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Lost Souls of Syria

Lost Souls of Syria

Films

Director: Garance Le Caisne & Stéphane Malterre

Year: 2023

Duration: 99Min

Country: France, Germany

In 2013, a Syrian official flees with 27,000 photos of corpses tortured to death in the country’s prisons since 2011.
Nezouh

Nezouh

Films

Director: Soudade Kaadan

Year: 2022

Duration: 103Min

Country: Syria

An allegorical tale of female emancipation set amidst the Syrian conflict in Damascus, about a family who decides to stay behind in the besieged area.
The Translator

The Translator

Films

Director: Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf

Year: 2020

Duration: 105Min

Country: Syria

This political thriller details the journey of Sami, an Arabic-English translator to find his brother who has been arrested by the Assad regime for participating in a peaceful demonstration.
THE TIBETAN GIRL

THE TIBETAN GIRL

Films Masterclass

Director: Huaqing Jin

Year: 2016

Duration: 30Min

Country: China

The Tibetan Girl reveals through Drolma’s life, her religious devotion, her joy, sadness and purity,
CAMBRIDGE

CAMBRIDGE

Films Masterclass

Director: Eldora Traykova

Year: 2016

Duration: 64Min

Country: Bulgaria

Dolni Tsibar is a village on the banks of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria, the EU’s poorest area.
BLOSSOM WITH TEARS

BLOSSOM WITH TEARS

Films Masterclass

Director: Huaqing Jin

Year: 2012

Duration: 38Min

Country: China

China keeps lives, stories and sufferings invisible. In Blossom With Tears, the director, Huaqing Jin
QUAND L’EAU DEVIENDRA NOIRE

QUAND L’EAU DEVIENDRA NOIRE

Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Liora Berliner, Ophélie Nève

Year: 2022

Duration: 16Min

Country: Belgium

Intag Valley. Julio, 67, is fighting for years against the threat of mining in his village.
AGNIESZKA N'HABITE PLUS ICI

AGNIESZKA N’HABITE PLUS ICI

Belgian Films
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Director: Mateusz François Bielinski

Year: 2022

Duration: 24Min

Country: Belgium

My mother Agnieszka, a Polish housewife, attempts to fill her lonely days in her luxurious mansion in the suburbs of Brussels
ITHAKA - A fight to free Julian Assange

ITHAKA – A fight to free Julian Assange

Films Human Rights International
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Director: Ben Lawrence

Year: 2021

Duration: 106Min

Country: Australia

Assange remains a remand prisoner at U.K.'s maximum security Belmarsh Prison
VERTIGE DES PLAINES

VERTIGE DES PLAINES

Belgian Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Moana Son, Hugo Willocq

Year: 2022

Duration: 24Min

Country: BELGIUM

A priest and an 80-year-old German woman carry on with their lives amidst the ruins of rural northern Czechia – a land violently bereft of its faith and Germanic population in the wake of WW2.
WHERE DO I BELONG?

WHERE DO I BELONG?

Belgian Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Jordie Koko

Year: 2022

Duration: 23Min

Country: BELGIUM

Through exchanges of words and memories, the director and her mother weave the threads and blind spots of their history of separation and sacrifice.
LIKE A BUTTERFLY

LIKE A BUTTERFLY

Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Monelli Salvatore

Year: 2022

Duration: 11Min

Country: Belgium

The intimate portrait of an anarchist.
NOTRE VILLAGE

NOTRE VILLAGE

Belgian Films
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Director: Comes Chahbazian

Year: 2022

Duration: 67Min

Country: Belgium

In the early 90s, in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), civilian volunteers all from the same village choose to take up arms in resistance, to liberate their land.
MON AMIE PÄIVI

MON AMIE PÄIVI

Films Focus Belguim
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Director: Violaine de Villers

