drones on and on.

original_title: Panique au village : La Rentrée des classes

title: Venice Calling

overview: Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him - This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile. This is the story of an initiatory and incredible journey where life often takes unawares, but where Venice, it will be at the rendezvous.

title: Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

title: How I Became a Superhero

overview: Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.

title: Delete History

overview: In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family allowance, is afraid of losing her son’s respect because of a sex tape. Bertrand can’t say no to advertising calls and is fighting to protect his daughter, who is being bullied online. Christine, after losing everything because of her addiction to TV series, wonders why her rating as an Uber driver is not taking off. These three lone fighters are incapable of finding a solution to their problems on their own — until they join forces to declare war on the tech giants.

title: Panique au village : La Foire agricole

overview: Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on his head. He wakes up with no idea where he hid the tickets. So begins a race against time for them two to find the passes before it's too late.

title: L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul !

original_title: L'Année des Guignols - Du cul, du cul, du cul !

title: My Father's Stories

overview: Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?

title: A Town Called Panic: Double Fun

overview: Cowboy and Indian, with Horse's help, plan Christmas Panic and Back to School Panic, stealing a neighbor's yule log and discovering a sodium-packed world of pig cops.

title: Just for Laughs

overview: Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux, follows the covert sexual misadventures of the troubled foursome.

title: Inexorable

overview: Desperately seeking inspiration for the follow-up novel to his bestseller "Inexorable", Marcel Bellmer moves in his wife's old family mansion with his family.

title: L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates

original_title: L'Année des Guignols - Les Voleurs de patates

title: Do You Do You Saint-Tropez

overview: Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!

title: The Colors of Fire

overview: February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.

title: A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays

overview: School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on an adventure. But their first try is a disaster. With the help of some animals, they finally manage to launch their proud vessel and everything is ready for their departure. But of course, nothing goes to plan... And the catastrophes come thick and fast.

original_title: Panique au village : Les Grandes Vacances

title: Le Pied

overview: This is the terrifying story of a desperate foot. A reluctant accomplice of a man who has fallen into horror, he takes advantage of a moment when the man has dozed off to record a message for anyone who will listen. It's the ultimate S.O.S. from a foot who has no other option but to reveal the appalling truth to the world.

title: A Day in the Life of French Cinema

overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

title: Démodé

title: I Love Peru

overview: In the relentless pursuit of success, a quirky actor leaves behind his closest allies. Alone facing himself, he is struck by a disturbing vision. Off to Peru for a spiritual journey.

title: Fausse note

title: Pourquoi pas nous ?

title: Le Serpent majuscule

title: 5H48, Place des Martyrs

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

title: Modèle déposé

title: No C4 for Daniel Daniel

title: No C4 for Daniel Daniel

title: Modèle déposé

title: Mr. Manatane's notebooks

title: Smoking Causes Coughing

title: Asterix at the Olympic Games

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Narco

title: Cowboy

title: Coco Before Chanel

title: Louise-Michel

title: Adieu Paris

title: The Carriers Are Waiting

title: Aaltra

title: The Return of James Battle

title: The Green Shutters

title: One Fine Day

title: Jean-Philippe

title: Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

title: Hikers

title: Hikers in Saint-Tropez

title: A Town Called Panic

title: Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

title: Beauties at War

title: Podium

title: Two Worlds

title: The Other Dumas

title: Akoibon

title: In His Hands

title: Beating Hearts

title: Mammuth

title: Park Benches

title: Kill Me Please

title: Doors of Glory

title: Dead Weight

title: Laughter and Punishment

title: Charlie Says

title: En chantier, monsieur Tanner !

