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This work shows the image of a postcard dating from the early 20th century. On a country road two men are standing near a gigantic tree. In the distance we can see a mill and the outline of a village. At first glance there is nothing that seems strange in this pastoral and picturesque tableau. But when you look closer you notice the leaves of the tree softly moving in the wind.
A nostalgic trip that makes us aware of the monotonous industrialization.
On March 29, 1990, Belgium passed its abortion law. At last! On the same day, King Baudouin informed the Prime Minister of his refusal to sign the law, which he considered a serious matter of conscience, preventing it from being published in the Official Journal. What followed was a six-day black hole during which, in the greatest secrecy, the government's key ministers, and they alone, attempted to find a way out of this constitutional crisis.
Chronicle of a family caught in the grip of an epileptic son.
A short film for three pairs of hands and three tables, based on a notable composition by the director.
La Petite École in Brussels welcomes children who have never attended school, who are often from an immigrant background. Marie and Juliette have created a place outside of the classical structures of learning, where children can learn to be or become children again. But the price for this is the constant deconstruction of conventional education, and endless devotion.
One night, when I was a kid, I woke up on a black sand beach. I was on an island and it was daytime. It was a special place. Space and time were determined by mysterious and unfathomable rules - On that island, there was no logic. And anything was possible.
A bizarre figure takes it upon itself to take care of a desolate forest while braving the cold and lonliness of the wildernes
This story is built up with filmed documents in an experimental fashion.
In this documentary, we look at the plans to send manned spaceflights to Mars. Scientists, including astronauts Dirk Frimout and Frank De Winne, make predictions about when humans will land on Mars.
A colonial-era play becomes a framework for examining the backdrop of today’s political landscape.
In a crescendo of visual hints and sonic traces, Objet d’énigme plays with thriller tropes to depict homes as a dense space in which the memory of murder can be surmised in every frame. Using lo-fi scans of domestic spaces, Objet d’enigme lies bare a pattern in which the female body is the ever-returning protagonist.
A chunk of tantalum - commonly known as coltan, mined in eastern Congo - travels in military materials to a Ghanaian dumpsite, and finally to space. Along the way we discover the connections to mythology, children, technology and colonisation in a critical reflection on political and economic systems.
Do we control technology and language, or do they have their own will, like entities residing on another plane of existence? There’s no easy answer to these questions, but this animated short definitely evokes a sense of meaning.
Short film by Michiel Blanchart. Premise unknown.
It's the middle of the summer. Frank is spending the night out with his friends, as usual. But this time, by morning, things are not quite the same anymore
A tragicomic story of how a fight between two market vendors turned into a global sensation.
Jan Jaap van der Wal has been living in Antwerp for years. He has a soft spot for the flat lands of Flanders. His flat land. He feels at home there and does his work there. In the theater and on TV. But when he stands on top of the cathedral, and the weather is clear, he can see the Netherlands in the distance. Also a flat land. Also his. A country that keeps calling to him. And so, Jan Jaap returns to the Dutch theaters. With the perspective of an outsider. Who sees things just a bit differently.
On their very last evening, three souls wander the streets of Brussels. In the blue twilight, they search for a silent farewell. Meanwhile, the waves of the ocean express what they themselves do not get to say.
When Daniel Demoustier began making a film about Jean-Marie Aerts' career on the occasion of his 70th birthday, nobody could have possibly foreseen that Jean-Marie would fall seriously ill that same year. Yet Jean-Marie continued to make music and Daniel continued to follow Jean-Marie until he left us on April 20, 2024. The film offers a unique overview of the life of perhaps the greatest guitarist and producer in Belgian music history.
Six years after the closure, the workers of a glass factory walk the grounds where they once worked. Little by little, their memories awaken, they rediscover the gestures of the past, their recollections, until they relive the day when everything stopped.
Wounded in combat, 10-year-old Atum is sent to Switzerland for treatment. But the young kadogo (child soldier) has only one obsession: to escape as quickly as possible to rejoin his brothers, who have remained in Congo! Together with Flore, a 10-year-old girl suffering from leukemia, he decides to flee the hospital...
