Herwig Ilegems

Het was niet koud, het sneeuwde niet

Two men wait in a deserted landscape for something or someone important. The weather is capricious, their conversations absurd. They meet a master and a slave. Will they be able to provide more clarity about their endless waiting?

Release Date:2024-11-08

Character:Wachtende Man 1

Head to Head

In Head to Head, Herwig Ilegems (1962) has a literal tête-à-tête with various animals. He carefully places his forehead on the beak, nose or forehead of an animal. Will it allow this? Ilegems has no idea. He does not want to force the animal, so he first tries to establish a relationship of trust. In the endearing short film, you see how he allows himself to be comforted by an ostrich, rubs noses with an alpaca and tries to avoid the horns of a bull.

Release Date:2023-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:himself

Two Summers

A group of friends get together thirty years after one of the group members died in a tragic accident while they were on holiday. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation changes rapidly into a nightmare, when some of the friends are blackmailed with footage from that terrible week three decades ago.

Release Date:2022-02-06

Character:Didier Verpoorten

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:34

F*** You Very, Very Much

Fed up with her banal existence, Ann ditches her life as it is. Dragging her two best friends along, she navigates a year of brutally-honest madness, enlightened by mental field trips to the Stone Age and unsolicited superhero advice.

Release Date:2021-08-01

Character:Willy Verschaeren

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

Nachtwacht - Volume 9

Release Date:2021-01-29

Character:Rama

Red Light

Three women become entangled in the world of human trafficking and prostitution when Esther's husband suddenly disappears. From completely different worlds, the lives of these women become intertwined. They discover that they need each other to escape from the difficult situations they find themselves in.

Release Date:2020-12-04

Character:Arts Hagar

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:22

Floodland

When a heavily traumatised girl of African origin is found wandering around the polders of the border region between Flanders and the Netherlands, Tara, a Dutch police inspector from Rotterdam, and Bert, a psychiatrist from Antwerp, begin to investigate.

Release Date:2019-03-22

Character:Dennis Degeyn

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:7

Clinch

A six-part series that revolves around the ultimate confrontation of three archetypal main characters who brazenly smash into each other's lives. In each episode, the three meet each other for the first time. Fate brings them together in a precarious situation where they are completely dependent on each other. Each episode revolves around one location, one situation: a car accident , a tour of a master house that is for sale, too long a driving lesson, too great a hospital room, a lift attached and detached as a springboard to escape reality .

Release Date:2016-02-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:4

No Offense

A large number of cartoonists are forced to present their work to a sinister tribunal. Any of its easily offended members can sentence the next cartoonist in line to an immediate death. Can the last one escape his fate?

Release Date:2016-02-06

Wat Mannen Willen

Release Date:2015-11-25

Character:Ambtenaar RVA

Vote Count:8

Nightwatch

Meet Keelin, Vladimir and Wilko, also known as The Nightwatch, a secret covenant with only one purpose: fight the evil from the underworld.

Release Date:2015-10-04

Character:De Collector

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

Professor T.

Eccentric criminal psychology Professor T is a successful police advisor but his unpredictable nature drives his colleagues crazy. He has a brilliant mind, but also several psychological and neurological disorders which make him a complex and often difficult individual. However, aided by the trusty and understanding Annelies and Daan they form a team of high-powered experts that Antwerp Homicide Department rely on. After Season Two, however, things change radically. This is a thinking person's television series.

Release Date:2015-09-13

Character:Paul Rabet

Episode Count:39

Vote Count:11

Bowling Balls

A movie about the rivalry between two motorcycle gangs.

Release Date:2014-12-17

Character:Maurice

Vote Count:20

Labyrinthus

Frikke, a 14-year-old boy, discovers a sinister computer game that uses real children from his neighbourhood as players. In a race against time Frikke must find the evil creator of this horrible game.

Release Date:2014-07-02

Character:Meneer Arnolds

Vote Count:48

Rue Royale

Rue Royale tells the urban, modern lovestory of Ila & Flynn, a young couple living in a squat in the city centre of Brussels. They've managed to survive properly by getting things for free & because of the love they feel for each other. The ideal world Flynn once pictured for Ila is now slowly losing it's charm & Ila will give him a choice that will change their lives forever.

Release Date:2014-03-12

Halfway

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.

Release Date:2014-02-26

Character:Max

Vote Count:9

Los Flamencos

Los Flamencos is a comedy about death. Starring Herwig Illegems, Peter Van den Eede and Mark Verstraeten.

Release Date:2013-09-07

Character:César Fleminckx

Vote Count:7

Groenten uit Balen

The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.

Release Date:2011-12-14

Character:Rik

Vote Count:18

Duts

Release Date:2010-11-15

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Character:Walter Duts

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:1

Crazy About Ya

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.

Release Date:2010-10-20

Character:Jules

Vote Count:13

Van Vlees en Bloed

Release Date:2009-01-01

Character:Herman

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:20

Samaritan

A sailor's life is thrown off course when his only son is chosen to be the immediate donor to save 5 lives.

Release Date:2008-11-30

Vote Count:4

Droomtijd

In a work-driven world where time is the ultimate dictator, a mysterious sandman spreads chaos and confusion. Even the best employees of the system get infected by his wondrous dream powder and lose sight of the once so dominating clock. Alex Deprins, future employee of the year, becomes one of those ‘victims’. In his dreams he comes into contact with a strange new world, where a lady in red captivates his heart. Once awake he has to make a difficult decision. Does he stay in his familiar, but deadly rule-bound world or does he seek the road to salvation in his dreams?

Release Date:2006-10-19

Character:Manager

Gender

On June 3rd 1968, Factory member Valeria Solanas shot three bullets in Andy Warhol's chest. Solanas' extreme feminism and Warhol's eccentric entourage were the inspiration for Gender - a transgender black comedy in which the wacky plastic surgeon, Valerie, finally meets her gay biological father, Desire, and confronts him.

Release Date:2004-11-27

Vote Count:2

Ellektra

Ellektra is a story about comfort. The main character Sam finds real comfort and is released from her virtual comfort, drugs. Her true comfort is the sixteen year old girl Ellen, who puts people suffering from severe misfortune into contact with each other through SMS, and gives new meaning to their lives.

Release Date:2004-10-05

Character:Psylo

Vote Count:4

Zone Stad

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.

Release Date:2003-12-13

Character:Lex

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

Thread

A motorcyclist draws a red line in the middle of the desert. The line must never be broken, nor be passed.

Release Date:2000-01-01

Vote Count:1

Kiekeboe: Het witte bloed

The Kiekeboe family goes on vacation to the "The New Paradise". Camping Along rides Kiekeboe a man with a wound from which white blood comes. An ambulance takes the man chased him. Surprised, the family decides to forget the incident and continue their journey.

Release Date:1992-06-18

Character:Leon Van der Neffe

Vote Count:2

Kassa Kassa

Kassa Kassa is a tragicomic series set in the Stans brothers' supermarket, a small, independent neighborhood supermarket on the verge of bankruptcy. The colleagues form a close, warm group of friends, but their well-intentioned actions often make things even more difficult.

Episode Count:1