Film Fest Gent is Belgium’s most prominent annual film event, presenting some 100 features and 50 shorts to an audience of over 100,000 spectators. The festival is covered by the Benelux press and media and attracts increasing attention from foreign press and professional industry.

Variety called the festival one of the 50 “must attend fests”, and The Wall Street Journal catalogued it amongst the 5 European “fests with character”.