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In a surreal, black-and-white world, Rémi, an experienced but reckless thief, narrowly escapes from a farm with a large sum of stolen money and a mysterious piece of jewelry. The dangers of his corrupt lifestyle don't usually bother him, but this time he finds himself in trouble.
A sommelier student observes the work of winemakers around Lantignié for a year. The seasons change, and with them the colors, the sounds, the rhythm of nature and human activities.
For Zahira, school offers a real chance to realize her dreams and to build a better life than her parents have had. Zahira dreams of becoming a teacher. But is dreaming enough to succeed?
If they manage to shoot the best video for a competition, Mike and his little brother, Tom, will win a trip to the Bahamas, where their father left to long ago.
Short documentary.
On August 21, 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City, after eleven years of exile. The killer, Ramon Mercader, a young Spanish communist, was a character straight out of a spy movie. He was recruited in 1937 by Stalin's secret service when the latter decided to eliminate Trotsky, that tireless opponent. Through the epic story of Trotsky's last years in exile in Mexico, enriched with flashbacks to his political past, this film, a true historical thriller, offers a cross-narrative between Trotsky's life in exile and the setting up, at the same time, of "Operation Duck", the code name for his assassination.
A mysterious object from the 20th century is being studied by an archeologist from the future.
Alfred wants to get rid of things, but gets lost in the process. The car is moving, but too fast.
From 1974 to 1977, Lucas Vereertbrugghen and his crew filmed anonymously under the name 'The Present as History' in Nazareth, Acre, and Galilee, where Palestinians lived in bleak conditions. They also filmed in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and Ramallah and, with the help of a friendly Palestinian couple, in several destroyed villages in the Golan Heights and Gaza. Everything was shot on Super 8, both for financial reasons and to preserve secrecy. The film was later converted to 16 mm and won a bronze medal at the Baghdad Festival in 1978.
Punk ode T4T slut: a BDSM power struggle with a screwdriver
How to carry life inside you while surrounded by the threats of death? In blockaded Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), a pregnant mother carries both hope and fear, as war, hunger, and deprivation threaten the fragile life within her.
A teenage girl, her young brother and their mother cycle through a desolated area, seeking for the sea. While the children bravely hang on to the hope of escaping this seemingly doomed place by boat, the mother seems to be eaten up with despair.
A film student is dealing with a break-up.
As they prepare for their 20th birthday, twin sisters Alma and Lilith awaken a painful past that forces Alma to confront her deepest fears.
Urbanus reached the milestone of 70 at the beginning of 2019, but he has by no means lost any relevance. The godfather of all Flemish stand-up and other comedians has been touring major venues for some time with his new show "Trecto Pnix". The results of that can be found on this CD and bonus live DVD. New sketches and well-known songs, mostly from Urbanus’ latest studio album "De Legende", guarantee an hour and a half of wild fun.
A divorced man needs a picture.
Short film Wouter De Paepe directed for the song "Sheep" by The Muttons.
In the heart of a big city threatened by an impending danger, a man and a woman barricade themselves in a hotel room.
In different Brussels living rooms and bathrooms, parents cut their children’s hair. This mundane yet intimate act reveals a world of emotion and connection. While the children resist or, on the contrary, completely surrender to the moment, parents conscientiously try to accomplish their task. Between scissors and clippers, silence and conversation, tender rituals unfold that reveal the bond between parent and child.
A fascinating hall of mirrors through a montage of film noir scenes where the actors face a painted portrait. This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit. He guides us through living rooms and picture galleries of 1940s and 1950s noir crime thrillers, gothic melodramas, and ghost stories.
The voices of Jamal's North African friends, imprisoned in detention centers, come from the mountains around the metropolis of Athens. He, confined to a small room on the eighth floor of a half-abandoned building, searches for the words that would resolve the labyrinth of life and existence.
A bombed city under martial law and powers on the verge of a new war gives home to deceit and uncertainty in 1948 Vienna. The city, divided among the allied powers, is also hosting the filming of The Third Man. Its star, American actor Orson Welles, spends his after-hours in the well-known Hotel Orient, soon to be disturbed by Soviet troops led by a young officer. On his mind is only one mission: how can he use the strengths and weaknesses of the great Orson to change the course of history, while in the U.S. big Hollywood names are targeted in the Red Scare initiating the McCarthy era?
Marseille, Spring. Two Chinese women spend several days together in a 19th-floor apartment overlooking the city as they both look for direction in their lives.
In apnea, with a fulfilled throat, time twists like the body under tension. Pleasure shared to the point of hallucination.
"J'ai mal à ma maman", produced with the Uccle art school's film workshop, continues the same themes thirty years on, in a more fictionalized mode, but intertwined (“Why do you think you're Jewish? Because I hurt my mom”): the mother and the fantasized condition of being Jewish. The relationship with women other than the mother also appears, whose love carries a final note of hope, rare in Paquot's work.
A class of thirteen-year-old danglers persuades the school administration to start speaking proper civilised Dutch. This takes place at a boarding school with a conflict situation between a young, idealistic and a brutal teacher.
Belgian horror short from 1971.
When Loesje goes to sleep, she dreams about Bumba, Bumbina, and the circus director. Bumbina gives her a ribbon as a gift and teaches Loesje how to dance with it.