Since the release of a film of great success in which Valentine plays the lead role, she hasn't been working. It's during this period of low spirits that she has to audition for a big French film, in a duet with a dog, even though she doesn't really like dogs. Driven by her depression and existential angst as an actress, she sets off on an absurd canine quest around Brussels.
In Chile, glaciers are melting, forests are burning, inequalities are growing, social revolt is roaring... Between reason and desire, Camila's thoughts waver: can she give birth to a child in this burning world?
As Charly, a young trans man, is laid to rest under his birth name, Tom, Louise and BB, his queer pals, decide to pay their last respects in his own image in the place where they used to meet: Charly’s childhood home. But Victor, his brother, and his wife Iris turn up unexpectedly…
The love between Jan Jaap van der Wal and his second home country Belgium has not cooled off. In fact, it has grown even deeper. So the comedian created a second show especially for Flanders. In Schoon, the Dutchman delves deeper into everything that is beautiful about Flanders. And beware: beauty can also be found in ugly things. The frayed edges, sharp corners, and worn spots. They are all beautiful. It's just how you look at it. With jokes that turn absurdity into logic and logic into absurdity, it promises to be a beautiful evening.
A short documentary on the creation of the fresco by Alba Fabre Sacristán paying homage to Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Made by Akerman's childhood friend and longtime collaborator Marilyn Watelet and also co-writer and assistant director on the iconic film.
On this dark and rainy morning, the puppet people trudge off to work. From day to day the routine never changes, their gazes never meet. Are they aware that their every movement, is being fully controlled and meticulously observed? It is time for change, but just a spark and their eyes will unclose...
Emma, the wife of a highly respected mayor, endures violence and takes refuge in a shelter. There she meets Lola, Lucie and Marie, all victims of violence from different backgrounds.
Husband and wife Paul and Rachel are going through a difficult time. A year after the loss of their daughter, Paul still hasn't been able to come to terms with it and is acting distant. Every time Rachel tries to get closer, he flees to his office, where he is working on his latest book. When Paul is away one day, Rachel decides to investigate. Her worst fears come true as she begins to doubt her own sanity more and more.
Werner Herzog has fallen in love with me.
The time of a dance is about the day-to-day life of a young, Benin fisherman who is in the transition period between grieving the death of a loved one and accepting it.
Two Syrian refugees from two different generations. Hassan, a 55-year-old heading for England in pursuit of a new life. The incident gathered him with the second character, (Rakan) 30 years old, a young Syrian activist in the Syrian revolution . During the night they spend in a Warehouse in the port of Calais - France. The relationship between the two shows Rhakan's reservation towards Hassan, who seems absurd and speaks a lot while Rakan briefly answers Hassan's questions. Hassan appears to be sick and have a fever. In a dramatic moment and as the fever mounts over Hassan, Rakan announces that he knows Hassan and his true identity. A confrontation between the two leads to the absurdity. We see another face for these characters that makes violence a hallmark of the night. The next morning the sunbeam carries the truth that reveals the hidden story and puts everyone in front of his destiny to face what he has done.
Elena, a Polish teenage girl living in Belgium, has to go with her parents to the family planning center, so that she can translate for them. But what she thought to be a simple formality soon confronts her to the harsh side of adulthood.
While studying in Bruxelles, Daryna Mamaisur is caught up in the conflict tearing through her country. She questions the way in which to speak about it, at a distance, while cinema seems the “least appropriate” means.
A musical documentary following 12 Congolese musicians on their tour through Europe and Kinshasa with a show in which they created a symbiosis between baroque and African music.
Spin and Ella is an animated short about superfairy Ella and her best friend Spider, who make spider thread drawings together in Branchtown.
A first-person documentary about the Canary Islands. Belgian filmmaker Isabelle Dierckx encounters local people and customs while investigating a copy of Luis Buñuel's film L’Âge d’or, which was buried in the volcanic soil by the Surrealists to protect it from destruction by Franco's regime.
