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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Rima who fled Syria with her family, struggles with her integration in Brussels. Caught between tradition and modernity, she draws her memories of her previous life in dialogue with an Iranian filmmaker, herself a newcomer to Belgium.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Documentary about a couple of American tourists on a two-week European tour.
- A film adaptation of Michèle-Ann De Mey's "Sonatas 555" - choreographic variations on the highways and byways of love.
- Sabri left to combat in Syria, leaving his family alone in the face of such sudden and unbearable absence. Saliha, his mother, decided not to keep silent. Her story intertwines that of other parents who unite and fight against the youth indoctrination by the jihadist networks.
- 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.
- "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.
- When Huntington's disease occurs, it changes body, soul, moods, thoughts, emotions, energy and also relationships with nearest and dearest. Once diagnosed, every carrier faces the test of time in a unique way. How to reinvent oneself, while evolving together with the disease? A film about the art of living in perpetual metamorphosis.
- '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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Saint-Josse-ten-Noode is the smallest borough in Brussels, the capital of Europe. It is also the poorest. A socialist Mayor has been ruling there for almost 50 years, defending the right to difference and staying attentive to the community. The film draws a subtly shaded picture of a political entity, as one might find anywhere in the world, forming a portrait of an out of the ordinary Mayor, in the daily practice of his duties.
- 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.
- In northern Chile, at the beginning of this century, the industry of saltpetre drove people into the Atacama desert where they built up a town, Victoria, a symbol of modernity and prosperity. Today, Victoria is a ruin with 6 inhabitants where there only remains traces of a glorious past. The film reconstructs the course of events that doomed Victoria to oblivion.
- 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.
- "On the Tip of the Heart" - is a documentary on the St Peter's Hospital in Brussels, structured around seven doors from the maternity to the morgue. This is an opportunity for the director to ask the audience a question, namely: what is there in common between a medieval city, human life and a hospital?
- 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.
- 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.
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen was no ordinary place of detention. This former STASI preventive prison did not appear on the maps of East Berlin and had the sinister particularity of having as many interrogation rooms as cells. Symbol of the repressive system of the former GDR, its real function was psychological "decomposition". Three testimonies today echo this topology of terror, in the absence of the torturers. "There are always people who say: you cannot change men by force. They say: it's not so sure, we know our job and have a lot of time.
- In Der Dämmerstunde - Berlin is both a personal exploration of Berlin's streets and a profound reflection on the city's history.
- Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall dividing Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement's Polisario Front, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment.
- Ahemt is a Turkish taxi driver who is married with Oliva, a Spanish housewive. They speak French, he is muselman and she is catholic.