Gene Bervoets

An art thief becomes trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry. Imprisoned with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.

An imprisoned serial killer is pleasantly surprised by a visit from his estranged daughter.

Noah loves his girlfriend Lea and their daughter Zita dearly, just about as much as his extremely pimped car with vanity plate “H4Z4RD”. When his cousin offers him a seemingly simple job as a driver, it soon turns into an unlikely and nerve-racking race through Antwerp, which can only result in the end of Noah, his family or the car…

A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger.

A day in the life of reluctant hotel owner Dave, a man troubled by nightmares, his neighbour, his friends and love. Dave’s days and nights blend into each other as he wanders vacantly through the halls of the abandoned and dilapidated Hotel Poseidon, which he inherited from his deceased father. When a young woman knocks on the hotel’s door looking for a room, while Dave’s best friend wants to throw a party in the backroom, and a recurring dream haunts him, a surreal and grisly ordeal is set in motion.

Life does not go well the last couple of years for film director Serge Gabriëls. Since the day he chose his career above the woman of his life, things kept going downhill. When a bailiff was sent to declare his production company bankrupt, he lost all hope and perspective. Fortunately at that crucial moment he received the one phone call he has been waiting for his whole life. Out of the blue, Serge is offered the opportunity to realize the dream of his lifetime: to shoot a real love story.

Paul and Anna live an apparently happy and successful life. But when their son inexplicably falls ill, the facade of a seemingly happy family life crumbles completely, like brittle porcelain that can no longer be glued.

8세기, 북유럽. 프리지아의 왕자 ‘레드배드＇는 전통적으로 내려오는 악습에 반대해 귀족들에게 추방당하게 된다. 죽음의 위기에서 구사일생으로 덴마크인들에 의해 목숨을 구한 ‘레드배드‘, 운명에 순응한채 그들과 살아가던 중 프랑크족의 침략을 받아 삶의 터전을 잃고 억압과 굴욕적인 삶을 살게 되는 프리지아인들의 소식을 듣게 되고, 다시 프리지아를 재건하기 위해 본래의 자리를 찾기로 하는데... 11월, 자유를 되찾기 위한 레드배드의 목숨을 건 전쟁이 시작된다!

A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.

Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel.

When their son suddenly dies the long divorced Ton and Fransje seek comfort with each other.

The Hope Affair is the story of the fascinating affair between an impassioned woman in the midst of an attack on a conservative male bastion and an éminence grise from that same men’s world. An affair that pitches head against heart. An affair that completely spins out of control. And that can be quite funny.

Ludwig is an aging hotel inspector who’s become bored with his luxury lifestyle. When he meets a young woman in Paris, it might just be the wake-up call he needed.

Holiday bus driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south with his own travel company 'Paradise Trips'. Today, on the verge of his own retirement, Mario has to bring a motley crew of alternative partygoers to a psychedelic festival in Croatia. The journey soon turns into a fascinating trip that confronts Mario with his own prejudices and his long-lost son.

살인청부업자 슈나이더는 의뢰를 받는다. 목표는 작가 레이먼 박스로 오늘밤을 넘기기 전에 제거해야 한다. 마침 생일이라 망설이던 슈나이더는 결국 일을 수락하지만, 간단해 보이던 암살은 의외로 쉽지가 않다.

17세기 신흥 강국으로 부상한 네덜란드. 2만 척의 배로 전세계를 누비며 교역으로 부를 쌓고, 정치적으로는 공화국 체계를 구축하며 국민에게 자유를 장려하던 네덜란드는 왕당정치를 고수하던 유럽 열강국들에게 위협적인 존재로 성장하기에 이른다. 이에 영국은 함대를 보내 네덜란드의 교역로를 차단하려 하고 끝내 교전이 빈번하게 일어나는데… 영국과의 해전 중 전사한 트롬프 장군은 선장에 불과한 미힐에게 그의 뒤를 부탁한다는 유언을 남기고 이에 힘입어 선원들 사이에서 뛰어난 지도력과 전략을 선보여 인정을 받았던 미힐은 왕당파의 반대에도 불구하고 새로운 장군으로 취임하게 된다. 미힐이 장군이 됨으로써 처음으로 영국과의 해전에서 승리를 거두고, 그 뒤에도 미힐은 계속해서 네덜란드에게 승리를 안겨주지만 그를 향한 왕당파의 시선이 곱지만은 않다. 이렇게 나라 안팎의 적들을 상대하며 미힐은 네덜란드 함대를 유럽 최강으로 올려놓기 위해 고군분투하는데… 위대한 업적으로 혁혁한 공을 세우며 지금까지도 역사상 가장 위대한 제독으로 기억되는 장군 미힐 드 로이테르는 과연 마지막까지 네덜란드에게 승리를 선사할 수 있을 것인가.

Eva Hendrickx is an ambitious young journalist working on the team of television legend Herman Verbeeck. She's determined to bring a story about the riots in the suburbs of Brussels. While the city spins further away in a spiral of violence, Eva meets Lahbib, a Moroccan with a heavy past. He escorts her into his complex and hard world. Meanwhile, Herman Verbeeck sees a way to exploit Eva's story in the ever-competitive mediagame...