In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, Saor, a young androgynous Indian, carries a coffin. He is taking Valentina, his lover, back to her native village to bury her. When Valentina left this village years ago, before becoming a transgender singer in a faraway city, people here knew her as Pol. Valentina's past and death remain an enigma. Yet bit by bit, through his encounters with the people of the village, Saor begins to perceive what connected them to Pol. Sensitive to the world around him, Saor, like a Shaman, enters their memories. Saor starts to understand that, like all homosexuals persecuted by Shining Path terrorists, Pol lived in terror. In the village cemetery, between rage and bitterness, Saor attends the burial of Valentina's body. A ceremony that is both a burial and an exhumation.
I am Chance follows the microcosm of a group of street savvy girls in the surprisingly bright, pop and artistic megacity of Kinshasa. Astute, sassy and resilient, Chancelvie and her friends take on the world, fighting and nurturing, stealing and sharing, turning tricks and making art. Vibrant and exuberant, Kinshasa itself becomes a character in the film, combining its voice with that of the girls.
As of 1990, many African women fleeing their homes because of the war and political instability in their countries settled down in Belgium. 20 years later, They are haunted by their past. How to express these anxieties that gnaw at them? How to say the unspeakable? What if women other than these refugees started to open the doors of the past?
How far are we willing to go to satisfy our desires, save face, or defend our territory? Camping Sauvage is a dance theater performance aimed at young audiences that tackles the issues of coexistence and cultural diversity in a lighthearted manner, without shying away from the subject's complexities.
This film deals with the fate of children during the Second World War. The Nazis divided children into two categories: “the good ones,” the Aryan children, and “the bad ones,” the others. In the name of ultranationalism, Nazism, the theory of the Übermensch, and racism, Aryan children were mentally indoctrinated, while the others were imprisoned in camps and physically destroyed. These “others” were mainly children from non-Aryan and supposedly impure races: Jews, Poles, Russians, Yugoslavs, and Roma. For this film, Lydia Chagoll conducted research in World War II documentation centers, museums, and concentration camp archives in several countries, collecting texts, documents, and photographs. The film consists of a montage of photos and footage filmed by the Nazis themselves, accompanied by voice-over commentary based entirely on quotations from Nazi publications, laws, decrees, directives, newspapers, schoolbooks, reports, and political texts.
It's time for a little dance of joy! Because, yes, Fonske Verzele is once again experiencing hilarious family adventures and Kevin Vermeulen has yet another new friend. But at the same time, everything is new in 'Veel vijven en zessen' (Lots of fives and sixes), the jokes and also numerous characters. Gili de la Tirette misleads everyone, and Dimitri Keerbergen experiences a climax at something that closely resembles Tomorrowland. Excuse me? Tomorrowland!? Yes, indeed, the icon of Flemish comedy is like a boisterous star on the dance floor. He dances. And dances! And dances! And the audience... spontaneously starts a conga line. A conga line at Tomorrowland? Only Jacques Vermeire can pull that off! With a smile. With a roar of laughter. With a thunderous laugh. A comedian at the peak of his powers.
The story of the shooting of F.W. Murnau's last film, Taboo, and the curse that followed for the German filmmaker.
Dishonest smugglers hide their stuff in old Mazier's cafe.
Based on the short story by Laura Hird
When the three artists Sardini, Herringo, and Rolmopski can no longer afford their rent, they decide to sell their 'art' on the street. After a series of funny 'slapstick' events, they manage to scrape the necessary money together and are able to head to bed, exhausted but satisfied.
On a quiet summer day in a small village surrounded by fields, young Aldo looks for a way out of his boredom. He leaves his home and immerses himself in his fantasy world, where nature and animals inspire him to a series of imaginative adventures.
It's a journal from my political, social, historical, and psychological life.
Mao, a middle-aged Chinese man, grudgingly manages his struggling little shop. His life takes an unexpected turn when he stumbles upon a commercial advertising a retreat where men can unleash their inner caveman to find their true voice.
In 1430, Philip the Good founded the Order of the Golden Fleece, a prestigious order of knighthood, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal and to boost his political power. Filmmakers Buyse and De Craeke built a story around this history, shooting parts of it in Bruges and around Tillegem Castle. They also managed to capture footage of the unique Golden Fleece procession, which marched through Bruges on July 13 and August 17, 1930, to mark the centenary of Belgian independence.