Brussels International Film Festival 2022

A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.

With his impeccable vocal abilities, Freddie Mercury and his rock band, Queen, achieve superstardom. However, amidst his skyrocketing success, he grapples with his ego, sexuality and a fatal illness.

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Nana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, escapes a violent anti-communist purge. Afterwards she lives comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man but her past re-emerges in her dreams.

Love story of a speaking skills teacher and her student.

Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.

Addi, a gifted boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys discover aggression, violence, loyalty, and love.

It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

José and Lucie live a beautiful marriage together, however, one day, boredom sets in and Lucie goes to see a therapist to save their marriage, while her husband goes to see Jean-Claude, their neighbour.

Women in finance represent a minority - yet they are often called 'Dragons'. This documentary, shot in Europe and Asia, presents a series of intimate portraits of various senior women in the finance sector, revealing both the personas they've had to build for work and the parts of themselves they consciously leave at home. Thanks to her house husband, Alison has managed to have a family while going up the corporate finance ladder in London though that came with sacrificing time spent with her boys. In Paris, Laetitia supports young talented women in the industry and hosts feminist gatherings but oddly enough still cannot express her own desire for "power". Perfectionist Martina has had the flawless professional path she dreamed off in Germany but had to bury her desire for family along the way. In Singapore, Adeline controls both workplace and family with an iron fist while husband and kids express their weaknesses without fear. Junior Jennifer is a self-proclaimed workaholic living in Hong Kong but is starting to wonder who she is and what her future holds. Filmed at work and during moments of leisure, these strong and complex women tell us how they survive in one of the most competitive professions in the world.

A Parked Life is an intimate portrait of Petar Doychev, one of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European truck drivers who work in the west.

After a former porn star sees his daughter kidnapped, he turns to a friend for help.They start out on a crazy trip with a huge ransom to pay.

At the end of the world, three men face the southern sea and its dangers. They leave their families, brave the cold and the storms to meet isolated fishermen in the sadly famous islands of the far south of Chile.

An unexpected moment during a session with a client confronts a psychologist with his own inner world. Psychologists are confronted with an extreme inability to understand and embrace their own human nature.

A contemporary urban thriller about the bloody journey of a Brussels subway driver.

The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.

A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.

A woman who is trying to balance her career, relationship affair, family life and individual freedom.

A story about dancers and thieves in modern-day Athens.

Edina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.

2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.