title: The Political Life of the Belgians

title: Romantics Anonymous

title: The Big Night

title: Nothing to Declare

title: Panique tous courts

title: My Worst Nightmare

title: Mama's Lover

title: Modèle déposé

title: Tied

title: A Wonderful Girl

title: Twice Upon a Time

title: Normal

title: A Place on Earth

title: The Art of Nothing

title: The Big Bad Wolf

title: Zebra Stripes

title: The Price of Fame

title: Le Palmier

title: 3 Hearts

title: Mad in Belgium

title: No C4 for Daniel Daniel

title: Beware of the Ravens

title: The Brand New Testament

title: How to Make a Killing

title: Family for Rent

title: Lucky Star

title: Saint Amour

title: Savages

title: The Jews

title: A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!

title: Mr. Manatane's notebooks

title: An Indian Tale

title: Le Signaleur

title: Sink or Swim

title: Adoration

title: Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse

title: Keep an Eye Out

title: White as Snow

title: Raoul Taburin

title: Father & Sons

title: Venice Calling

title: Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

title: How I Became a Superhero

title: Delete History

title: Panique au village : La Foire agricole

title: My Father's Stories

title: A Town Called Panic: Double Fun

title: Just for Laughs

title: Inexorable

title: Do You Do You Saint-Tropez

title: The Colors of Fire

title: Le Pied

title: A Day in the Life of French Cinema

title: Démodé

title: I Love Peru

title: Fausse note

title: Pourquoi pas nous ?

title: Le Serpent majuscule

title: 5H48, Place des Martyrs

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Man Bites Dog

title: Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle

title: Modèle déposé

title: No C4 for Daniel Daniel

title: No C4 for Daniel Daniel

title: Modèle déposé

title: Mr. Manatane's notebooks


Bouli Lanners

biography:
Philippe "Bouli" Lanners (born 20 May 1965 in Moresnet-Chapelle, in the Redeemed Cantons near Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian actor, author and film director. He is also known as a painter.

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Voices of Liberation

overview: The writings and eyewitness accounts of wartime participants help trace the story of Europe's liberation during WWII in this historical docuseries.

character: Self

original_name: Voices of Liberation

original_language: en

Mr. Manatane's Notebooks

overview: Poetry lovers, defenders of good taste, dear hunters... you are here at home! Find Benoit Poelvorde at the top of his madness in the complete "Carnets de Mr Manatane". More than 7 hours of knowing how to live (or die) by Mr Manatane!

original_language: fr

Interns

overview: Following sanitary measures, the doctors holding the internal medicine service at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital find themselves confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a medical examiner, who do not yet know each other, will have to work together to manage the service and the patients alone. But the quarantine continues...

character: Olivier Brun

original_name: Hippocrate

Cannes Festival

original_name: Cannes Festival

A Town Called Panic

overview: Follows the everyday events of Cowboy, Indian and Horse in a small rural town as they go about their lives.

character: Facteur / Simon (voice)

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

original_name: Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

Les Brumes

overview: A mute survivor and an exiled cop race against time on a fog-bound island to identify a vanished killer before he strikes again.

original_name: Les Brumes

Cérémonie des César

overview: The César Awards are cinematographic awards created in 1976 and presented annually in Paris to professionals of the 7th art in various categories to recognize the best French productions. They are often cited as the French equivalent of the Oscars in the United States.

character: Self - Presenter

original_name: Cérémonie des César

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

Bouli Lanners

biography: Philippe „Bouli“ Lanners (* 20. Mai 1965 in Moresnet-Chapelle, im Kanton der Erlösten nahe Lüttich, Belgien) ist ein belgischer Schauspieler, Autor und Filmregisseur. Er ist auch als Maler bekannt.

Français

biography:
Philippe Lanners, dit Bouli Lanners, est un comédien, scénariste, metteur en scène et réalisateur belge et luxembourgeois francophone.  Il naît le 20 mai 1965 à Moresnet-Chapelle, non loin du tripoint de la frontière avec l’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas et grandit à La Calamine, une des neuf communes de langue allemande de Belgique, située sur la frontière et ancien territoire neutre (entre 1816 et 1919).

Après un bref passage à l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège, il entame une vie faite de petits boulots et de débrouille, tout en continuant à peindre. Régisseur pour les Snuls, ceux-ci l'emploient occasionnellement comme acteur et peu à peu en font un personnage récurrent et populaire. Il commence alors sa carrière d'acteur en Belgique et en France.

