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- One hot and stormy summer by a touristic lake, seventeen-year-old Purdey and her younger brother Makenzy walk the line between experiencing adolescence, finding love and fending for themselves.
- The story of the Dutroux criminal case in Belgium told by the generation of children, now grown up, who were exposed far too early with ignominy in the privacy of their homes in the mid 90s.
- While he wishes to have a child with the man he shares his life with, the director embarks on a journey to meet families. What if all it took was to change one's perspective for a realm of possibilities to arise from an impossibility?
- Kunyaza is the name for the technique through which Rwandese women manage to ejaculate. In this tiny African country female orgasm is a matter of honor for men. This documentary, led by a young woman who is a radio star, offers a trip through the villages to recover, with humor and spontaneity, old local traditions about this culture of feminine pleasure: a millennial art that, however, some try to eradicate.
- This documentary about addiction is seen through the eyes of a mother and her son.
- Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric's novel 'A Bridge over the Drina' describes a years-long conflict of the local people of the Bosnian region around the town of Visegrad. This short documentary rightly evokes associations with the novel. As a kind of annex to the novel, the film combines the scenes of the bridge with the testimony of Mevsud Poljo from the nearby village of Vlahovici, who was pulling dead bodies out of the Drina in order to identify them. Although we do not see Mevsud, we get to know how many men and how many women were among the dead, whether there were traces of violence or rape on them - And the Drina keeps flowing under the bridge.
- At the end of the world, three men face the southern sea and its dangers. They leave their families, brave the cold and the storms to meet isolated fishermen in the sadly famous islands of the far south of Chile.
- When they are home, they are called Maureen, Damien, Camille, François. But when they get at the camp, they roll up their sleeves and become Choucas, Chickaree, Shiba or Akita. Secluded from the rest of the world, their interactions become more intense. They wash themselves in the river, they hide to text, boys spy on girls and everyone is always ready for a good laugh. But when the rain starts to threatens the re, that the Scout leaders get angry and that mobile phones are con scated, the smallest things can cause dramas. More than a documentary about Scout camps, Scouts is an incursion into the merry chaos of teenagehood.
- In military terminology, INNER LINES are parallel routes near the enemy lines, enabling evasion. Around Ararat, "the white centre" that illuminates "the darkest times", they are used by messengers and their carrier pigeons to connect the communities scattered by conflict. Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd continues his powerful political and poetic body of work (LES TOUMENTES, LES ETERNELS) with this film shot in 16mm between Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh. Remaining faithful to a formal approach blending the outline of the film-image with the asynchronous sonic off-camera - harrowing testimonies, biblical narrative, whispered secrets, political discourses and rants, close or distant explosions -, he walks alongside Yazidis or Armenians ravaged by the insatiable Moloch of war. Voices bring humanity to bleak landscapes, bodies lean over to listen to age-old stones laden with memories and gazes burn with inextinguishable inner sorrow. Vandeweerd remains the essential and exacting filmmaker-geographer of lost territories.
- While shooting a family movie in Venice, a filmmaker wonders how family images play a part in love and death stories.
- Without really being a photographer, Boris Lehman has taken and owns a lot of photos. Almost all - estimated today at a few hundred thousand - are locked in boxes, envelopes, and cupboards, protected from light and dust.
- In 1991 the filmmaker met several homeless boys in Burundi. They agreed to be filmed as they grew up. In 2018 he recorded their fourth meeting. Some had died. Three reflect their existence in poverty and their hopes for a better life.
- Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US government so that it could build one of its largest and most secretive military bases overseas. As the military lease is about to expire, Chagossian exiles are attempting to recover their home in the middle of the Indian Ocean from Great Britain. The charismatic woman leading their fight in the UK is Sabrina Jean. Through unrelenting activism, including the exile community's improbable participation in the World Football Cup for Stateless People, she strives to keep the flame of hope alive in her community with one single goal: to return home. But as the elders disappear and memory fades, time is running out.
- The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. He was surrounded by his team, of which I was a member. In this unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo. In a letter addressed to him in the form of a film, I return to Greece. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders. Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows.
