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In The Fruit Tree a young woman, Sharleece, wanders through a house that is available to rent in the sleepy desert town where she lives, California City. Looking out of the window evokes unexpected memories of her childhood home in Los Angeles.
Moseka, a young woman from Zaire, travels to Belgium to study. With her braided hair and traditional clothes, she is the laughingstock of her fellow students who strive to look European, adopting wigs and European clothing. The film tells of the depersonalization of young Africans when they enter into contact with the European culture.
At rush hour, a fruit crowd throng into the metro to the frantic rhythm of the music. The metro stops abruptly and the fruits renounce their eagerness gradually, they begin to fall asleep and dream of a world where they grow on trees. But the metro reboots suddenly and they return to the harsh reality: the terminus.
The summer of 2010, like many other years. I stay with my parents in Tsukishima on the banks of a river that joins Tokyo Bay. An uneventful ritual visit except that I decided to go and see and hear my brother for the first time since he locked himself up in the darkness of his room, too small for his size. Will I meet a drunken monster who only shouts grotesque words at his sisteras I had imagined him to be for so long?
Finalists: Amelie Albrecht, Jasper Posson and Sander VDV. Jury: Guy Mortier, Tim Van Aelst, Guga Baùl, Elke Neuville and Seppe Toremans, supported by a professional jury. With guest appearances by Philippe Geubels and Jens Dendoncker.
Aya, 10 years old, has just suddenly lost the love of her life: her older brother. She tries to survive by clinging to what she can: her older brother's group of friends with whom she shares the pain of mourning and who remind her of the one she has lost. "Okht Elmarhoum" is a closed-door film that takes place in the bedroom of the deceased, the day after his death, where sadness, solidarity and tenderness are shared between 7 young men and a little girl.
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Two Moroccan brothers arrive in 1960s Belgium, chasing dreams buried deep in the mines of the promised land.
Thom’s best friend is Stoffel, a 25-year-old Shetland pony. Their friendship is special, because Thom is a boy on the autism spectrum and he doesn’t make friends easily. But the inevitable happens. Thom is getting bigger and won’t fit much longer on Stoffel’s back.
My friend Kirill, 34, seeks love but doesn’t find it. To live the ideal romance, he escapes into an imaginary life. He becomes, through his drawings, a vailant knight who declares his love to the princesses of his dreams. A famous rapper in his room, in front of his fans. But Kirill has down syndrome and reality always brings him back to this difference. Years go by and he is looking for his place in the real world. Through our conversations, I accompany my friend in his quest for love and ideal.
A bitter, miserable man runs a chaotic secondhand store, mistreating both his assistant and his customers. One day, a young brother and sister enter his shop, hoping to sell a cherished golden watch. Their arrival disrupts the owner's stingy routines, plunging the children into a surreal, unpredictable world managed by eccentric adults. Frans Buyens’ mid-length feature is a whimsical, satirical fable exploring the clash between childhood innocence and adult greed.
Déni is trying to find himself. His soul-searching takes him on the traces of his childhood, in the snowy landscapes of Kazakhstan. In an apartment decorated with thick drapes, he encounters his Chechen family and his patriarchal culture. At the mosque, or in the boxing gym, he discovers the closeness of the men of his “clan”. They are all virile and settled in their lives. He is struggling to find his place.
On a Caribbean island, half a century ago, a revolution created a new frontier beyond which, little by little, the outside world became vaporous, invisible, forbidden. Now, three old men, Luis, Carmelo, and Ernesto, let their imaginations wander. All around them busses full of tourists, ambassadors of a never-never land, come and go, triggering in the old men a deep longing for vanished ideals; love, time and the places they have never seen.
This story is about love and commitment of different city people who all adore their city Ghent.