En 1999, il écrit et réalise Travellinckx, un court métrage road-movie en super 8 noir et blanc, qui est projeté en festivals. Deux ans plus tard, le court métrage Muno est sélectionné à Cannes, à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs.

Son premier long métrage, Ultranova, est sorti en 2005 et primé au Festival de Berlin. Il tourne son deuxième long métrage Eldorado à l'été 2007, film qui sera sélectionné pour la Quinzaine des réalisateurs à Cannes 2008, où il décroche le prix Regards jeunes, le prix du label Europa Cinemas du meilleur film européen de la semaine de la critique et le prix FIPRESCI. L'année suivante, le film est nommé pour le César du meilleur film étranger

Son troisième long métrage, Les Géants, a reçu deux prix à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs du Festival de Cannes 2011, le prix de la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques et le prix Art Cinema Award, remis par la Confédération internationale des cinémas d'art et d'essai.

Les Premiers, les Derniers, son quatrième long métrage, est sélectionné par le Panorama au festival de Berlin en 2016 et récolte deux prix. Il obtient le prix Label Europa Cinema du meilleur film Européen et le prix œcuménique.

En 2019 il écrit et réalise Nobody Has To Know, son cinquième long métrage qu'il tourne en Écosse, sur l'île de Lewis, en langue anglaise avec Michelle Fairley dans le rôle titre. Il s'associe à Tim Mielants pour assurer ensemble la co-réalisation sur le plateau.  Le film est en sélection officielle au Toronto International Film Festival.

Parallèlement, il continue de peindre et donne des cours à l'Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion à Bruxelles.

Il habite à Liège avec son épouse Élise Ancion, scénariste, metteuse en scène et costumière.

Source: Article "Bouli Lanners" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

character: Cochon / Simon / Facteur (voice)

title: Asterix at the Olympic Games

overview: Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

character: King Aderlas

title: Cowboy

overview: Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that still inspires him is to find and film Tony Sacchi, the revolutionary hero of his youth. Through this adventure, Daniel wants to rehabilitate the passionate and committed young man he once was. But, unfortunately for him, Sacchi has become a cynical gigolo. At the end of this tragicomic epic, will Daniel Piron finally understand that he must accept his disillusionment in order to find himself again?

character: Debaest

title: Louise-Michel

overview: In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.

character: Michel Pinchon

title: Aaltra

overview: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.

character: Finnish Singer

original_title: Aaltra

title: The Villain

overview: With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.

character: Nick Korazy

original_title: Le Vilain

title: Locked Out

overview: Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...

character: Youssouf

original_title: Enfermés dehors

title: A Town Called Panic

overview: Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.

character: Postman / Simon / Cow (voice)

original_title: Panique au village

title: White Snow

overview: Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.

character: Simon

original_title: Blanc comme neige

title: Eldorado

overview: Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.

character: Yvan

original_title: Eldorado

title: 25 Degrees in Winter

overview: An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter.

character: (uncredited)

original_title: 25 degrés en hiver

title: Mammuth

overview: Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...

character: Le recruteur

original_title: Mammuth

title: Kill Me Please

overview: Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.

character: M. Vidal

original_title: Kill Me Please

title: Arlette

overview: An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...

character: Émile le routier

original_title: Arlette

title: Dead Man's Hand

overview: Jean V., a forty-year-old bailiff, practises his profession with talent, but without humanity. He is married to Nicole, a 35-year-old consumer in crisis. Jean regularly calls on the services of George, a chronic debtor and folkloric character, who helps him with his "little tricks". Incidentally, George restores Nicole's taste for buying. One day, Jean meets Eddy, a policeman who accompanies him on his round of seizures. But a dispute between them escalates out of all proportion. Pushed to the limit, Jean decides to work with George on a dark plot to teach the cop a lesson.

character: Eddy

original_title: Petites misères

title: The Night of the 12th

overview: Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara's complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim's life soon turns into a haunting obsession.

