Jan Decleir

Cuando la entrega de regalos sale mal y el abuelo Noel se mete en problemas, los hermanos Jules y Noor deben trabajar juntos para salvar la Navidad. ¿Lo lograrán?

Jules Claus ha vuelto a creer en la Navidad y se prepara para la época más ajetreada del año junto con el abuelo Noël. Todo parece ir según lo previsto hasta que Jules recibe una carta muy especial en la que le plantean una pregunta intrigante. ‘La familia Claus 2’ es una película entrañable que hará disfrutar a pequeños y mayores, y está protagonizada por un reparto holandés y flamenco de excepción.

Después de descubrir que su abuelo es Santa Claus, Jules tiene que ayudarlo a entregar los regalos por todo el mundo. Pero el odio de Jules hacía la Navidad podría hacer que eso sea más difícil de lo que pensaba Santa.

How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.

A short film about our climate, our conscience and our future.

En 1885, África es un suculento pastel destinado a ser dividido salvajemente y todo el mundo quiere un trozo. Un rey europeo perturbado, un pigmeo que trabaja en un hotel de lujo, un empresario exitoso pero solitario, un porteador esclavizado, un joven desertor del ejército, un clarinetista fantasmagórico. Unos se benefician del colonialismo y la codicia. Otros sufren racismo y violencia.

Who's keeping the citizens of a Belgian provincial town out of their sleep? Is it Santa Clause?

In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future.

Dode Hoek (Blind Spot) is the story of Jan Verbeeck, the uncompromising commissioner of the Antwerp drug squad. Known as Mr. Zero Tolerance, he is hugely popular with the people and the media. The country is thrown into commotion when he announces that he is leaving the police force just before the elections to join the extreme right party, VPV. On his last day as a policeman, he leads an investigation that takes him to Charleroi where a raid on a drug lab sets in motion a series of unforeseeable and fatal events.

Max and Tikkelotje own an unsuccessful theatre company. When Tikkelotje notices Ramon - the faithful companion to Saint Nicholas - playing the guitar and singing, she decides to kidnap both him and Slechtweervandaag, Saint Nicholas’s trusty steed. Saint Nicholas is devastated, but eventually he pulls himself together and goes around the houses to collect the children’s wishlists. An adventure involving assorted people then ensues as he tried to beat the clock to rescue the hapless pair.

Un crítico sin éxito, pero lleno de vanidad, se propone escribir una biografía sobre un anciano pintor ciego que, tras causar furor en el mundo artístico, ha quedado relegado al olvido. El crítico consigue alterar la rutinaria vida del anciano proponiéndole un viaje por Europa para encontrar a su primer amor. Lo que no sabe es que el viejo, en realidad, lo está usando para poder librarse de la férrea custodia de su sobreprotectora hija.

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...

Un excéntrico billonario firma un contrato con una organización secreta donde se acuerda que lo maten por una suma de dinero. Tras encargar ese pack “sorpresa”, no tendrá ni idea de qué método usarán para acabar con él. Mientras elige un ataúd, conocerá a una joven mujer que ha firmado el mismo tipo de contrato. Ambos hablarán sobre su motivación para tomar esa decisión y se enamorarán mientras esperan su destino. Pero ya no hay vuelta atrás: los asesinos a sueldo contratados para el trabajo no permitirán ningún tipo de demora.

Belgium short film

Colin (Dornan) es un rico hombre de negocios de Nueva York que siempre consigue lo que desea. Cuando un acuerdo con un millonario jeque de Dubai depende de la adquisición de una codiciada ave, Colin se adentra en un territorio poco conocido con una gente muy confiada dispuesta a proteger a la criatura. Pero cuando Colin se enamora de la bella nieta del propietario (Charlotte De Bruyne), ¿utilizará sus implacables técnicas del pasado para conseguir su objetivo, o se entregará a una pasión como jamás había sentido? (FILMAFFINITY)

Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but his father doesn't want to talk about it. When Finn meets a mysterious old man, who plays the violin beautifully, he decides to learn how to play the violin as well. The old man teaches him, while Finn's dad thinks he is playing football... Is Finn the only one who sees the magic of music? What does his father hide?

Sint and his mischievous assistant Zwarte Piet enjoy collecting children's letters at night, but lose a whole bag.

Ambientada en el siglo XVI, narra la épica historia de la búsqueda de un paso hacia la India pasando por el Polo Norte acometida en 1596 por un grupo de marineros holandeses. El viaje tuvo grandes problemas al quedar el barco atrapado en el hielo ártico. Con hombres obligados a pasar el invierno en medio del mar congelado, el hambre, las bajísimas temperaturas y el acecho de los osos polares hicieron que estallaran numerosos conflictos entre la tripulación, unos hombres a los que sólo les quedaba esperar la primavera.