Year: 2022

Duration: 52Min

Country: BELGIUM

“My Friend Päivi” is a portrait of the Finnish artist Päivi Pennola.
TRAMADOL

TRAMADOL

Films Focus Belguim
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Director: Morgane Wirtz & Adoum Moussa

Year: 2022

Duration: 31Min

Country: Belgium

A motorcycle speeds through Niger. On board, Moussa, a young Tuareg and
LES PORTEURS

LES PORTEURS

Films Focus Belguim
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Director: Sarah Vanagt

Year: 2022

Duration: 31Min

Country: Belgique

I’m going on a trip and I take with me: an elephant bone to stir food, a feather to catch winged termites, eight butterflies, a rope made of fragrant roots…
LIKANG LITOM-BE

LIKANG LITOM-BE

Films Focus Belguim
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Director: Nicolas Van Kerckhove

Year: 2021

Duration: 71Min

Country: Belgium

Nothing is easy when you return home. After having tried the adventure to Europe,
ROHINGYA

ROHINGYA

Best of the Festival Films Human Rights Masterclass
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Director: Ai Weiwei

Year: 2021

Duration: 122Min

Country: Germany

The Rohingya crossed the border to escape persecution in Myanmar and arrived in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
MARIEKE: ADDICTED TO LIFE

MARIEKE: ADDICTED TO LIFE

Belgian Films
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Director: Pola Rapaport

Year: 2021

Duration: 86Min

Country: USA, Belgium

Funny, charismatic and with an iron will, that is how we know the Paralympic wheelchair athlete Marieke Vervoort, who decides to
LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE

LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE

Belgian Films
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Director: Otilia Babara

Year: 2022

Duration: 72Min

Country: Belgium

In the early 90’s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families.
THE SECRET LIFE OF TITS

THE SECRET LIFE OF TITS

Environment Films
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Director: Yann Sochaczewski, Marlen Hundertmark

Year: 2022

Duration: 43Min

Country: Germany

Among the little tits, it is quite big – the great tit. It is probably the best-known
INTO THE ICE

INTO THE ICE

Environment Films
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Director: Lars Henrik Ostenfeld

Year: 2022

Duration: 82Min

Country: Denmark, Germany

On the frozen borders of Greenland, three daring and committed glaciologists explore the ice core
KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE

KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE

Films Spotlight Canada
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Director: Lars Henrik Ostenfeld

Year: 2022

Duration: 119Min

Country: Canada

In July of 1990, the Oka Crisis was a critical moment in contemporary Canadian history
LE VOYAGE DE GHOSTY ET GRAND-MÈRE SUZY

LE VOYAGE DE GHOSTY ET GRAND-MÈRE SUZY

Belgian Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Joséphine Lasquier, Jérôme Pauly

Year: 2022

Duration: 15Min

Country: Belgique

Ghosty travels to Poland in hopes of finding a lullaby that his grandmother never sang to him.
THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN WORLD BROKE OPEN

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN WORLD BROKE OPEN

Films Spotlight Canada
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Director: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn

Year: 2019

Duration: 105Min

Country: Canada

When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman,
CHRISTMAS AT MOOSE FACTORY

CHRISTMAS AT MOOSE FACTORY

Films Spotlight Canada
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Director: Alanis Obomsawin

Year: 1971

Duration: 13Min

Country: Canada

Released in 1971, this lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin.
NO ADDRESS

NO ADDRESS

Films Spotlight Canada
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Director: Alanis Obomsawin

Year: 1988

Duration: 59Min

Country: Canada

Alanis Obomsawin’s feature-length documentary shines a light on the many Indigenous people
OUT OF BREATH

OUT OF BREATH

Belgian Films
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Director: Olivier Magis, Charlotte Gregoire, Stéphane Bergmans, Pauline Beugnies, Stéphanie Brumat, Benjamin Colaux, Jean-Baptiste Dumont, Coline Grando, Anne Schiltz, Sébastien Wielemans, Juan Sepulchre, Christopher Yates