character: Marceau

original_title: La Nuit du 12

title: Chicas

overview: Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.

character: Maurice

original_title: Chicas

title: The Big Night

overview: An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall.  Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.

character: Le Vigile

original_title: Le Grand Soir

title: Nothing to Declare

overview: During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

character: Bruno Vanuxem

original_title: Rien à déclarer

title: Alien Adventure

overview: The movie begins with an extraterrestrial humanoid species, the Glegoliths, wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown planet (which turns out to be Earth), the Glegolith leader (Cyrillus) sends two "manned" probes to the surface to determine if it is suitable for colonisation.  The scouts in the probes think they have arrived at a great city, but in fact they have arrived at a new amusement park that is not yet open to the public. They proceed to explore four amusement rides.

character: (voice)

original_title: Alien Adventure

title: Special Treatment

overview: Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.

character: Xavier Demestre

original_title: Sans queue ni tête

title: A Real Job

overview: Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school. Without training nor experience, and facing a declining public educational system, he discovers how tough this job can be. Hopefully, his supportive and committed colleagues will lead him to take a fresh look at the profession.

character: Benjamin's Father

title: Second Tour

overview: A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.

title: Bunker Paradise

overview: Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One evening, he meets John Deveau, a wealthy and perverse man, and his gang, who draw him into a world of luxurious parties among the wealthy. Charmed and believing he has made it, Mimmo thinks that this world wants him. In reality, he falls into the perverse trap set by John and his gang for their own amusement.

title: En territoire indien

overview: Jean-Claude, a bent night-club owner, on his way escaping to Mexico, unfortunately had an accident with a young couple on a motorcycle. But Cédric has witnessed the accident.

title: Hand of the Headless Man

overview: Eva, a 25-year-old woman, is an Olympic diver: a champion. Her father, Peter, is her coach. During a competition, Eva climbs up to the 10-meter platform. She leaps off when suddenly she sees a shadow in the pool. Terrified by this vision, Eva suddenly loses her balance, her head hits the diving board, and she falls. Blackout. When Eva regains consciousness, she is in the hospital. Naturally, her father is at her bedside. For him, the accident is already in the past: the Olympic Games are approaching, and it is essential not to miss the qualifiers. But Eva doesn't see it that way. The accident has changed her and her life. While she was in a coma, her brother disappeared. So she decides to force her memory to remember, to break through the wall of silence her father has built around her. Eva will emerge from this experience deeply shaken. So will her family, and nothing will ever be the same again.

title: Rust and Bone

overview: Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

title: Headwinds

overview: Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.

title: Smoke Signals

overview: 2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member of the European Parliament José Bové, maverick politician and prominent figure of the environmental party, suspects a setup by the tobacco manufacturer Swedish Match, potentially involving the President of the European Commission, José Barroso. Standing alone against all odds, he decides to investigate and unravel this story, which shook the foundations of the entire European institutions.

title: 11.6

overview: In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.

title: 9 Month Stretch

overview: Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals.  But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the prosecution charged with an atrocious attack!  Ariane doesn't remember any of what has happened, so she has no idea what to expect...

title: Tour de Force

overview: François decides to participate in the Tour de France alone, inspiring a wave of media enthusiasm, much to the chagrin of the Tour's pros.

title: Paint it Gold

overview: Arthur, a passionate Parisian art gallery owner, represents Renzo, a longtime friend, and radical figurative painter stuck in an existential crisis. Suffering from painter's block, dejected, Renzo slumps into utter boredom. To save themselves, Arthur develops a bold plan to bring them both back into the limelight.

title: Brotherhood of Tears

overview: Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his daily mission consists of delivering a briefcase exactly where he is told. The only rule being to never open it. These deliveries will bring him to meet weird people in strange places. Gradually, his cop instinct resurfaces...

title: Lulu in the Nude

overview: After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.

title: Toto the Hero

overview: 80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.

title: Madame Edouard

overview: In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.

