Frans Buyens Movies

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

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...

Documentary about the Belgian artist Frits Van den Berghe.

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 documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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