Frieda Pittoors

The Balloonist (2025)

Gaby, a heritage chicken keeper, is turned upside down when an arrogant air balloon pilot crashes on her chicken coop. The crash reveals the roots of a family conflict and forces Gaby to confront the air balloon pilot as well as her past. ...

WILL (2023)

Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II. ...

ITA Live: Oedipus (2021)

It is election night. Oedipus is on the verge of a massive victory. The country has not known a leader for many years since Laius' death. The ambitions are great. Oedipus wants to create a future, create a new way of life. He also insists, if elected, that ...

Roman Tragedies (2021)

In Roman tragedies, Ivo van Hove and Jan Versweyveld have created a unique arena in which Shakespeare speaks about our time more than ever and the political game in all its facets. ...

Medulla (2019)

Charles Dujardin - psychiatrist - starts losing his precious sense of control when Lotte, a seductive and promiscuous client offers her confession. Her story takes hold of his mind. After his ailing wife is sped off to the hospital Charles grows obsessed w ...

Shorts After Dark (2019)

To find real happiness, you need only to look within yourself - but what these characters find is revolting. An anthology of only the most disturbed short horrors. Only palatable after the sun goes down. ...

Façades (2017)

When her mother abandons her dementing father, Alex unexpectedly finds herself at a crossroads. As she moves back in the parental house to look after her father, she starts questioning her own life. Does she want to stay with her adulterous husband? She to ...

Joy Palace (2017)

After her daughter's death, Vivianne neglects herself and her house. Since twenty years, she tries to fill up emptiness with stuff. But the situation becomes unbearable and she takes a dramatic decision to get rid of her grudging sense of guilt. ...

The Day My House Fell (2017)

Three adult brothers, Hein, Pé and Roemer, live with their elderly mother Hillie. This eccentric family lives in an old, crooked house that is on the verge of taking its last breath before toppling over. Every year, it is pulled straight again by its four ...

Quality Time (2017)

Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences. ...

Brimstone (2016)

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn't commit. ...

Hallo Bungalow (2015)

A comedy about three woman working at a boring holiday resort and their criminal employer. ...

The Surprise (2015)

An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract. ...

In the Heart (2015)

Masha is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status. ...

Allez, Eddy (2012)

When the village's first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy's isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race of which the winner will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy's father, a fervent oppo ...

Webcam (2011)

Bachelor Antoin is tired of being alone. His neighbor Rob decides to help him, and brings Antoin into contact with Russian Natasha who moves in with him. What Antoin not know is that Natasha actually the secret internet lover of married Rob, and the arrang ...

Brownian Movement (2010)

A psychiatrist's adulterous past continues to haunt her and her husband after they move to India. ...

Happy Family (2006)

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 c ...

Wanted: Man (2005)

When Bas puts up the note Wanted: Man on the notice board of the local supermarket for his single mother, she does not know about it. The self-willed Bas tries to find a solution for the separation between him and his mother, who no longer knows how to cop ...

Bonkers (2005)

Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctively doe ...

Girl (2002)

Muriel moves from a small village to the big city of Brussels, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide. She rents a room from Laura, who has a room to spare now that her mother is in hospital. Laura is a vital and candid woman who has ...

De laatste dagen van het atelier Frans van de Staak (2002)

The importance of the Atelier as a meeting and working-place for independent or beginning filmmakers is highlighted in Last days of Studio Frans van de Staak a necrology of his films by Kees Hin (2002), which focuses mainly on Van de Staak's non-naturalist ...

Drift (2001)

Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the ...

Cheese (1999)

Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company. ...

Glint (1996)

Every scene of the film comprises a dialogue between a man and a woman. The dialogues are fragmentary, in other words, the dialogue in one scene does not tie in with that of the next. In addition there is no development in the relationship between the acto ...

Shadowland (1993)

When Laura was six, her parents got divorced and her father disappeared from her life. The happiness she experienced on her final journey with her father, when he danced with her at a flea market in Brussels, holds a special place in Laura's memory. When L ...

Traces of Smoke (1992)

A portrait of a woman and 26 witnesses who appear to be accusing her of something but we'll never know what. We'll never even know who she is and who the witnesses are. A complex experiment about space, voice and speech. ...

Nederland C (1985)

Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces) (1973)

The Herts Camera Sutra or The Palefaces (1973) is a militant and visually fragmented critique of Belgian bourgeois society, blending documentary collage with semi-autobiographical fiction. De Hert attacks the distractions of nationalism, religion, and popu ...