Tijmen Govaerts

During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.

Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The night has never looked so inviting. Segments: After Dawn [Passée l'aube] (2017), Poof (2018), Spiral (2018), Night of Love (2018), Floating Melon [浮果] (2015).

Twelve ordinary people are called for jury duty for a controversial murder case.

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

A group of friends get together thirty years after one of the group members died in a tragic accident while they were on holiday. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation changes rapidly into a nightmare, when some of the friends are blackmailed with footage from that terrible week three decades ago.

Eccentric criminal psychology Professor T is a successful police advisor but his unpredictable nature drives his colleagues crazy. He has a brilliant mind, but also several psychological and neurological disorders which make him a complex and often difficult individual. However, aided by the trusty and understanding Annelies and Daan they form a team of high-powered experts that Antwerp Homicide Department rely on. After Season Two, however, things change radically. This is a thinking person's television series.

In the turbulent 1980s, friends Marc and Franky, and his sister Vicky, move to Brussels for a career with the Gendarmerie. Soon the three young people are sucked into a spiral of crimes that are attributed to the so-called "Bende van Nijvel" gang.

As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club’s players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet...

After two years in prison, professional con man Alidor Van Praet needs to rebuild the illegal fortune the police seized from him. When he spots 19-year-old Jeremy Peeter’s hacking skills at a computing convention, he knows this shy teenager is the key to making it happen and to get revenge on the financial system that drove his father to suicide.

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.

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

When Brussels-based Gigi discovers that his mother Anaïs is dating her ex again, with whom she shared not only love but also a drug addiction in the past, he presents her with an ultimatum: her son or her lover. When Anaïs refuses to choose, Gigi decides to leave the house. Falling back on his friends, Gigi finds his way in a merciless society.

Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. Jonathan wants to forget the past and is determined to become a different and better person. But even though he strictly adheres to the rules, his good intentions are soon put to the test when a young woman moves in next to him with her small daughter.

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

Alexia, 25, arrives as a trainee nurse in the closed ward of a psychiatric hospital, and meets Joëlle, the head nurse, who teaches her the job. Alexia is touched by the anger of Mila, a 20-year-old patient, who thinks she has no business being there. Despite Joëlle’s warnings about keeping her distance from patients, Alexia gets close to Mila and puts all her energy into trying to get her out.

Ben and Lize, two former high school-sweethearts in their mid-twenties, encounter each other again in the parking lot of their old high school, while a reunion-party is going on inside the building. After some awkward catching up, they come to the realization that they have become complete opposites in more ways than ever before.: While Ben continues to live a rebellious existence as an artist, without concern for structure or long-term plans. Lize has transformed into an overworked yuppie, who is currently expecting her first child. At this moment, it seems that the only thing they have in common is that they don't really feel like attending this reunion. High school reunions tend to be dreadful occasions where people only come to boast about their apparent success in life. Why did Ben and Lize even bother showing up in the first place? Perhaps deep down, they hoped to find something here that they couldn't find elsewhere.

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 a talented young artist, but years of repressing her feelings have impaired her emotionally, binding her to unhealthy relationships at work and at home. Still, there is a fierce, independent spirit that lies inside her, waiting to be liberated. Assured direction coaxes flawless, seamlessly connected performances from actresses Tanya Zabarylo and Olivia Landuyt in the title role as a young woman and young girl respectively.

The unexpected arrival of a Nigerian migrant in the Belgian countryside shakes up the fragile daily life of two men living a secret relationship.

Ensconced in a solitary existence, Paweł believed that his feelings for the young man he once loved in Brussels had long since ebbed. That is, until one rainy afternoon, when he finds Clément waiting at his home in Poland.

Maurice’s (26) family organizes a weekend getaway. The balance of power between the different generations seems to be blurred, but is he willing to keep up appearances just like the others?