title: La part de l’ombre

overview: On February 7, 1944, the day of the opening of a major exhibition of his work, the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek disappeared. More than sixty years later, an investigation reveals his strange fate.

title: Les Saigneurs

title: Le Palmier

title: The Perfect Boyfriend

overview: The film is set in a world where androids have replaced humans for menial tasks, leading unskilled humans to pretend to be robots in order to get a job.

title: Nicholas on Holiday

overview: It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.

title: Jours de chance

title: Mad in Belgium

overview: A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.

title: All Cats Are Grey

overview: Paul is a chubby kind-‐hearted amateur detective. Dorothy is an intense upper class teenager. Paul is into quoting Sherlock Holmes and watching Derrick. Dorothy is into punk clothing and hating her mother. Paul is forty three, Dorothy is sixteen, and the only thing that links them is Paul’s knowledge that he is Dorothy’s biological father… over time, this has grown into a one way relationship with Paul spying on Dorothy as she grew up, always from a safe distance…They would never have met if Dorothy hadn’t heard of Paul’s amateur detective skills. She wants to use him to find her father…

title: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

overview: Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.

title: I'm Dead But I Have Friends

overview: Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour ...

title: April and the Extraordinary World

overview: It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

title: The First, the Last

overview: Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...

title: Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

overview: Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.

original_title: Astérix & Obélix : Au service de Sa Majesté

title: Heal the Living

overview: The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

title: Raw

overview: Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

title: The Ordinary People

overview: The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercise for company executives. Gradually, rumours about the upcoming acquisition of the company start to emerge and everyone finds themselves trying to save their place.

title: A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!

overview: A Native American and a cowboy are extremely eager to get their Christmas presents. Overwhelmed by excitation, they accidentally destroy the horse's decorations while fighting.

title: A Very Long Engagement

overview: Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

title: Feathers in My Head

overview: Jean-Pierre and his wife Blanche live a quiet but happy life in their small Belgian town. But their world is shattered when their young son goes missing. In the aftermath of the family tragedy, the couple's own relationship starts to deteriorate. As it gets worse, Blanche begins to lose touch with reality, believing that their son is still with them...

title: Avida

overview: The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.

title: When the Sea Rises

overview: An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.

title: Spit’n’Split

overview: Nothing could be cooler than a rock-band on tour. Hordes of screaming fans who want to give up their virginity for an autograph, free drugs in all sizes, colors and kicks, luxury hotels that loose a star after our rock gods have passed through it like a tornado and sold out theaters and stadiums. The members of The Experimental Tropic Blues Band would give up one of their balls to be able to experience that one day. Everything’s better than these endless trips on the road in a tour bus that should have fallen apart decades ago, cabinets filled with aspirin to battle cheap beer hangovers, dark and smelly theaters with clogged toilets and a few lost spectators, getting paid in candy bars and not one horny groupie in sight. It certainly can’t get any worse than that? Just wait and see!

title: Bloody Milk

overview: Pierre, in his thirties, is a breeder of dairy cattle. His life revolves around his farm, his veterinarian sister and his parents whose livestock he took over. As the first cases of a zoonotic outbreak are reported in France, Pierre discovers that one of his animals is infected. He cannot cope with the perspective of losing the whole herd. They are everything he has and he will do whatever it takes to save them.

title: Le Signaleur

overview: Two boys arrive at the hospice in a small village looking for someone who could act as a signalman for the bike race that will pass through the village the next day.

title: Above the Law

overview: Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find themselves involved in a criminal case of thirty years. It seems that the crazy killers are back.

title: The Carriers Are Waiting

overview: Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse and a long list of curious ideas, and his wife and children must often bear the brunt of his eccentricities. Roger works as a reporter, a job he doesn't like which doesn't pay especially well, either. One day, Roger learns an area business association is sponsoring a contest for a family that can break a world record, with the grand prize being a new car. Suddenly, Roger gets a brainstorm -- if his son can open and shut a door 40,000 times in 24 hours, the car will be theirs. 15-year-old Michel, however, is not at all happy to have been drafted into this new responsibility, especially when dad builds a practice door in the backyard and finds a trainer to teach Michel how to open and close it with greatest efficiency.