Five monks live harmoniously in the monastery but suddenly their peace is disturbed by a gang of construction workers. The leader of the church sold the monastery to the town council, and now their beloved home is destined to become a spa! The monks' desperate attempts to stop this situation seem in vain, but then - a miracle! The monastery is saved. But that is just the start of their troubles...

Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its owners. To succeed, he must approach Julia, expert diamond for sale which is a considerable personal and family issue. Beyond a jigsaw particularly daring, Julia Simon will lead to a destiny she could not imagine.

정체불명의 비밀집단 우두머리인 보그만은 죽음의 위협을 피해 어느 부유한 저택가로 숨어든다. 집주인에게 그의 아내 마리나와 잘 아는 사이라고 말하지만 소유욕 강한 남자에게 오히려 두들겨 맞는 수모를 당한다. 결국 마리나가 지저분하지만 어딘가 카리스마가 있는 그를 불쌍히 여겨 남편 몰래 집안에 숨겨주게 되고, 보그만과 그의 하수인들은 부유한 중산층 가정을 쑥밭으로 만들어버리는 계획에 착수한다. 주인공의 이름이 제목이기도 한 은 네덜란드 영화로서는 38년 만에 처음으로 올해 칸영화제 경쟁부문에 초청됨으로써 화제를 불러일으킨 작품이다. 이 영화에서 중산층 파괴는 네덜란드 감독 특유의 유머로써 연출된다. 악의 무리가 단란한 가정으로 잠입하여 와해시킨다는 익숙한 소재를 으스스한 블랙 코미디의 느낌으로 표현하는 솜씨 또한 일품이다. 인물들의 뛰어난 연기는 이 개성 넘치는 영화에 설득력을 부여하며, 시공간의 경계로부터의 탈피는 초현실적 분위기를 자아낸다. 구구절절 설명 없이 영화 전체를 끌고 나가는 힘이 돋보이는 수작이다.

Commissaris Thomas Verhaege is met zijn team een oplichter op het spoor, op het moment dat Vadim Arveladze, een zware crimineel, hun pad kruist. Een hologram met bezwarende informatie wordt de speelbal tussen politie en gewetenloze criminelen. Een bitse strijd ontstaat als de criminelen Thomas’ echtgenote Eva kidnappen om te ruilen voor het bewuste hologram. Het voortbestaan van België is de inzet.

A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.

In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was destroyed by the verdict, Koen and his wife Magda remain together today. The film is a story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover's unique point of view

도시 한 가운데의 비밀 공간 ‘로프트’. 한 여자의 시체 그리고 다섯 명의 용의자. 가족, 명예, 돈. 모든 것을 충족한 다섯명의 중년 남성 친구들은 단 한가지 고민이 있다. 흔적을 남기지 않고 그들의 판타지를 채워 줄 공간이 필요한 것. 유능한 건축가 빈센트는 자신이 지은 건물에 비밀스런 펜트하우스를 만들고 다섯 개의 열쇠를 나누어 주며, 각자의 밀회를 즐긴다. 그러던 어느날, 로프트에서 밀회를 즐겼던 흔적과 한 여자의 시체가 발견된다. 다섯 남자들은 엄청난 충격에 빠지며 서로가 범인이 아니라고 강력히 주장하지만, 범인은 이들 중 한 명인 것이 분명하며 서로의 비밀을 폭로하고 의심하기 시작하는데..

An older film critic's life is interrupted by an unexpected visitor.

Sextet is a film about love and relationships in Amsterdam. It features an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together with the feature SIMON (2004) this one is part of Terstall's trilogy about the liberties of the present Dutch society.

Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...

Teacher Rob Dekoster is a good man, albeit a bit too frivolous and liberal with funds the local arts center's interim director. His wife Nelle, who sometimes abuses drugs, spoils his ingrate teenage stepdaughter Sandy, who is kind only to her sweet, mentally handicapped brother, Jimmy Vandevyver. After a class on sexual abuse from feminist teacher Lydia De Beule, Sandy pretends Rob abused her. Lydia, Rob's ex, eagerly helps her fabricate 'proof', which a female police commissioner eagerly believes. A frustrated judge (and father) shamelessly ignores the legal benefit of the doubt, even tricks Rob while in jail. Nelle discovers more then one sick truth.

벨기에 앤트워프 경찰인 빙케와 프레디는 아동 성매매 사건을 수사하다 범인인 퀴퍼스를 사살하게 된다. 은퇴하고 싶어하는 늙은 살인청부업자 레다는 의뢰를 받고 판 캄프라는 사람을 살해하지만, 성매매 대상이었던 열두 살 소녀 비이케를 죽이는 것은 거부한다. 레다는 알츠하이머병에 걸려 기억을 조금씩 잃어가고 있다. 그러나 얼마 후 비이케가 시체로 발견되자 빙케와 프레디가 수사를 맡는다. 레다는 자신에게 의뢰를 했던 자들의 치부를 알게 되고 그들을 응징하기로 결심한다...

