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- Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.
- A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- A diffraction of the autobiography using family footage filmed between the 1940s and today, this "science fiction documentary" creates multiple "I"s and transcends a story of mourning.
- We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals. Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe that they are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will be freed from their existence. This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Inhabited by the ghosts of genocide and by the war that has raged there for over twenty years, the characters who pass through this film carry within themselves the melancholy of the eternals.
- Summertime in the north Italian countryside. Giacomo, a nineteen year old who went deaf when he was young, and Stefania, his childhood friend, take a stroll along the river for a picnic. Having left the beaten track, they get lost and stumble across a paradise where they find themselves alone and free for an afternoon that seems to last the entire summer.
- The question of domestic slavery in our globalized world, while emphasizing those women's determination, sisterhood and the strategies they find to face the obstacles that awaits them in the near future.
- Hazem arrives in Belgium after a painful journey from Gaza. Elettra arrives in Brussels to study documentary film. Their first moments together trigger the desire to know each other and the camera becomes the tool they share for understanding. Exiles and inner migrations find a way to just and softened gazes.
- In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the cur Baatar is shot by a hunter hired by the authorities to get rid off the dogs in the city. Its soul recalls its life, when it was a shepherd dog of a family and was abandoned in the field and walked to the city. Then it recalls when it meets a young woman that is near to have a baby.
- Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.
- Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination. Soon he would be Patrice Lumumba's right-hand man...
- Cochihza, "she awakens the sleeping one", one says about the Cuicuitzcal swallow. Many words from the ancestors' language are derived from the root cochi - to sleep. It expresses both sleep and dream, but also lying down, dinner, subsistance, a cocoon built by caterpillars, eyelashes, leaving, yawning, making love to a woman, sleeping next to her, the place where one sleeps, waking up, pretending to sleep... Ometepe, the volcano island - Nicaragua. A landscape like a sleeping body. The Ancients describe life in two movements : one linear movement, like a walk; and one beat, emerging from the center. Each man adopts his own particular rythm at birth and keeps it for all his life. Within the encounter of the volcano's community and the guardians of its memory, a story of a world unfolds, a relationship to the island comes through.
- Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada
- On January 14, 2011, four weeks of national wide uprisings throughout Tunisia resulted in the overthrow of dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years of unchallenged rule. But, as unexpected and dazzling as it may have appeared to the eyes of the whole world, the Tunisian revolution is part of a much larger story. Democracy Zero Year retraces the scenes of three years of struggle, which range from the first revolts in the mining basin of Gafsa in January 2008 until the first free elections in October 20112.
- Tahiti, French Polynésia, another face of contemporary colonization born of the thirty years of French nuclear tests and the vital impetus of the Maohi people trying to survive and who, silently, are seeking the path of independence.
- Since the recent death of Nicolae Neacsu, star violinist of the Taraf de Haïdouks, things have taken a turn for the worse in Clejani, a village in the south of Romania. Young musicians without work chase away their depression with drugs and dreams of the West. Marius grabs his accordion and plays some gypsy blues to charm the moneylenders who demand their due, to seduce a beautiful chick or maybe even attract Johnny Depp who, it seems, promised to be godfather to his youngest child. Won, stolen, borrowed or exchanged, money is the only way to thwart the fate that dogs this small gypsy community. Clejani is a chasm at the end of a road. Some are willing to do anything to get away.
- Documentary about a couple of American tourists on a two-week European tour.
- Fabienne Roelants and Christine Watremez, anesthetists at the St Luc clinic in Brussels, are among the most renowned specialists in surgical hypnosis. Their voices guide thoughts and can recompose reality. As practitioners, they nurture the doctor-patient relationships that are often damaged by modern medicine, and invite our imaginations to take center-stage in operating theaters.
- Twelve young women aged 20 to 25 tell the story of their sexuality since childhood. In their room, face camera, they address the two women directors in prey to the same questions. They remember the first sensations, the hazardous explorations, the conversations in the dark and the unexpected obstacles. All are moved, each in their own way, by the same impulse: the quest for a fulfilling, free and egalitarian sexuality.
- A tribute to Pierre Michel (1949-1981), a singular artist.
