The Be Film Festival (BeFF) is an annual
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
held in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
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Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. It was founded in 2005 and has been held every year in December. It was launched as a showcase for all kind of works of
Belgian cinema. The festival includes a retrospective of films that were released during the year as well as a series of
premieres
A première, also spelled premiere, is the wikt:debut, debut (first public presentation) of a Play (theatre), play, film, dance, or musical composition.
A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywh ...
and other special screenings.
Since its foundation, it has played host to
Bouli Lanners,
Natacha Régnier
Nathalie "Natacha" Régnier (born 11 April 1974) is a Belgian actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award, a European Film Award, and a César Award for her role in the 1998 film '' The Dreamlife of Angels''. Régnier is the first Belgi ...
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Jaco Van Dormael
Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.
Van Dormael spent his childho ...
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Koen De Graeve
Koen De Graeve (born 28 April 1972) is a Belgian actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1993.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1972 births
Living people
Belgian male film actors
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Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020)Fien Troch
Fien Troch (born 1978, in Londerzeel) is a Belgium, Belgian left field film director, producer and screenwriter.
Career
After graduating from the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, Sint-Lukas art academy in Brussels in 2000, she achieved several nom ...
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François Damiens
François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor.
Career
He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in B ...
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Benoît Mariage
Benoît Mariage (born 19 July 1961) is a Belgian film director.
Filmography
*2014: '' Les Rayures du zèbre''
*2007: ''Cow-boy''
*2003: ''L'autre''
*1999: ''Les convoyeurs attendent''
;Documentaries
*2001: '' Nemadis, the Years Without News''
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Joachim Lafosse
Joachim Lafosse (born 18 January 1975) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.
Career
Lafosse studied at the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) at Louvain-la-Neuve between 1997 and 2001. His graduation film ''Tribu'', a 24-minute short ...
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Michaël R. Roskam, among others.
References
External links
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Film festivals in Belgium
Film festivals established in 2005
Festivals in Brussels
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