21-year-old Sam Carton, after amputating her leg due to untreatable CRPS, embarks on a journey to surf and pursue her dream of becoming a photographer.
At night, a man stands in the middle of the road. He paints the white markings black. His mind gradually slips back into a faraway realm created by his illness. Some time later, at the mental institution, as he tries to retain a fragile grip on reality, the delusional account of his past begins to unravel. Losing his sense of reality disturbed his life, but at the same time creates an opening for a possible recovery and new hope.
Lengé is a Baka pygmee. Among his people, in the Equatorial Forest of South-East Cameroon, Lengé is a tale-teller. He knows the stories of the beginning of the world and the melodies of Tibola, the white elephant. He saw the bird Fofolo, flying after the sun's rays. Deep from the distant ages, Lenge's face and voice recall Gbanga-Tita, God's calabash. "There was the river, the forest and the children..." He is the last tale-teller in this part of the forest.
hold on to her traces a lived social infrastructure of care, solidarity, and struggle that addresses a recent case of police and state violence in the context of migration border control in Belgium.
Fred and Nina, a precarious couple, are desperately trying to have a child. After 6 unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization, they learn that the 7th will not be reimbursed by their mutual insurance company. To earn money, Fred decides to become an erotic dancer. Nina conditionally accepts. But when Fred becomes more and more familiar with the world of sex work, discovering a new way of living his masculinity, he no longer respects the conditions imposed by Nina. The couple begins to fall apart. Can they overcome this ordeal?
Wouter takes stock of the situation. How far along is he in saving the honeybee? Are his children, thanks to their free school, on track to take over his business later? Can he help his friends with the mess they've made of their relationship? And does Wouter simply have deep interests? Or are they obsessions, as his wife seems to suggest?
KAYAK reads the same backwards as forwards.
Some birds, like every year, migrate south to enjoy the warmer climate. Snacks and drinks are provided and the trip will take about ten hours according to the GPS. But during the first twelve minutes they already find out what kind of trip it will be this year.
Maremoto (Mar) is a young illustrator in Mexico City struggling to make sense of a town where 11 women are murdered daily, and 95,000 people have gone missing, with no one held accountable. Her feminist drawings support her community in dealing with the emotional trauma left by the femicides and galvanize them to fight to get the government forces to act. With her work, Mar also creates a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community and teaches self-acceptance."
To escape IS jihadis, a Yazidi mother and her two daughters hide in a cave on Mount Sinjar. The film depicts their daily struggle to survive.
Morgen observes young individuals. An insight into their microcosm, looking at how they spend their time while together or alone.
December 5, 1957. London is once again being held hostage by a thick pea soup fog. The ever reliable Bus 11 drags itself through the horrible weather when Eddie Adams gets on. Publicly he is known as a brilliant researcher at the University of London, but unbeknownst to the rest of the world he is a Soviet spy. On the bus his boss is waiting for him: Jerry Gerard, who expects a piece of critical information. A meeting is about to take place.
From the music of Argentine composer Gabriel Chwojnik, Turkish-Belgian filmmakers Imge Özbilge and Sine Özbilge pay an homages to the mother of experimental and avant-garde film director and artist, Maya Deren. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
A single part of a three channel work, called Here, Her, Heart, Hovers depicts a young girl engaged in shadow play. A plain white sheet is all that stands between her and her grandmother, to whom she describes an ever-evolving world and everything what has come to pass in a lifetime. In witnessing from a place of childlike wonder, what starts in innocence quickly escalates to something more shrewd and disorienting.
Robert does not like going to bed as he thinks there are monsters in his room, hiding in the dark. His mother leaves the landing light on and his door ajar. But that does not stop the little boy’s imagination from conjuring up his deepest fears! Fortunately, he has his teddy bear to help him...
William plays the freeloader at receptions and tries to keep up appearances... until he meets Anne-Claire, an executive on the verge of burnout. For one evening, William draws her into his world, even if that means exposing his desires and weaknesses.
Aurore decides to have a photoshoot to restore her self-confidence. The image she has of herself complicates when her teenage daughter comes home early.
A journey to the sea through the ex-votos of the South of France. A dive into the life of 19th century sailors and its dangers. The evolution of their beliefs towards a society where religion is erased by pragmatism.
Children and animals deform, are transformed and are bound to illustrate the feeling that we can have of its body and the space that it occupies, under the other people’s opinion or the own eyes.
It’s 2018, and Belgian theater director Tom Struyf finds himself by chance in Willard, a tiny hamlet in New York State whose only street ends at a vast lake. On one side of the street stand wooden houses that have clearly seen better days. On the other stands the ruin of the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane.
In a deserted landscape where animals are affected by a distant rumble, a character emerges. Sinking deeper into the auditive world, sounds start to vibrate, time slowly loses its function and a storm erupts. The character listens carefully as a dark tower seems to absorb his sonorous memories.
Guided by a sentence from my childhood, I encounter three people in Paris: A collector of lost objects, a princess in Disneyland and a coffee seller. A reconciliation with my hometown through a dialogue with strangers. Through a mirroring effect the first person narrative echoes the stories of those filmed questionning the possibilities of the documentary encounter.