Year: 2023

Duration: 111Min

Country: Belgique

In 2020, on the first day of lockdown, a group of Belgian filmmakers started a dialogue with local healthcare professionals on Skype.
LA MARELLE

LA MARELLE

Belgian Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Laura De Baudringhien

Year: 2022

Duration: 13Min

Country: BELGIUM

In the documentary “La Marelle”, Laura De Baudringhien proposes an experience during which she brings together her neighbors, who each have small gardens adjacent to hers in her apartment in Anderlecht/Clémenceau.
GIRL GANG

GIRL GANG

Films Young vision
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Director: Susanne Regina Meures

Year: 2022

Duration: 98Min

Country: Switzerland

14-year-old Leonie from eastern Berlin is conquering the world as a teenage influencer.
L'ILLUSION DE L'ABONDANCE

L’ILLUSION DE L’ABONDANCE

Belgian Films
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Director: Erika Gonzalez & Matthieu Lietaert

Year: 2022

Duration: 60Min

Country: BELGIQUE

Bertha, Carolina and Maxima’s stories are of tireless environmental resistance and their conviction to hunt down transnational corporations, wherever they hide.
JOURNAL D’UNE SOLITUDE SEXUELLE

JOURNAL D’UNE SOLITUDE SEXUELLE

Belgian Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Nina Alexandraki

Year: 2022

Duration: 26Min

Country: Belgique

Full of desire, I accumulate sexual encounters with men. But between my desires and the reality of these nights, there is a gap. Thus, I write and film.
LE PACHA, MA MERE ET MOI

LE PACHA, MA MERE ET MOI

Belgian Films
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Director: Nevine Gerits

Year: 2022

Duration: 83Min

Country: BELGIUM

Nevine carries the legacy of a Kurdish mother, an exile and a daily activist for the cause of kurd people.
THE HAPPY WORKER

THE HAPPY WORKER

Films Young vision
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Director: John Webster

Year: 2022

Duration: 79Min

Country: FINLAND, NORWAY

Who wants to work anyway? In an equally funny and gripping documentary, John Webster gets to the bottom of the problems of modern office life.
DILEMMA OF MODERN SEX SIMULATION

DILEMMA OF MODERN SEX SIMULATION

Belgian Films Young Belgian Talents
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Director: Charlotte Bevilacqua

Year: 2022

Duration: 24Min

Country: Belgique

A team of students challenge themselves to film scenes of intimacy.
DARK RED FOREST

DARK RED FOREST

Films Masterclass

Director: Huaqing Jin

Year: 2021

Duration: 85Min

Country: China

Dark Red Forest is an exploration of the mysterious daily life of women devoted to their faith.
DES CORPS ET DES BATAILLES

DES CORPS ET DES BATAILLES

Belgian Films
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Director: Christophe Hermans

Year: 2022

Duration: 72Min

Country: Belgium

In October 2020, while hospitalizations due to the coronavirus are constantly increasing, the second wave is at the doors of the C.H.U. of Liège, the main hospital of Wallonia, in Belgium.
A PORTÉE DU SAUVAGE

A PORTÉE DU SAUVAGE

Environment Films Young vision
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Director: Lucas Hobé

Year: 2021

Duration: 26Min

Country: FRANCE

Today, almost everyone knows how to recognize a polar bear or a Chinese panda, symbols of threatened biodiversity.
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME

WILL YOU LOOK AT ME

Films Young vision
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Director: Shuli Huan

Year: 2022

Duration: 20Min

Country: China

After spending some time in New York, filmmaker Shuli Huang returns to his hometown
PENDANT QUE NICOLETA TRAVAILLE

PENDANT QUE NICOLETA TRAVAILLE

Belgian Films
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Director: Isabelle Detournay

Year: 2022

Duration: 103Min

Country: BELGIUM

In Bucharest, near the North Station, Ilinca, Melinda, Nicoleta and Nella fight every day to survive.
THE CHOCOLATE WAR

