Koen De Graeve

Do we still sing the praises of folly like Erasmus, or is it trendy again to be smart? And if so, who is the smartest? Who can talk about the medals won at the Olympic Games in London, but at the same time knows who Captain Haddock is? Who knows whether Lacan was a hair growth product or a psychoanalyst and can also program their own digital television? Who has déjà vu when leafing through the Encyclopedia Britannica and when reading the interviews with the new Miss Waregem Koerse? Who, oh who, is the smartest person in Flanders, Belgium, Europe, and by extension, the world? That is determined by a fierce battle between three fellow human beings. Every day, someone is eliminated, someone who may not be the smartest, but who is perhaps cherished in their family circle because of their many other talents. The others advance and are joined by a new challenger every day.

Twelve ordinary people are called for jury duty for a controversial murder case.

Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible.

The series Auwch revolves around everyday painful and embarrassing situations in which the main characters are constantly getting into, with the familiar awkward silences result ... the apparent inability of men to understand women, is it often central, but also the awkwardness in dealing with friends and with fellow VIP's in their professional lives.

Brabant'ın en büyük uyuşturucu satıcılarına yapılan polis baskını sonucunda bir boşluk oluşunca para arayışındaki Ferry Bouman'ın eline harika bir fırsat geçer.

After two years in prison, professional con man Alidor Van Praet needs to rebuild the illegal fortune the police seized from him. When he spots 19-year-old Jeremy Peeter’s hacking skills at a computing convention, he knows this shy teenager is the key to making it happen and to get revenge on the financial system that drove his father to suicide.

After he’s laid off, Dirk Porrez is more determined than ever to get back to work. He establishes ‘Safety First,’ a private security firm that provides security services at all kinds of events. We follow the adventures of Dirk, Smos, Ingrid and Luc, four former colleagues who formed the company together. Although they’re good at maintaining their friendship, they excel at utter incompetence.

In this Flemish detective series, the Dutch title of which means in the act, notably "in flagrante delicto", a team of the Belgian (national) police lead by John Nauwelaerts investigates serious crimes, often against the clock as victims sometimes may still be in danger. Special attention is also given to the legally necessary, but sometimes frustrating, interaction with the judicial authorities, other police forces (this inefficiency required a major reform in reality), various experts and lawyers.

Michelle, Guido and Frankie have been co-workers and close friends for years. But when their boss gets fired, Guido gets a promotion and is replaced by the odd Alain Van Damme. No normal day passes on this work floor where impossible situations, hilarious moments and odd people are just a daily thing.

Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010. In Bruges, some 200 cyclists and their entourage are getting ready for the 94th Tour of Flanders. A sea of supporters awaits them along the route, while millions more follow Flanders' finest on radio or TV. With the race as a backdrop, De ronde tells the story of a number of people who, like the cyclists, have everything to gain or lose today. The series originally had nine episodes, but these were recut to seven episodes for the DVD.

1993, behind the scenes of Belgium's first commercial television channel VTM. The actors of the popular sketch show "Studio Tarara" gradually lose themselves in a spiral of self-destruction that culminates in a mysterious suicide.

A sketch show with each sketch beginning with the question “what if.” A roller coaster of sketches that immerses you in life as it almost could be.

Belgium, the early 1980s. Jan Laureys wants to see the world and enjoy life, but reluctantly becomes a gendarme. His father, himself an officer in the gendarme, wants it that way. When Jan hears about the CDI, a new unit that will tackle drug criminals using American methods, he immediately applies. The CDI doesn't wear uniforms, so he can continue to parade around the barracks courtyard in his fashionable outfits. And so Jan meets Bob, an American DEA agent who comes to train the Belgian elite police force in American police techniques. After a major screw-up, the CDI loses a lot of money from the gendarme. To save face, they decide, on Bob's advice, to earn the money back by selling drugs themselves. As always, everything goes well... until it goes wrong. Especially for Jan.