title: The Missing Half

overview: Claire and Pierre's marriage hits the skids after Claire, pregnant with twins, feels that one embryo is crushing the other and decides to abort half the pregnancy.

title: Dog

overview: Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.

title: Real Love

overview: Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise his two adolescent daughters by himself, while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. 14-year-old Frida blames her father for their mother's leaving and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. 17-year-old Niki will soon leave home. Until then, she lives the good life. Mario can't help but lose the women he loves. Yet they must all agree to let one another go.

title: Third Wedding

overview: Martin, a homosexual widower and whimsical of fifty years, sees itself propose to contract a marriage white with a Congolese of twenty years, Tamara. These two beings that everything separates are going to believe in their love against the authorities of migration and to force to pretend.

title: Double Plus Ungood

overview: In 2018, in a country that doesn't exist, Dago Cassandra, a small time crook, returns to his kingdom after fifteen years in exile, invested with a divine mission to kill the twelve apostles of Lucifer, represented by the pyramid of power - An extremely dangerous mission, especially when their is a price on your head.

title: Patrick

overview: 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 the camping grounds.

title: Wide Load

overview: This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake.

title: Notre Dame

overview: Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm.

title: Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel

title: On the road again, le cinéma de Bouli Lanners

overview: Documentary about belgian actor and director Bouli Lanners

original_title: On the road again, le cinéma de Bouli Lanners

title: The Return of James Battle

overview: James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.

title: Amerigo and the New World

overview: How did America get the Name we Use Today, ... Amerigo Vespucci, ... The name on the Map he had made for the New World, ... An Avid Explorer and Merchant who made a name for himself via an Oops.

title: Delete History

title: Panique au village : La Foire agricole

title: Bye Bye Morons

overview: When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.

title: A Town Called Panic: Double Fun

character: Père Noël / Facteur / Simon (voice) (archive footage)

title: Nobody Has to Know

overview: After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.

title: Love Song for Tough Guys

overview: In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces that help these characters to be themselves and give meaning to their lives. A tribute to poetry, theatre and art.

title: There Is No Love Without Stories

overview: Monique is a single mother who lives with her son Olivier in a town of North of France.She wanted to have a child and the father went away.Besides Monique is taxi driver.Olivier doesn't feel well with his mother.In the school his neighbor Julien begins to ask him about his father: Olivier answers that first that is father is dead , but later that his father is a spy who has a boat. Then Julien asks about his mother, Olivier answers that she is a top: as Olivier has to go meet his mother in a supermarket, Julien and Olivier see a model: Olivier goes to the model and asks her to give him a kiss. She gives him a kiss on the cheeks and Julien believes that the supermarket model is the mother of Olivier.

title: Saddam Hussein Is Alive

overview: Saddam Hussein is alive and well and he lives in Brussels.

title: Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

original_title: Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

title: Le Faux Soir

overview: November 1943, German-occupied Belgium. In the face of grave danger if caught, the Independent Front, a Belgian resistance organization, publishes a spoof edition of Le Soir to satirize the German occupiers and the nation’s main propaganda-controlled newspaper. Le Faux Soir is considered the first act of media hacking in history.

title: Le vilain : Instantanés

title: Le Pantalon

overview: Lucien is a young soldier in the French army during the First World War. Recently married and with a young daughter, his only aim is to get through the war unscathed and get back to his wife and daughter. But this world is turned upside down by a pair of trousers.

title: A Dog of Flanders

overview: Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello's mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.

title: Pretend I'm Not Here

overview: Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they discover his identity and draw him in, will this release him from his solitude, or confirm in his mind that he will always be the outsider?

title: Krieg

title: Eldorado

title: Ultranova

overview: A 25-year-old real estate agent allows some salacious rumours about his past to run rife to attract the attentions of two women.