The poem well integrated in the film, was interpreted by writer/actor/painter Pjeroo Roobjee. The project is melting pot of poetry, animation and music resulting in a 20 minute short film.

A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It focuses on the four women of the Miller family: teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older half-sister Michelle, as they work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a bit lost. Can their male counterparts handle this dangerous cocktail of determination and female hormones?

Marieke quiere vivir su vida. Pero, ¿cómo hacerlo si le han quitado el amor? Busca calor en brazos de hombres mayores hasta reunir fuerzas para hacer frente al pasado y finalmente poder ser ella misma.

The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have stopped chemo therapy and having left her husband. The worried parents call the other three adult daughters into the house and they arrive one by one. For the first time in 6 years the entire family is united again. The characters are drawn as tensions rise from old conflicts and as the situation sinks in that Laura might be terminally ill. The movie eventually shifts from a lively sometimes comical beginning into the serious theme of dying and does handle this quite tactfully and moving. While the film touches on many areas surrounding death (including religion, graveyard, care, eutanasia) the main focus is on the transformation of the characters that are thrown out of their busy lifes into this situation, eventually accepting it and dealing with it.

Les Barons ont une devise : "glander plus pour vivre plus". Chaque être humain naît avec un crédit de pas. Chaque pas effectué te rapproche de la mort. Nous, les Barons, on le sait dès le départ.

Cuatro amigas descubren un misterioso pueblo donde el tiempo parece haberse detenido en los últimos 200 años. El pueblo es gobernado con puño de hierro por "El Padre". Todos los niños han desaparecido y los habitantes continúan dormidos. ¿Conseguirán con la ayuda de un profesor brillante pero despistado y su atractivo ayudante, despertar de nuevo al pueblo y encontrar a los niños perdidos?

A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.

Loft nos cuenta la historia de cinco hombres que comparten en secreto un apartamento donde poder escaparse con sus amantes, donde relajarse o simplemente evadirse de la rutina. Cuando aparece el cuerpo de una mujer desconocida asesinada en el apartamento, empezará un juego de sospechas entre ellos para descubrir quién es el culpable.

Papá Noel ha regresado a su hogar y no volverá hasta el año que viene. Mientras tanto, su caballo Amérigo ha quedado al cuidado de Winky. Para ello, la niña está aprendiendo a montar con el pony Naf-Naf y además sus tíos le están enseñando todo sobre cómo tratar a los caballos. Y aunque a Winky le encanta montar a Naf-Naf, no puede quitarse de la cabeza que quiere cabalgar sobre Amérigo. Sus tíos se lo prohíben porque dicen que es un caballo demasiado grande, pero ella no termina de aceptarlo. Un día, cuando no hay nadie en la granja, Winky hace algo malo desobedeciendo a todos, y Amérigo escapa. Winky lo persigue con su bici por las dunas de la playa, pero el caballo termina desapareciendo. ¿Qué pasará ahora que Papá Noel está a punto de volver a por su caballo?. (FILMAFFINITY)

On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet...

Tres hermanas atrapadas en sus vidas estancadas, insatisfechas con sus maridos, asustadas por las peleas de sus padres. Y de repente llega la carta de despedida del padre que anuncia su intención de suicidarse.

Na bijna dertig jaar keert Germaine, Firmins grote liefde, plots terug naar haar geboortestad. Firmin is dolgelukkig en vastbesloten Germaine's hart te heroveren, maar Germaine wijst zijn avances af. En dan zoekt Mohammed Boutrous, een jonge en getalenteerde bokser, Firmin op. Hij wil dat Firmin hem traint. Firmin accepteert, in de hoop zo zijn eer én de liefde van zijn leven terug te winnen...

En un paisaje nebuloso y crepuscular, una madre y su hijo habitan en una mansión que parece estar al margen del tiempo. Rubén, el hijo, es ciego, pero aún se acuerda de cuando veía. Es un joven exaltado y furioso que está enfadado con el mundo. Con la esperanza de aplacar su alma atormentada, su madre contrata a Marie como lectora. Marie es una mujer misteriosa y no le gusta que la vean. Con paciencia y autoridad, consigue poco a poco amansar a Rubén gracias a una voz dulce y poderosa, al mismo tiempo que consigue evocar en la mente del muchacho imágenes de una nitidez cristalina.

Cinema version of the 5 part TV series. During World War II, Stan Vandewalle saves boxing trainer Max from the bombed German war prisoners camp, and shoots two German soldiers while escaping. After the war, Stan resolves to put all his frustration over the death of his slow-witted brother Aloïs, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, with his side-car against a farmer's truck in making come true Aloïs other dream, to see Stan becoming 'king of the world' as boxer.

