Frans Buyens Movies

A rainy evening in the harbor of Antwerp. A man named Laarmans is on his way home even though he doesn't want to. Three lost Eastern sailors are...

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.

A bitter, miserable man runs a chaotic secondhand store, mistreating both his assistant and his customers. One day, a young brother and sister enter...

Commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the SS camp Breendonk. Students meet resistance fighters who were imprisoned there....

'Waar de vogelstjes hoesten' is a rare, satirical fable presented as a fantasy musical. The film tells the surreal love story of a flower girl and a...

The deeply socially engaged documentary filmmaker Frans Buyens had long dreamed of making the transition to fiction filmmaking. The experimental...

This film deals with the experiences of children in concentration camps. The more so because it discloses, above all, circumstances that have...

This film deals with the fate of children during the Second World War. The Nazis divided children into two categories: “the good ones,”...

Self-taught filmmaker Frans Buyens captures in Fighting for Our Rights the monumental Belgian workers’ strike of 1960–61, protesting the...

Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the...

Following the archival horror of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, this poignant documentary chronicles a study trip organized by the...

A compilation film, divided into four separate segments, that explores the life and work of the Flemish expressionist painter Frits Van den Berghe...

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow...

An interview with Ernest Mandel directed by Frans Buyens in 1972.

A forty-year-old man loses his work and is unemployed. There is a continual coming and going between uncomfortable in his own skin unemployed person,...

The adaptation of a play performed by the Stap theatre group, a company that organizes theatrical performances featuring actors with a mental...