The series focuses on the Vangenechten family of butchers. Business is going well until Rudy, the butcher couple's only son, suddenly returns home after years of absence. He refuses to say where he has been all this time, but he does want to come back home and work in the butcher shop.

In "Déjà-Vu" we follow Florence Fierens, a busy career woman and radio host. With her own morning radio show, she reaches a national audience and is committed to women's rights and against domestic violence. However, her seemingly carefree life is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Louise unexpectedly steps out of life. Grief-stricken, Florence searches for answers, together with her ex-husband and son. More and more it appears that Florence's life was not as perfect as she told herself.

Guy Moeyaert is a well-meaning colonial official in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the last years of white colonial rule, after the Second World War, a paternalistic system where the state, unable to be properly present all over the vast, sparsely populated country, collaborates systematically with the Roman Catholic missions -in his post, father Alexis- and private enterprise, in case mainly the mining company -locally represented by engineer Lenaers- which also helps out with money and labor for such public tasks as road building. Even his grip on the natives is weak, as they live under hereditary tribal leaders, which must take from its people what they are legally obliged to deliver to the state in taxes and labor; coercion is done by force, including whipping on the bare buttocks, which Guy hates. Guy also starts a love affair with Hélène Vermarcke, who gets estranged from her husband Luk (the three were already friends in Belgium) as he devotes all his efforts the their plantation, leaving her alone with the native staff and their son, or is it Guy's? The adultery makes his position in the white community far weaker then is compatible with his position of theoretical authority without sufficient independent means. He also depends heavily on his educated black clerk Gabriel Ndazaru and ambitious white deputy Arthur. It all gets worse for everybody as the call for 'dipenda', black independence as in Ghana, gets stronger, in time even accepted 'in principle' by the Belgian government which plans a gradual transition which the idealist Guy supports but all other whites oppose, while the natives have neither patience nor insight and start attacking every symbol of the old regime, regardless of its objective value, and soon white people and 'collaborators' too- it gets physically dangerous, but Guy won't budge or flee...

A young journalist starts working for the local Antwerp newspaper and has to deal with the disappearance of a young girl. What was first regarded as another silly story, soon appears to be a suspicious case with linkages to the political world. Just when the election campaign in the city of Antwerp is fully erupted.

Evli beş erkek. Lüks bir çatı katı. Metresler. Bir kadın cesedi. Çatı Katı'nın beş karakteri aynı zamanda beş cinayet zanlısı: Fazlasıyla güvenilir bir psikiyatr olan Chris, dost canlısı karizmatik mimar Vincent, sağı solu belli olmayan tehlikeli Filip, sesi soluğu çıkmayan Luc ve parti kuşu Marnix. Metreslerini çatı katına getiren bu beş adam arasında gizli bir anlaşma vardır, ama burada genç bir kadının cesedini bulmalarıyla beraber şüphe içinde birbirlerini suçlamaya başlarlar, çünkü evin yalnızca beş anahtarı vardır * Çatı Katı, Belçika sinema tarihinin en çok seyredilen ikinci filmi * Kadın erkek ilişkilerini sorgulayan ve katil kim sorusunu izleyiciye göreceli olarak sunan muhteşem kurgusuyla başarılı bir polisiye gerilim. filmde detaylar o kadar işlenmiş ki geri dönüşleri iyi kurgulayıp ters köşe yapmış.

Film, küçük bir kasabada fakir ve cahil babası ve üç amcasıyla birlikte yaşayan on üç yaşındaki Gunther'in ıstıraplı ergenliğe geçiş hikâyesini anlatıyor. Gunther baba evinde her gün fazlaca alkol, kadın, uygunsuz durum ve aylaklıkla karşı karşıya kalır. Görünüşe göre o da gelecekte aynı kaderi paylaşacaktır. Acaba bu talihsizlikten kurtulmayı başarabilecek midir? Oyuncuları ve teknik ekibinin deniz kenarında bisiklete çıplak binerek Cannes'ı çalkaladığı bu komedi, bu korkunç ailenin hiçbir berbat anını ıskalamıyor. Film, 2010 senesinde, İstanbul Film Festivali Uluslararası Yarışma'da En İyi Film ödülünü kazanarak Altın Lale ödülünün sahibi oldu...

Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the 'flying carpet'. The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy's freshmen friends Tom Smits and Denn

An unmarried thirty something businessman drives to work, being stuck in a traffic jam. He gets calls from his overprotective mom, as well as from his most helpful assistant. But today he feels a little more lucky, since the mysterious woman he has been following pulls up just next to him. He tries frantically to get in contact with her, but basic communication is not as evident as it seems to be ....

Five people fight themselves more than each other, in this existence that's so beautiful and incredibly hard at the same time.

A journalist is about to settle with his girlfriend when his life and views get shaken up by the young and beautiful Pakistani refugee Nadia. At work his ideals are more and more confronted with the harsh reality of modern urban society, while his flamboyant grandfather fights his last personal battle - a battle for his right to die.

A frank and funny romantic comedy set in Antwerp, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love has a lot to say about human relationships. It focuses on the four women of the Miller family: teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older half-sister Michelle, as they work their way through the chaos called love. The result is a roller coaster ride of first crushes, lust, affairs, baby fever, and indestructible love. The four women are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but are also sometimes a bit lost. Can their male counterparts handle this dangerous cocktail of determination and female hormones?

Gerçek bir olaydan yola çıkan, Nic Balthazar imzalı HAYATIMIN KARARI (Time of My Life), Belçika’da ötenazinin yasalaşmasına neden olan olaylar zinciri üzerine kurulu. Gençliklerinden beri birlikte olan dört arkadaştan Mario’ya MS teşhisi konulması hepsinin hayatını alt üst ediyor. Başarılı bir politikacı olma yolundaki Mario, ülkesinde ötenazinin yasalaşması için bir mücadeleye başlıyor.

When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old child. And Patrick's gone. Reunited with the old gang, Black Kelly realizes that life went on during her absence and that things will never be the same...

A scientist makes a discovery that allows him to send emails back in time, but meddling with his past may not give him the future he wants.

Masha is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.

When Max goes out looking for troll’s footsteps, he climbs the fence of luxury hotel Dikkersdorp. Caught by a security guard who mistakenly holds him responsible of a theft orchestrated by the mysterious Pie, Max is in trouble. Luckily, his new neighbor Sellie sets him free and, together, they meet with Trollie. Unfortunately, Sellie’s father hears about the troll and goes out of his way to expose the creature to the public. But Trollie is very miserable being put in display and Max stages his escape to reunite his troll friend with his family in the land of Ekeby.

In Crazy About Ya, different characters meet. Sometimes their stories are closely interwoven, sometimes they just brush past each other. But sooner or later everyone runs into the hero of this story, Saint Jan. As a true sanctus ex machina he makes sure that in the end, they are all a bit crazier about each other again.

Life is good for Nino van Doorn (8). He has a terrific brother Lucas (14), wise father Bruno and an angel of a mother, Marla. When Marla dies, Bruno can't cope with her death. Also the values like order, responsibility, love and care they represented. The two brothers create their own world. But soon the anarchistic world is threatened by the outside world. The two brothers are prepared to fool the system but what happens is that they really become a family again.

The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel.

Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, Felix discovers that his body is not made for the game.

When a Dutch family drives back home from a holiday in Germany and stops at a rest area, it is already clear this is probably their last trip together. But then a marital crisis, the heat, restless hormones and suppressed frustrations unexpectedly interlock.

Stef moved to a new home, but there is another man in his home, Theo. Theo is the previous owner of the house, he died a few years ago. Stef seems to be the only one who can see him.

Tensions rise at a classy restaurant. Both the staff and the guests show their true faces. A story about two social classes with their own secrets and facades.

Life is what happens, while you're busy making other plans