This is a portrait of an old man who is kept locked up in the attic by his daughter with the excuse that outside it continuously rains. The man escapes in his imagination, carving wooden animals. Suddenly he realizes that the Flood is about to happen.

Winky es una niña de seis años que acaba de llegar a Holanda con su madre, para vivir con su padre. Después de pasar un día bastante duro en el colegio, se encuentra con un potro muy hermoso.

Businessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos Diels and Nick, two of the 46 laborers who lost their job recently when Christian had his family film bankrupted. Each victim fails to escape, even the fire alarm doesn't get them freed. After Jos realizes the mistress is his only daughter, and Nick falls in love with Lisa, the masked men's mood evolves as they progress to truth time, when the police arrives.

11 de Marzo de 2002. John R., un colectivero de 59 de Uithoorn, entra armado en las Torres Rembrandt de Amsterdam y toma a los empleados del lugar como rehenes. El motivo de esta acción, protestar contra el sistema widescreen de los televisores; la razón de su queja, las barras negras que dividen la imagen contendrían códigos ocultos.

Sarah, a beautiful and gifted 15-year-old from a wealthy but chaotic family, holds on to one dream: to run away from home and to become a professional ballet dancer.

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mother’s death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Otto’s financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.

Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His paranoia drives him to find the truth.

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.

De resultas del asesinato de un importante funcionario público, el departamento de policía de Amberes comisionó a dos de sus mejores investigadores criminalistas para investigar el caso: Vincke y Verstuyft. Las pistas conducen al sicario Angelo Ledda. A Ledda, que experimenta síntomas del alzheimer, le resulta cada vez más difícil ejecutar los encargos.Cuando se da cuenta de que está siendo utilizado en una lucha por el poder político, decide morder la mano que le da de comer. A Vincke y Verstuyft les cuesta mucho desenmarañar la trama de intrigas, redes e intereses creados para poder evitar que se cometan más crímenes.

An explicator of silent movies falls in love with the star of film he's accompanying.

Después de la muerte de su padre, Hannah Weinstein, una periodista neoyorquina de origen judío, decide averiguar qué sucedió en 1943 en Berlín cuando su madre, Ruth, y su abuela fueron separadas por los nazis. Sus investigaciones la llevan a la capital alemana. Allí Lena Fischer le cuenta cómo salvó la vida de Ruth cuando los últimos judíos de la ciudad fueron sitiados por orden de Goebbles en febrero de 1943, momento a partir del cual la pequeña Ruth ya no volvió a ver a su madre. (FILMAFFINITY)

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

All young Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy watching a soccer game together. When this simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law, the boy must now embark on a thrilling adventure to reunite with his father. In order to fight the system, however, he must enlist the help of a former anarchist, and together they'll need to apply the secret of the Hop.

En 1913, una joven comienza a trabajar como empleada doméstica en una sórdida pensión parisina llena de excéntricos. Cuando se enamora de uno de los invitados, debe elegir entre su hijo y su nuevo romance.

A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only plagued by her physical decay, but also by visions of her dead sister Marleen.

A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mariken. The orphan Mariken lives in a secluded forest with an eccentric old hermit. One day, she decides to leave her surroundings and sets off for town to buy a new goat. On her adventurous journey into the 'real' world, she finds out about the good and bad sides of people.

Story of two con men, Boorman and his younger assistant Laarmans, who are trying to sell companies their non-existing magazine.

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.

En 1914 y durante un fuerte temporal, en el interior de un barco alemán una yegua da a luz a un caballito llamado Lucky. Cuando el barco llega a una ciudad minera de África, el pequeño animal es separado de su madre. Su soledad parece tener fin cuando es adoptado por Richard, un niño huérfano que trabaja en unas cuadras. Sin embargo, al estallar la guerra, el caballo vuelve a quedar abandonado a su suerte en el desierto. Allí conocerá a una joven nativa y a un antílope.

Narra la historia del padre Damián, un sacerdote católico belga que, en 1873, llegó como voluntario a la isla de Molokai, en Hawái, donde consagró su vida al cuidado y consuelo de los leprosos allí confinados

Katadreuffe es un joven que atraviesa por dificultades económicas en la Rotterdam de los años 20. Vive bajo la tiranía de su padre, el dominante alguacil Dreverhaven, un hombre que todavía no ha aceptado que la madre del chico lo abandonara, y que vuelca toda su rabia y fustración sobre su hijo. (FILMAFFINITY)

On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...

