Belgium’s Foreign Oscar nom: Ben X

It won plenty of awards at the Montreal Film Festival and now Nic Balthazar's directorial debut Ben X has been named as Belgium's entry for the foreign language Oscar. Variety points out that the Flemish-language drama was unanimously selected by a jury of Belgian film professionals

Ben is different. His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favourite online computer game Archlord avidly, trying hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of hell. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite comes into his life, the girl he has met in his on-line game. That wasn’t part of the plan…