“Carefully positioned, the camera begins on a single frame, the shutter held open, and then is imperceptibly increased in speed, quickening the frame rate and thus changing the exposure time for each successive frame, which slowly produces a visible moving image whose speed eventually falls into step with real time. For a film whose title describes the relatively simple mechanism used to create it, Gradual Speed ushers a series of startling transfigurations which brilliantly engage with the extended time spent with people, animals, events and objects in whose company the filmmaker sketches larger concerns of love, fixity, representation and loss.” — Julie Murray
This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.
Anyone who thought Alex Agnew would enjoy a well-deserved rest after Larger than Life was wrong. From September 2011, Alex was once again gearing up to air his views on the world. The show premiered in February 2012. And it turned out to be a dark show, because Alex is extremely annoyed by the Big Brother feeling that surrounds us today. The government constantly deciding what is good or bad for us, the general public thinking they can make or break people, media watchers steering us in certain directions. About the distorted form of social control that, strangely enough, goes hand in hand with a form of apathy. We are no longer Generation X, but Generation Nothing. We have so little to do that other people's lives become our entertainment. That's why the title of this show is "Interesting Times." Named after the curse the Chinese utter on someone they wish ill upon: "May you live in interesting times."
'Jeugdstorm', like 'Jongens die een vlag kunnen dragen' (by Jos Jacobs and Leo Uten from the same year), is a propaganda piece from the Catholic Chiro youth movement. The driving force behind this amateur project was Gust Geens, a Chiro leader and filmmaker from the Boechout-based film club Argos Films. A collaboration between the members of the amateur film club and the local Chiro group formed the foundation of this moralizing work, a celebration of family values and the ideals of the Catholic youth movement. Based on the adventurous youth novel Het lied van de Donau by Jesuit Father Franz Weiser, the film follows the conflict and eventual reconciliation between two Chiro boys from different social backgrounds. Jeugdstorm was filmed shortly after the war with limited resources. The movie was shot without sound and included intertitles. During screenings, 78-rpm gramophone records were played to enhance the atmosphere of the film
Agadez, a desert city in northern Niger, is weighed down by geopolitical interests and the harsh European border policy. The filmmaker weaves testimonies of three courageous women who each, in their own way, try to confront this reality. They speak about their work, their role in the community, and how they put solidarity into practice. Their inspiring stories offer a glimpse of a feminism that is not theoretical, but rooted in everyday life—a feminism that is truly practiced and lived.
On the road to Galicia, confined in a car, generations face each other, balancing tenderness and tension. My grandmother, widowed and clear-eyed, shares the love stories and journeys that shaped our family. With my boyfriend Raphael, we explore what it means to love, to commit, and the expectations that weigh on our young relationship.
As his partner lives through the chaos of war in Beirut, a young man tends to his cat and empty apartment in Brussels, caught between the safety of distance and the growing unease of conflict he experiences only through messages, videos, and silence.
Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.
Body, Body on the Wall was originally part of the stage performance of the same name, from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus/Jan Fabre.
Jason spends his last day at a juvenile detention center. He's looking forward to being reunited with his mother, who promised him a better life. When Jason is once again left to his own devices, he spirals out of control.
A close-knit group of friends leaves for the military full of ideals and dreams. They leave everything behind: love, family and their carefree youth. But when the reality of war overtakes them, they are confronted with the raw and relentless truth. When the violence takes its toll, they face a struggle that goes beyond the battlefield. The loss of home, the traumas that haunt them, and the question of whether they will ever find themselves again drive them to extremes.
“Ex Utero” navigates between a certain history of gynaecology and contemporary testimonies. Facing us, responding to centuries of practice, women testify to one thing in common: having been confronted one day with gynaecological abuse.
Illustration of the song 'Tout l'amour' performed by Dario Moreno.
In a theater performance full of excitement, adventure and secrets, the Ghost Rockers try to solve a mystery.
A tender moment in a rapeseed desert, a teenager on the bangs secretly in love with his classmate, a one-night lover with a rather unusual fantasy... discover six original and captivating stories with this selection of 100% French-language short films!
