Ruben Impens

Ruben Impens

Nascimento : 1971-03-31, Ghent, Belgium

História

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruben Impens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Ruben Impens

Filmes

The Eight Mountains
Director of Photography
Pietro is a boy from the city. Bruno is the last child of a forgotten mountain village. Over the years Bruno remains faithful to his mountain, while Pietro is the one who comes and goes. Their encounters introduce them to love and loss, reminding them of their origins, letting their destinies unfold, as Pietro and Bruno discover what it means to be true friends for life.
Titane
Director of Photography
Após uma série de crimes inexplicáveis, um ex-bombeiro se reencontra com seu filho, desaparecido há 10 anos.
Dirty God
Director of Photography
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
Rédeas da Redenção
Director of Photography
O filme gira em torno de um presidiário chamado Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), que tem a chance de participar de um programa de terapia reabilitacional treinando Mustangs selvagens. Com pouca conexão com seus colegas de prisão, Roman luta para se comunicar com os animais. Trabalhando ao lado do jovem condenado Henry (Jason Mitchell), Roman inicia um forte vínculo com um Mustangs particularmente difícil, o que o força a enfrentar seu difícil passado e os seus demônios mais íntimos.
Querido Menino
Director of Photography
David Sheff é um conceituado jornalista e escritor que vive com a segunda esposa e os filhos. O filho mais velho, Nic Sheff, é viciado em metanfetamina e abala completamente a rotina da família e daquele lar. David tenta entender o que acontece com o filho, que teve uma infância de carinho e suporte, ao mesmo tempo em que estuda a droga e sua dependência. Nic, por sua vez, passa por diversos ciclos da vida de um dependente químico, lutando para se recuperar, mas volta e meia se entregando ao vício.
Zagros
Director of Photography
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…
Grave
Director of Photography
Justine (Garance Marillier) é uma jovem tímida e vegetariana, caloura na mesma faculdade de veterinária em que estuda sua irmã, Alexia (Ella Rumpf). Durante o trote, a menina é forçada a comer carne animal pela primeira vez e a ação provoca mudanças extremas em sua vida.
Kokoro
Director of Photography
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.
Bélgica
Director of Photography
O drama segue dois irmãos que, apesar de não terem nada em comum, abrem um bar chamado "Belgica", que começa a ter bastante fama. Apesar do sucesso, a dupla terá de enfrentar diversos problemas inerentes à gestão de um negócio familiar, passando-se rapidamente da relação de irmandade à rivalidade
Café Derby
Director of Photography
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...
Groenland
Director of Photography
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.
The Sky Above Us
Director of Photography
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.
Marry Me
Director of Photography
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?
Bistrô Romantique
Director of Photography
Pascaline tem quarenta anos e um restaurante. No dia dos namorados ela recebe uma surpreendente e ousada proposta de um amor do passado. Paralelamente, durante o jantar, a dona de casa Roos informa ao marido que tem um amante e a cinquentona Mia pensa em suicídio.
Offline
Director of Photography
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Alabama Monroe
Director of Photography
Elise e Didier se apaixonam à primeira vista, apesar de suas diferenças. Ele fala, ela escuta. Ele é um ateu romântico e ela é uma religiosa pé-no-chão. Quando a filha deles adoece gravemente, o amor deles é posto à prova.
Code 37
Director of Photography
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....
Dagen van gras
Director of Photography
When isolated teenager Ben becomes friends with the charismatic Tom, they experience a summer full of music, alcohol and drugs.
Turquoise
Director of Photography
A trio of Turkish brothers immigrants find themselves torn between two lands and cultures, with roots in neither.
Beyond the Steppes
Director of Photography
"Beyond the steppes" tells the story of a woman's forced journey to the steppes of Central Asia.
Oxygen
Director of Photography
Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
Os Infelizes
Director of Photography
O garoto de 13 anos Gunther Strobbe cresce rodeado por lixo, álcool e seu pai e tios completamente inúteis. Lenta mas seguramente, ele está sendo preparado para a mesma vida infeliz. Ele pode ser capaz de mudar seu destino?
Moscow, Belgium
Director of Photography
‘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.
With Friends Like These
Director of Photography
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...
Bluebird
Focus Puller
Merel is a young girl with a lot of talent. She excels at school, is good on the springboard and is careful too. Her severely handicapped brother Kasper gets a lot of attention. Merel also has talent for singing. It is no surprise that she is asked for the school musical. But maybe Merel is a bit too convinced of herself. When people perform solos, she likes to sing along loudly. This doesn't fall on good ground though. People start ignoring her and she is getting bullied. All of the sudden Merel's life isn't that easy anymore, it will be hard to keep herself together.
Steve + Sky
Director of Photography
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?
50CC
Director of Photography
A film about the things of life: girls, boys, scooters… Anyway, you know how it is.
Little Crumb
Clapper Loader
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.