- Purificacion Crego is incarcerated since 11 years in the prison of Avila, at 100 km from Madrid. Today, she's 29 years old. She's two weeks away from leaving jail. La tercera vida is an encounter with this woman, in prison since she was 18, and who's about to get back to freedom. It's a closed door portrait, an intimate and spontaneous testimony during which the events of her past, her daily life in prison and her perspective on freedom are unveiled.
- A portrait of those forgotten by the most mediatised war : The North-Vietnamese cameramen.
- Gigi, his girlfriend Monica and some friends are living near the train station Bucharest-North. When 15-year-old Monica gets pregnant, Gigi is forced to find a solution.
- Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
- A fascinating, revealing, and poetic documentary exposing the disappearance, obliteration, and omission of a culture. The disappearance of a humanist equilibrium during the Ottoman Empire and the willful erasing of the nonconformist history of a city that did not adhere to the nationalistic ideology that turned the Balkans upside down and continues to do so. The ancient Jerusalem of the Balkans has become a forgotten city, a "judenfrei" city. Organized like a stroll around the urban environment and accommodating the words of survivors of the extermination camps of 1943, the film puts together fragments of memories and nostalgia to witness the exceptional past of the city. A Thessaloniki-born director tries to raise his own cinematic voice, to refuse the elimination and silence which are like a second death, more definitive than the first.
- A story of a simple man whom his each different decision facing an incident opens several dimentions in the future.
- A poetic inquiry following the paths of Stephan and Henri, two men who died in their forties a few years ago, one in Brussels and one in Brest.
- 61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a nationalist leader who intended to use his country's enormous wealth for the benefit of his people. He became the first Prime Minister in the history of Congo on June 30, 1960, when the country gained its independence after 80 years of Belgian colonial rule. Seven months later, he was assassinated in Katanga province with two of his best political allies: Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo. Their bodies were dissolved in sulfuric acid and only one of Patrice Lumumba's teeth remained. This "relic" was taken from Lumumba's corpse and kept in secret by a police commissioner until his death in 2000. The assassination of the nationalist and anti-colonialist leader was followed by the advent of the dictator Mobutu, who was able to remain in place until 1997, thanks to Western support. These events had a gigantic impact on the history of Congo, and still shake the country today. Historical research has proven that Belgium, the United States, the United Nations all played a role in the murders of Lumumba, Okito and Mpolo. In 2001, a parliamentary commission admitted Belgium's moral responsibility in these crimes and in June 2022, the Belgian government officially returned Lumumba's tooth to his children. A key stage in Belgian post-colonial history. This film follows the highly political celebrations of the return of Lumumba's tooth to Congo and questions the legacy of one of the great political leaders of decolonization.
- On January 31 1980, in Guatemala, while the civil war between the military dictatorship and the Marxist guerrillas drags on, 32 representatives of Indian peasant associations arrive from each corner of the country and occupy pacifically the Spain embassy to claim their rights. None of them come out of it alive. All are burned live by the military junta in power. Only the ambassador survives. In memory of that massacre, today, Why do humans burn? Takes a critical look at the present.
- While most of Cameroon's Pygmies still live in the bush, a handful of families have moved to a paved road in a village where their daily lives balance between maintaining traditions and adapting to Bantu society. The film takes us to meet the Pygmies of the road, a small community at a crossroads.
- In 1918, war veterans were young. Each of their many voices were the memory of their war. In 1998, only a few are left.
- Arnaud is a young man of twenty. Following the death of his mother three years ago, he has dropped out of his studies and taken refuge in food to fill the void. He now weighs 177 kilos and lives with his father, with whom he quarrels constantly. Arnaud has reached the point where he has decided to undergo a stomach reduction operation....
- A woman no long young seats in her dirty and dusty flat. She does nothing, she only thinks.
- "Go and see what we left behind." With these words in mind, a filmmaker journeys into the discovery of an almost abandoned and little known country: Albania. Her film offers an overview of the tormented past sixty years in the country.
- Bucharest. A block of flats and its inhabitants, snapshots of a life lived.