René Metzemaekers

Three carefree students set out on a summer road trip across the Flemish countryside in a battered old car, hoping for adventure, romance, and fun. Along the way, they encounter colorful local characters and a variety of regional dialects and customs. Their lighthearted journey takes an unexpected turn when they become entangled in a bizarre espionage chase involving a Russian atomic spy and an American counterintelligence agent. Mixing slapstick comedy, travel adventure, and Cold War parody, the film follows the young travelers through a series of absurd and chaotic summer escapades.

Two Hungarian children, Ylonka and Ferenc, are taken in as foster children by a Flemish family during World War II. During the war, they are pursued by the occupiers because their foster parents joined the resistance and were arrested. At first, they try to earn money together and end up with the traveling painter Fedor, but various hardships separate them. Ylonka is sent to a reform institution, while Ferenc is taken in by kindly priests at their monastery. When, after the war, they finally have a father and mother who treat them as their own, a legal decree forces them back to Hungary.

A historical drama recounting the uprising of Flemish peasants against the armies of the French Republic in 1798–1799. The story is seen through the eyes of a family reluctantly drawn into the Peasants’ War, when their son is executed for sheltering a fugitive priest. In the aftermath of a raid on a French commander, Jan, the son-in-law, dons the commander’s uniform to steal the plans of a munitions depot in Wallonia—and set the entire building ablaze. Against all odds, he succeeds, but his triumph comes at the ultimate price: his life.

Whilst dreaming, a little boy in the company of Tijl (Uilenspiegel?) travels centuries back to the fairytale world with the help of two balloons.

When a father is in a coma after having been involved in a car crash his family is starting to have financial problems. It is an educational film, released with the aim of promoting the use of Dutch as the standard language in Flemish families.