Movies: Frans Buyens

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

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, his mistress - a middle-class - and an exuberant and fragile girl....

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema....

Documentary about the Belgian artist Frits Van den Berghe....

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The strange story of a flower girl and a scarecrow who fall in love, move to the big city and become the victims of their own greed....

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 looking for a woman named Maria Van Dam and ask Laermans to show them the way. He decides to help them fi...

A miserable man owns a secondhand store. He is mean to his customers and to his assistant. One day, a boy and a girl come into the shop to sell a golden watch they are very fond of....

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow shipyard in Stralsund, small business owners in Chemnitz, LPG farmers in the countryside, foreign studen...

Film in cinéma-vérité style exploring the boundery between fiction and reality of actors and the roles they (have to) play....

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

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