title: The Giants

overview: Brothers Seth and Zak, ages 15 and 13 ¾, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money, they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned...

title: The Giants

title: Nobody Has to Know

title: Non Wallonie, ta culture n'est pas morte

original_title: Non Wallonie, ta culture n'est pas morte

title: Muno

overview: Raphaël, a young radio intern, returns to his rural hometown of Muno after a young African resident is violently assaulted and hospitalized. He plans to report on racism in the community by gathering interviews. But amid reconnecting with childhood acquaintances, technical hitches, and collective apathy, he realizes that the people he once knew have changed—and largely don’t care.

title: The First, the Last

title: The First, the Last

title: Eldorado

title: Travellinckx

overview: Didier, 39, an unemployed artist, depressive and hypochondriac, is persuaded he is going to die within one or two months because of the asbestos contained in his radiator. That's why he decides, as a testament destined to his retired father, to have himself filmed in the places he and his parents used to go to for their Sunday escapades when he was a kid. But, after leaving Bastogne, he hears on the radio that Marc Dutroux, the pedophile-torturer-murderer has just escaped the police forces. Totally upset, Didier decides to fork off to Grâce-Hologne, a little village close to Liège, to protect a potential victim of Dutroux.

title: Travellinckx

title: Les soeurs Van Hoof

overview: A delirious introspection of an aspiring traumatisme. Dixit Bouli Lanners.

title: Ultranova

title: Nobody Has to Know

title: Paint it Gold

title: Asterix at the Olympic Games

title: Cowboy

title: Louise-Michel

title: Aaltra

title: The Villain

title: Locked Out

title: A Town Called Panic

title: White Snow

title: Eldorado

title: 25 Degrees in Winter

title: Mammuth

title: Kill Me Please

title: Arlette

title: Dead Man's Hand

title: The Night of the 12th

title: Chicas

title: The Big Night

title: Nothing to Declare

title: Alien Adventure

title: Special Treatment

title: A Real Job

title: Second Tour

title: Bunker Paradise

title: En territoire indien

title: Hand of the Headless Man

title: Rust and Bone

title: Headwinds

title: Smoke Signals

title: 11.6

title: 9 Month Stretch

title: Tour de Force

title: Paint it Gold

title: Brotherhood of Tears

title: Lulu in the Nude

title: Toto the Hero

title: Madame Edouard

title: La part de l’ombre

title: Les Saigneurs

title: Le Palmier

title: The Perfect Boyfriend

title: Nicholas on Holiday

title: Jours de chance

title: Mad in Belgium

title: All Cats Are Grey

title: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

title: I'm Dead But I Have Friends

title: April and the Extraordinary World

title: The First, the Last

title: Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

title: Heal the Living

title: Raw

title: The Ordinary People

title: A Town Called Panic: Christmas Panic!

title: A Very Long Engagement

title: Feathers in My Head

title: Avida

title: When the Sea Rises

title: Spit’n’Split

title: Bloody Milk

title: Le Signaleur

title: Above the Law

title: The Carriers Are Waiting

title: The Missing Half

title: Dog

title: Real Love

title: Third Wedding

title: Double Plus Ungood

title: Patrick

title: Wide Load

title: Notre Dame

title: Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel

title: The Return of James Battle

title: Amerigo and the New World

title: Delete History

title: Panique au village : La Foire agricole

title: Bye Bye Morons

title: A Town Called Panic: Double Fun

title: Nobody Has to Know

title: Love Song for Tough Guys

title: There Is No Love Without Stories

title: Saddam Hussein Is Alive

title: Le Faux Soir

title: Le vilain : Instantanés

title: Le Pantalon

title: A Dog of Flanders

title: Pretend I'm Not Here

title: Krieg

title: Eldorado

title: Ultranova

title: The Giants

title: The Giants

title: Nobody Has to Know

title: Muno

title: The First, the Last

title: The First, the Last

title: Eldorado

title: Travellinckx

title: Travellinckx

title: Les soeurs Van Hoof

title: Ultranova

title: Nobody Has to Know