En una tranquila granja de la campiña holandesa, la nonagenaria Antonia repasa su vida. Tranquilamente acostada en su cama, hace memoria hasta el día, poco después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en que volvió al pueblo en el que nació. A partir de ahí, recuerda su vida durante los cincuenta años siguientes, así como la de sus hijos y nietos. Un día tras otro, el comportamiento independiente, inconsciente y algo excéntrico de Antonia y su familia, y en especial su lucha por el feminismo, se mezcla con la vida cotidiana del pueblo en que viven. La vieja granja se convierte en el hogar de personajes muy variados en los que el resentimiento inicial se convierte en tolerancia y, posteriormente, en amor.

A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?

En la localidad belga de Aalst se inicia una revuelta para protestar por las duras condiciones de los obreros de las fábricas. Cuando el religioso Adolf Daens escribe un artículo denunciando estos hechos, su repercusión es tal que no sólo acaba enfrentándose al Papa León XIII, sino también a la necesidad final de elegir entre el sacerdocio y la actividad política. (FILMAFFINITY)

She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her husband is involved in illegal arms traffic and is also having an affair with one of her colleagues, a direct confrontation ensues.

Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally enters a photo shoot, Placide meets Sarah. He falls in love, but she is way out of his reach.

The Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.

The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentally shot during a hunting party on the estate and remains an invalid. Eduard, the eldest son, is a member of the socialist workers' movement and involved in strike actions in the city. Against her father's wishes, his daughter Cordule starts an affair with the poacher Masco. His youngest daughter, Romanie, is forced to work as a domestic servant at the castle, where she is seduced by Maurice, the baron's son and heir, and becomes pregnant. When the youngest son Kamiel also has to leave the farm because he is drafted into the army, the lack of workers on Van Paemel's farm becomes critical. As a result, the family is evicted from their home because they cannot pay the rent. Three of the children emigrate to the USA, one becomes a nun and one dies, until only the farmer and his wife remain.

A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.

When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discovers by chance five paintings signed Constant Permeke, whose power and mystery move and fascinate her.She decides to embark on a quest to find out about who Permeke actually was, the places where he lived, how he worked, what experiences he went through.

He's the "Rocky" of the 15th century-defender of the poor, enemy of evil, champion of justice. He's fearless and the strongest man in the land. He's ready and willing to take on all wrong doers-rich and poor. Accompanied by a lovable, meek little friend, his quest takes him on an unforgettable journey. Swamp monsters, knights in armor, duels, royal pageantry, and damsels in distress all abound in this story of timeless values. In the spirit of "Robin Hood," it's a robust, romantic tale: a feast for the eyes and a joy for the heart.

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.

Antwerp. Someone is making a feature film. After shooting the scenes on location, the filmmaker wanders to the railway station. He's having difficulties with his material, it's a commissioned film. The story is giving him trouble too. But he cannot abandon the project. He now wants to introduce a male character so that he can explain his problems.

A forty-year-old man loses his work and is unemployed. There is a continual coming and going between uncomfortable in his own skin unemployed person, his mistress - a middle-class - and an exuberant and fragile girl.

A la muerte de su madre, un hombre maduro recuerda su adolescencia, cuando tuvo una relación con su sensual tía Coleta.

When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered because of the hard labour and all the regulations.

Political pamphlet in which the theories of Marxist Ernest Mandel are contrasted with the soothing parlance of political leader Paul van den Boeynants. Furthermore, the flow of 'left dogmatism' is alternated with cinematic and musical anecdotes.

Psychodrama. Black and white images of a mining area under the influence of a highly orthodox Catholicism in the 1930s are interspersed with color images of a protest action to save a small church.

In the Belgian hamlet of Verbrande Brug, former lovers Monique and Louis reconnect at a carnival, stirring up drama with their current partners.

In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter. He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with...

Tomasz , a young Polish refugee wanders through Antwerp, looking for the woman who helped him to get his mother through the Iron Curtain. During his search he meets alcoholics, vagrants and other outcasts of the society.

In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.

After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the Parisian Rolande, who he met during the war. Even though his family is pressuring him into marrying his sister-in-law Emily, Renier stays obsessed with Rolande and even visits her in Paris. She manages to persuade him to invest large sums of money into the "Academie de Beauté" in Paris. His reckless investments and breaking off his engagement with Emily leads to unbearable tensions at Horlebecq...

The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.

The wife of a local dictator gets a miscarriage during a failed assault by rebels. The dictators' brother suggesst to present the newly born baby of one a the dead rebels as his posterity.

Wilfried Wils is an auxiliary policeman in Antwerp at the start of the Second World War. The city is in the grip of violence and distrust. Wilfried does what he can for himself, avoiding paths that are too slippery. He receives attention and material support from a man who has sided with the German occupier, Meanbeard, but he also enjoys the confidence of his anti-Nazi colleague Lode, brother to Wilfried’s love Yvette. Wilfried struggles to survive as the persecution of the Jews proceeds unabated.