Tom Barman – Belgium – 2003

In the Flemish port city of Antwerp on a warm day in June. Natalie, her brother Chouki, her boyfriend Walter and his ex Lara, the gallery keeper Firmin, unhappily married French language teacher Paul Garcin, a couple of party-loving studs from Ghent (another Flemish city) and the weird mister Winterman, independently go about their lives, which have little in common, yet all end up on the same place for a grand party that evening.

‘Any way the wind blows’ is the debut film of Tom Barman,  the frontman of Belgian’s most popular rock band ‘dEUS’. With the beautiful city of Antwerp and its blowing wind as myserious main characters, Barman’s film is a mosaic  filled with family crises, romantic entanglements and eccentric coincidences. It’s a wild, ambitious and playful debut that “brought back the rock ’n roll to Flemish cinema,” as a reviewer wrote.

Duration: 127 minutes

Language: Dutch, English, French (English subtitles)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOwZsod1_00