An acknowledged master of the short sans dialogue, Jos Stelling won a bundle of awards for THE WAITING ROOM at festivals in Holland, Russia, and Switzerland. And if you thought that richly inventive spoof of the leering macho in God?s Little Acre, the crowded waiting room of your local railway station, was one of the luniest Erotic Tales ever made, then buckle your seat belt for a ride down Life?s Great Battlefield: the expressway during rush hour! Take the boredom of the slow lane, add the spice of one-upmanship, top it off with a delightful girl-boy butting match, and what?s missing? A layover at the next gas station.

In this film within a film, a Belgian serial killer escapes prison and finds that a filmmaker is making a movie about his life. A maverick director, a merciless producer, an insubordinate star, and a conviced serial killer all try to survive the deadliest place on Earth: a movie set.

A romantic and funny coming-of-age story. Victor, a 13-year-old boy, is desperately looking for his First Kiss. When that First Kiss comes too close, Victor seeks refuge in his imagination, becoming the Man of Steel who has no emotions, because tears will make him rust. But no Man of Steel can resist Fania, a 13-year-old girl, for very long.

A murder-à-trois in every conceivable way.

Philip, a naive young man, has been signed up by his mother for 'Mister Right'. In the 499th episode of this popular television-show, Philip is chosen by the sexy Tamara to be her date. Together they spend a week on the isle of Tenerife. They fall in love and have a wonderful time together. With a little video camera they film the highlights of their trip for the television audience at home. At the end of their stay, they'd very much like to continue their relationship at home in Belgium. But at the airport they agree to look after a briefcase of a Belgian businessman. However the man doesn't show up and they take the briefcase with them.

A large train station, it might be anywhere in a big city. Waiting passengers, some are curiously observing each other, some are too much involved with their own petty problems to pay attention to anything else. Our man, self- assured, practically undresses some of the woman present with his eyes, at least as long as his wife is absent, trying to get them some coffee. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, he can hardly believe it's true. Obviously, it is his lucky day today. By the time his wife returns our man has experienced some astonishing things under the watchful eyes of the fellow passengers. And most probably he will be much more reserved next time he sees a beautiful blonde.

Lisa's life changes dramatically when she discovers she is seropositive.

Six young filmmakers were each given the chance to shoot a short on a common theme. Combined, their efforts result in a feature. The idea is to tell an alternative history of Antwerp, based on tall stories, rumors and events.

Grocer De Feyter is put out of business by competition from a supermarket run by the Moroccan Saïd. To keep afloat, he does the dirty work for a right-wing politician. This man is in cahoots with a project developer who wants to build a furniture superstore in the slum area. With the aid of criminals, they manage to bring racial tension in the area to boiling point. Against this background, affection blossoms between the daughter of the grocer and the son of Saïd, a real Romeo and Juliet. Then a group of skinheads decides to put an end to the fragile romance with violence.

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.

Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.

Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives.

Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the 'flying carpet'. The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy's freshmen friends Tom Smits and Denn

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.

실종이란 의미의 영화 베니싱은 두 남자의 집착과 운명을 그린 스릴러 물이다. 렉스와 시스카이는 휴가차 여행을 떠나는데 휴게소에서 시스카이가 실종이 되고 만다. 렉스는 여자 친구를 찾으려고 백방으로 뛰어 다니지만 찾지 못한다. 그는 여자 친구에게 사고가 생겼음을 직감한다. 실종은 기사화 되었고 TV를 통해 공개적으로 렉스는 여자 친구를 납치 한 범인에게 생사 여부와 무슨 이유에서 그런 일이 생겼는지 알고 싶다고 말한다. 시간이 흘러 3년 후 범인이 여자 친구를 잃고 궁금해 하는 렉스에게 접근한다. 여자 친구에게 무슨 일이 있었는지 알려 주겠다며 수면제를 탄 커피를 마실 것을 제안한다. 거부하던 렉스는 이를 마셔 버린다. 여자 친구를 잃은 렉스와 여자를 납치한 화학선생 레이먼드. 랙스는 새로운 여자 친구가 생겼음에도 시스카이를 포기하지 않고 오로지 무슨 일이 있었는지에 집착한다. 렉스의 이런 호기심은 결국 어떻게 된것인지 알게 해 주는 조건으로 그녀와 똑같이 수면제를 마실 것을 제안하는 범인의 요구에 응해 버린다. 렉스는 납치범의 정체를 알고도 신고를 하거나 하는 등의 행위를 하지 않는다. 다만 궁금할 뿐이고 무슨 일이 있었는지 만을 알고 싶을 뿐이다. 그리고 그의 이러한 집착은 끔찍한 결말을 향해 치닫게 되는데.......

Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there are handsome men and ugly ones, that love can be unfair. That one can find comfort in drinking... but above all he learns that man is capable of anything - absolutely anything! - to get his fair share of love.

In a near future the world is split into two categories, the supporters of law and order on the one hand and the rebels on the other. Chico, a biker, who is to be conscripted into the army, is part of the second group. He soon runs away from a military hospital and, thanks to the help of a gang of motorcyclists, helps his friends to escape from prison. A violent confrontation with police forces ensues.

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.