Ruben Impens
Nacimiento : 1971-03-31, Ghent, Belgium
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Ruben Impens is a Belgian cinematographer. He works in Flanders and is best known for his work with Felix Van Groeningen, having worked on the entirety of Van Groeningen's feature filmography. He has worked on feature films, short films, documentaries and television series.
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Pietro es un chico de ciudad, Bruno es el último niño de una localidad de montaña olvidada. Con el paso de los años, Bruno se mantiene fiel a su montaña, mientras que Pietro viene y va. Sus experiencias le harán enfrentarse al amor y a la pérdida, recordándoles sus orígenes y abriendo paso al destino.
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Un joven con la cara magullada es descubierto en un aeropuerto. Dice llamarse Adrien Legrand, un niño que desapareció hace 10 años. Para su padre, Vincent, esto supone el final de una larga pesadilla y lo lleva a casa. Simultáneamente, se suceden una serie de horribles asesinatos en la región.
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Jade es una joven madre en la flor de la vida cuando un ataque con ácido le deja herida de gravedad. Mientras su cara es reconstruida, su belleza queda escondida tras las cicatrices. Mientras va perdiendo sus relaciones, y se adentra en una vorágine autodestructiva, Jade deberá actuar para poder retomar su vida.
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Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts) es un convicto muy violento al que se le ofrece la posibilidad de entrar en rehabilitación entrenando a mustangs (caballos de Norteamérica) salvajes.
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Crónica sobre la adicción a la metanfetamina y el intento de recuperación y de salir de las drogas a través de los ojos de un padre que observa a su hijo mientras lucha contra la enfermedad de la drogodependencia.
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Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip about Havin: there are rumours of her having an affair. Zagros brushes his father’s concerns away as he trusts his wife and refuses to give credit to the rumours. Later, while Zagros tends to his sheep, he learns that his family have accused Havin of adultery and locked her up. Zagros returns to his village but finds his wife and daughter gone. Havin has fled to the west with their daughter and unborn child. Zagros, believing his wife’s innocence and opposing his father, travels to Istanbul and meets a smuggler who can take him to the west…
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Justine, una joven de 16 años, vive en una familia donde todos son veterinarios y vegetarianos. Es una estudiante brillante y prometedora, pero al ingresar en la facultad de veterinaria descubre un mundo decadente, despiadado y peligrosamente seductor. Durante la primera semana, obsesionada por encajar con sus compañeros de clase, se aleja de los principios que le han inculcado su familia, y come carne cruda por primera vez. Las consecuencias no tardan en llegar, y la joven empezará a desvelar su verdadera naturaleza.
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After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his footsteps, Alice will in fact find herself, in a strange and hostile but warm place.
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Sigue los pasos de dos hermanos totalmente opuestos pero que, aún así, decidirán abrir un bar juntos que pronto se convertirá en el nido en que caerán los pájaros perdidos de la noche. A pesar del éxito, los dos hermanos deberán enfrentarse a las dificultades que comporta llevar un negocio en familia. Su fraternidad se transforma, a su pesar, en rivalidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
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1985. Georges is a born market vendor. As a driven salesman he sells anything, anytime, to anyone. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium, he smells his chance. In addition to the grounds, where tens of thousands of believers will attend an open-air mass, Café Derby is for rent. Georges is sure to earn a small fortune. But his wife and five children are not convinced. It would be another move in too short a time. But as George puts his mind to something...
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A photographer travels around the world. In Amsterdam, where he lives, he meets Iris, who is ten years younger. He is fascinated by her and slowly their relationship grows. Even though they are passionate about each other, their lifestyle and vision on the world appear to be too differentiated.
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Belgrade, 1999. People go in and out of cafés, and lively conversation echoes all around. As if no one expects the NATO bombings. As if they never even started. But there is tension nonetheless, behind the eyes of people who suppress their fear at any cost. It is in this time and place that Ana, Sloba and Bojan construct their own sense of normality in order to retain their sanity. Three ways to deal with fear. One random sky above.
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She is a quick-tempered and feisty Turkish woman; he, a shy and reticent, young Flemish man. Their respective families hold strong – perhaps too strong – opinions on the imminent marriage, and, on the big day, chaos ensues, making the young couple question their own readiness to commit to a union for life. Are their backgrounds really so different to tear them apart?
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La tensión es palpable en el restaurante de Pascaline y Angelo, Brasserie Romantiek, en el Día de San Valentín. Mientras la noche de Paul y Roos va cuesta abajo, Walter está tratando de ligar con Sylvia. Y justo cuando la noche está en pleno apogeo, llega Frank, ex amante de Pascaline... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Tras pasar varios años en la cárcel, Rudy se ha marcado dos objetivos claros: volver a trabajar reparando lavadoras y reconciliarse con su familia. A pesar de la ayuda y el apoyo de Denise, una peluquera jubilada, y de su amigo Rachid, los planes de Rudy son un fracaso. Cuando la reunión familiar parece estar por fin a punto de producirse, el pasado se cobra su factura y Rudy se ve obligado a tomar la decisión más difícil de su vida... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Impactante historia de amor entre Elise y Didier. Ella se dedica a hacer tatuajes en su tienda y el toca el bajo en una banda a nivel regional. Recuerdan su amor a primera vista, su pasión, cómo la música bluegrass les acercó, el embarazo inesperado y la alegría de tener a la preciosa Maybelle. Un círculo completo de felicidad para una pareja muy poco convencional. Pero a los 6 años de edad la enfermedad de la niña ocasionará una gran brecha en la pareja. El estrés y la tristeza causados por la enfermedad de Maybelle empiezan a pasarles factura y Didier y Elise reaccionan de modos completamente diferentes.
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A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go undercover in club Sin City, a port for everyone who avoids the daylight and for girls who pick up their customers. When Hannah and her team investigate that the owner of both the sex-theatre as Sin City are Roos' uncle, the whole case takes a personal turn. In the first place for Hannah, because she knows as no-one else how heavy family secrets can weigh....
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When isolated teenager Ben becomes friends with the charismatic Tom, they experience a summer full of music, alcohol and drugs.
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A trio of Turkish brothers immigrants find themselves torn between two lands and cultures, with roots in neither.
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"Beyond the steppes" tells the story of a woman's forced journey to the steppes of Central Asia.
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Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
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Gunther, un joven escritor que no consigue que le publiquen nada, recuerda momentos del inicio de su adolescencia, con 13 años, marcada por una familia de perdedores, alcohólicos y violentos.
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‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.
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When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old child. And Patrick's gone. Reunited with the old gang, Black Kelly realizes that life went on during her absence and that things will never be the same...
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Merel es una joven con mucho talento. Ella sobresale en la escuela, es buena en todo y también es responsable. Su hermano, severamente discapacitado, Kasper, recibe mucha atención de su parte. Merel también tiene talento para cantar. No es de extrañar que le pidan que actúe en el musical de la escuela. Pero tal vez Merel está demasiada segura de sí misma... La gente comienza a ignorarla ...
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A story about two struggling people who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?
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A film about the things of life: girls, boys, scooters… Anyway, you know how it is.
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The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.