Millionaire couple saves cinema Sphinx in Ghent: “Everyone wants to invest in football, we invest our money in arthouse”

Bruno Lowagie and his wife Ingeborg Willaert settled in Ghent in 1988 as students. They initially discovered the Ghent cinema world in the then Decascoop (now Kinepolis). Thanks to the Ghent film festival, they quickly found their way to the less traditional cinemas, which are shown in the Studio Skoop and Sphinx. “One week we only saw Passolini films, the next week it was Kubcrick. A whole new world opened up for us, immigrants from West Flanders!”, says Bruno Louwagie. “It is then and there that our love for cinema arose, it is very important to us that the arthouse remains in Ghent.”

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