Cinema of Belgium

Cinema of Belgium
No. of screens468 (2022)[1]
 • Per capita4.7 per 100,000 (2010)[1]
Main distributors20th Century Fox 19.2%
Upi 16.6%
Walt Disney Pictures 12.3%[2]
Produced feature films (2009)[3]
Fictional36 (76.6%)
Animated4 (8.5%)
Documentary7 (14.9%)
Number of admissions (2022)[5]
Total13,683,579
 • Per capita1.97 (2012)[4]
National films2,245,230
Gross box office (2022)[5]
Total€124 million
National films€20.2 million

Cinema of Belgium refers to the film industry based in Belgium. Belgium is essentially a bi-lingual country divided into the Flemish (Dutch-speaking) north and the French-speaking south. There is also a small community of German speakers in the border region with Germany. Belgium is further a federal country made up of three regions (the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region) and three language communities (the Flemish Community (Dutch-speaking), the French (i.e., French-speaking) Community and the German-speaking Community). Due to these linguistic and political divisions it is difficult to speak of a national, unified Cinema of Belgium. It would be more appropriate to talk about Flemish or Dutch-language cinema of Belgium and Walloon or French-language cinema of Belgium.

  1. ^ a b "Cinema operation in Belgium".
  2. ^ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 16 September 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Country Profiles". Europa Cinemas. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)".