The path of two foreign men cross in the kitchen of a pension and in the streets of an impenetrable city. The bond that rises between them reaches a dramatic peak when one arouses in the other a long oppressed memory of a moving experience
This documentary includes an interview with Byars during his stay in Antwerp in 1969 in which the artist reflects on the objectives of some of his performances and the means employed in them. It also includes recordings of various performances like "Two in a Hat", "75 in a Hat", and "The Pink Silk Airplane".
The film follows several children in Goma, Congo, who reflect in their own way what political propaganda sells and what is happening in the higher echelons of power.
Samira, the youngest of five sisters, calls her family together, camera in hand, for a rare meeting: “to help each other without having to go through a shrink or an imam”. Her mother remains silent. It’s not until she arrives in her native village that she reveals her secrets, her regrets and her strength – and that the profound bond and legacy that unite them, between love and rejection, begins to reveal itself.
What happens when a Healing Queen faces the depth of heartbreak?
Can a living person dream of a ghost's dreams and assume ghosts can dream? This VR project reveals a forgotten Indochinese refugee camp in Asia and tells a story about a dream within another. The narrative is based on an unknown Vietnamese refugee camp in Penghu, Taiwan, and includes a dream about an unidentified female victim from the Khmer Rouge period. Phuong, the protagonist, was a 13-year-old Vietnamese refugee born in Cambodia. In those dreams, an unidentified Cambodian girl reveals the story of Phuong's family by asking, "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE"? But what does she mean by "THERE"?
The models who replied to his ad wanted to pose in the intimacy of closed doors, as if this face to face with the photographer whom they knew nothing about was the one thing they had been waiting for.
The film, based on drawings by Ariane Bergrichter, immerses us in colourful, working-class Brussels, dear to the artist’s heart. While her psychological life has been complicated, she claims to have found her energy for life in the city.
A fencer, molded from childhood to chase after success, and devoted to the dream of reaching the top of the world. A father who serves as both her mentor, and her harshest critic. A legendary trainer, in a cutthroat competition. A rollercoaster ride, filled with thrilling ups and downs that even a screenwriter would hesitate to come up with. Touché is the larger-than-life story of fencing world champion Nathalie Moellhausen, a ten-year course featuring the participation in three Olympiads as a representative of two different countries, generous doses of drama on and off the field, and above all else a bright personality transcending the noble sport’s finite popularity by far.
Adèle, aged 12, doesn't want to go back to school. She prefers to skateboard and watch the others from a distance. But this isolation leads her to question the kind of woman she wants to be when she grows up.
Dr. Nagesh gives daily, free, consultations in Mumbai (Bombay). He takes care of HIV positive patients who cannot afford anti-HIV treatments. These men, women and children face the disease as well as their rejection from society. Dr. Nagesh helps them take stock of their financial, emotional and family situation. In the privacy of his office, masks fall, revealing each person's contradictions, lies and deep feelings.
Formed in 1980, POISON IDEA became a household name in the hardcore/punk scenes early in their career, and are known as one of the most notoriously in-your-face acts in the American musical underworld, with an enraged, high-energy live set even more rambunctious than the massive roster of singles, EPs, full-length studio and live releases and more, across a realm of labels including Pusmort, Tim/Kerr, Epitaph, Farewell, TKO, Southern Lord, and their own Fatal Erection. They’ve been an incredibly influential act to major performers including Nirvana, Pantera, Napalm Death, Machine Head, Eyehategod, Emperor, Turbonegro and an endless list of others. In 2019, Poison Idea performed at Leperfest in Belgium, mixing classics and newer material.
25 years after the events, Judith finally dares to come out of her silence and file a complaint for the rape she suffered as a child. She discovers with bitterness that her trial will not take place.
Busy, busy, busy... The standard answer when you ask someone how they are doing. But aren't we doing this to ourselves by wanting to have a career, three hobbies, pursue self-development, and run a family?