- "Gabriel's Dream" - In 1948, four large, wealthy Belgian families sell all their belongings and embark on a voyage to Patagonia. Slowly most of them return, but Gabriel, one of the fathers, stays until his death in 1988.
- The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage, known as the spiritual father of the Striptease show, now has Alzheimer's at 76. Although his memory plays tricks on him, his daughter Emmanuelle goes back in time to portray a direct cinema filmmaker who was always close to the characters he so loved to film.
- In Der Dämmerstunde - Berlin is both a personal exploration of Berlin's streets and a profound reflection on the city's history.
- Depicts contemporary Iran at a turning point in its history, exposing both an extreme fundamentalism being fostered by its leadership and the seeds for change in its youth culture.
- A return to the country of origin, to discover the father, his life, his most hidden thoughts, his relationship with the past and with the mother of the director, who died a few years earlier. The film revolves around the letters written over the years by the protagonists of this story, weaving a thread that unites individuals near and far at the same time.
- Lubnan is a young man from Iraq who has just arrived in Belgium. While he is struggling to get his papers, he takes us on an existential journey through his feelings, thoughts and desires.
- A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are explored.
- A young man in a room somewhere in England. On a computer screen, images from all over the world. We cross borders in one click while the story of another trip reaches us in snatches, through text messages, chats, phone conversations, questioning at an immigration office. It is the journey of Shahin, a young Iranian who flees his country alone.
- Les Marolles, a working class district in central Brussels, just a stone's throw from the flea market. Built in 1949, inaugurated in 1953, the Baths continue to offer two swimming pools and public showers. A fabulous melting-pot, locals come to recharge their batteries, train, chat, find a sense of peace.
- Ahemt is a Turkish taxi driver who is married with Oliva, a Spanish housewive. They speak French, he is muselman and she is catholic.
- 'The world escapes me, I can't find my place but in my dreams, I'm it belongs to me', seem to say. Congolese media and their audiences in the choir. A socio- economic portrait of the 'Jet Set' Congoles through the League of Ambianceurs and people of elegance.
- Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in artificial silk factories. The US army was a substantial promoter of the nylons.
- As the last survivor of the Sonderkommandos, Silvano Lippi has forgotten nothing, from his arrest in the port of Piraeus up to the evening at a friend's house when he finally talked about his deportation. Then, he returns to the WWII camp.
- 12-year old Anton is spending his summer holidays at Kaskad military training camp, where he and 60 other Russian children are subjected to tough exercise regimens created by President Putin for the fight against Muslim Chechens.
- Arnaud is my little brother. One day I realized that he had grown up. He was born where people have no choices and he is trying to be what he should have been. Free.
- A few moments in the life of four girls who are busy... growing up. Almost imperceptibly, they get to the age of twelve, then twelve and a half, then thirteen. The mother of one of them (the director) watched them, as they grew, with tenderness tinged with a slight touch of worry. A chronicle of passing time.
- Frans Masereel is one of the most fascinating Belgian artists of the 20th century. His work, essentially composed of black and white engravings, is a cry of rebellion against the tragedies of his time. Forced into exile for his pacifist convictions, he embodied, alongside writers like Stefan Zweig and Romain Rolland, the dream of a cultural and brotherly Europe. Through an imaginary correspondence the director addresses to the artist, the film sketches the portrait of a free, touching man who, throughout his life, attempted to break free of art dealers and put his creations in the hands of all.
- Against a background of a Bulgaria heading towards economic and moral decay, Angelite Choir-Bulgarian Voices pours forth its sublime, compelling age-old music. Voices from Sofia follows a few members of that choir: women who, day by day, learn new rules - those of a capitalist world - and sway between gratitude and frustration as the grim reality of everyday life in Sofia alternates with the splendor and luxury of their concert tours abroad. A Balkan-Requiem in the form of a tragi-comedy.
- In a village south of Bucharest, two or three old Gypsies are the last depositories of traditional music. With them, go away ballads and ancestral stories. Between the game of dice and the only bistro of the village, the young people found new myths. The lambada gradually replaces the haidouks, the poor gypsies dream of going to the city to play fashionable tunes in the restaurants.
- A film adaptation of Michèle-Ann De Mey's "Sonatas 555" - choreographic variations on the highways and byways of love.