38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Verboden te zuchten

Alex Stockman

Image Verboden te zuchten
Belgium
2000 Fiction 1h38
Brussels, autumn 1999. At the end of his first love affair, Joris, 26 years old, finds himself alone again. He decides to leave his favourite town for a sunnier location, Portugal. However, a premonition prevents him from going to the train station. He turns back and stops temporarily in an old hotel. Joris is going to stay four more days and nights under the influence of the city in a weird mood between memories and forgetting, dream and awakening.
With : Stefan Perceval, Stefanie Bodien, Senne Rouffaer, Jacqueline Bir, Josse de Pauw, Marie Bulté, Carole Trévoux ...
Screenplay : Alex Stockman
Image : Michel Baudour
Sound : Christian Monheim
Music : Daan Stuyven
Editing : Erik Lamens, Alex Stockman
Decors : Hubert Pouille
Production : Production : Corridor
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Born in Brussels in 1962, Alex Stockman was a translator-interpreter before becoming in 1991, a cinema critique for the weekly newspaper, "Humo". In 1993, he created the production company 404 FILMS with Kaat Camerlynck, which produced Violette (1994) and In de Vlucht (1996). Le Pressentiment is his first feature film.