Film Fest Gent

The Film Fest Gent , formerly Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (Dutch: Internationaal Film Festival van Vlaanderen - Gent) was held for the first time in 1974 in Ghent , Belgium . It takes place in October every year. The film festival is known for its focus on film music . The Georges Delerue Award for Best Music has been presented since 1992 and the World Soundtrack Award ( Grand Prix for the best film) as the highlight since 2001 .

Every year concerts with film music are held during the festival . Composers like Craig Armstrong , Elmer Bernstein , Carter Burwell , Michael Danna , Georges Delerue , Patrick Doyle , Harry Gregson-Williams , Maurice Jarre , Michael Kamen , Cliff Martinez , Ennio Morricone , Gustavo Santaolalla , Howard Shore , Gabriel Yared or Hans Zimmer had in Gent their appearances.

Award winners

Grand Prix for the best film

year	winner	Director	country
1992	Story of a woman (A Woman's Tale)	Paul Cox	Australia
1993	Passion Fish	John Sayles	United States
1994	La Partie d'échecs	Yves Hanchar	France / Belgium
1995	Cyclo (Xích Lô)	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnam / France
1996	The village of my dreams (E no naka no boku no mura)	Yōichi Higashi	Japan
1997	The Witman Brothers (Witman fiúk)	János Szász	Hungary
1998	The seventh farmers	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria
1999	Himalaya - The childhood of a caravan driver (Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef)	Eric Valli	France
2000	Amores Perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico
2001	Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk	Canada
2002	The man without a past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)	Aki Kaurismäki	Finland
2003	In America	Jim Sheridan	Ireland
2004	Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai)	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan
2005	Three Burials (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)	Tommy Lee Jones	USA / France
2006	10 canoes, 150 spears and 3 women (Ten Canoes)	Rolf de Heer	Australia
2007	The Fakers	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria Germany
2008	Pazar - The Market (Pazar - Bir Ticaret Masalı)	Ben Hopkins	Turkey / Germany
2009	You shall not love (Einayim Pkuhot)	Chaim Tabakman	Israel
2010	The stranger	Feo Aladag	Germany
2011	Jelena	Andrei Svyagintsev	Russia
2012	taboo	Miguel Gomes	Portugal
2013	The Selfish Giant	Clio Barnard	Great Britain
2014	Gente de bien	Franco Lolli	Colombia
2015	Ixcanul - Dreams at the foot of the volcano (Ixcanul Volcano)	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala / France
2016	A quiet passion	Terence Davies	Great Britain / Belgium
2017	Zagros	Sahim Omar Kalifa	Belgium
2018	Cold War - The latitude of love (Zimna wojna)	Pawel Pawlikowski	Poland / France / Great Britain

Web links

Commons : Film Fest Gent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Film Festival Gent official website
• World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent

Individual evidence

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