THE CHOCOLATE WAR

Films Human Rights Young vision
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Director: Miki Mistrati

Year: 2022

Duration: 58Min

Country: Denmark

A film about a man’s fight against the chocolate giants and a billion-dollar industry
ELEPHANT MOTHER

ELEPHANT MOTHER

Environment Films International
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Director: Jez Lewis, Jocelyn Cammack (co-director)

Year: 2022

Duration: 84Min

Country: UK

A timeless David and Goliath story.
LE JOUR OÙ J’AI DÉCOUVERT QUE JANE FONDA ÉTAIT BRUNE

LE JOUR OÙ J’AI DÉCOUVERT QUE JANE FONDA ÉTAIT BRUNE

Films Human Rights Young vision
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Director: Anna Salzberg

Year: 2022

Duration: 79Min

Country: France

I ask my mother about her past feminist commitment, and why she made a child on her own.
CORRIE

CORRIE

Films Young vision
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Director: Marieke Widlak

Year: 2022

Duration: 24Min

Country: NETHERLANDS

How do you reinvent yourself when your partner is going through a change?
LAZARO AND THE SHARK

LAZARO AND THE SHARK

Festival Human Rights International
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Director: William Sabourin O’Reilly

Year: 2022

Duration: 76Min

Country: CUBA / USA

A feature documentary that brings us to the world of Conga Competitions in the Carnival of Santiago de Cuba
BOBI WINE : THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT

BOBI WINE : THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT

Films Human Rights International
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Director: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo

Year: 2022

Duration: 113Min

Country: UGANDA / UK / USA

This gripping documentary follows the Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine.
BURNING FLOWER

BURNING FLOWER

Films Human Rights International
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Director: Won Ho-Yeon

Year: 2021

Duration: 83Min

Country: South Korea

Lim Seonn-Yeo, 68, has never left a deep mountain village in Samcheok, Gangwon Province.
IF YOU ARE A MAN

IF YOU ARE A MAN

Films Human Rights International
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Director: Simon Panay

Year: 2022

Duration: 75Min

Country: FRANCE

With a mesmerizing cinematography and great empathy, Panay brings us to the world of Opio, a 13 years old boy ready to do what it takes to be able to attend school.
THE HAMLET SYNDROME

THE HAMLET SYNDROME

Films Human Rights International
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Director: Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski

Year: 2022

Duration: 86Min

Country: POLAND, GERMANY

The Hamlet Syndrome depicts the young Ukrainian generation scarred by war and political breakthroughs.
DESTINY

DESTINY

Films Human Rights International
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Director: Yaser Talebi

Year: 2022

Duration: 52Min

Country: IRAN

A teenage girl named Sahar, who recently lost her mother, tries to take care of her father Rahim, a man with special needs.
CHILDREN OF LAS BRISAS

CHILDREN OF LAS BRISAS

Best of the Festival Films Human Rights
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Director: Marianela Maldonado

Year: 2022

Duration: 106Min

Country: VENEZUELA / UK / France

Set in the sprawling suburbs of Valencia, The Children of Las Brisas is a poetic and observational documentary capturing the struggle and transformation of a group of young musicians striving for a better life through classical music.
THE PLACES FROM WHICH WE ARE ABSENT

THE PLACES FROM WHICH WE ARE ABSENT

Belgian Films
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Director: Marta Kucza

Year: 2023

Duration: 67Min

Country: Belgium

I’ve been filming my friend Kante, Guinean by origin and Polish by adoption, a night worker in the suburbs of London with a head full of an Africa that he left many years ago. 
STRANGER AT THE GATE

STRANGER AT THE GATE

Best of the Festival Films Human Rights
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Director: Joshue Seftel

Year: 2022

Duration: 29Min

Country: USA

Returning home from a long career in the U.S. Marine Corps, Richard “Mac” McKinney found himself struggling under the weight of a ferocious rage fueled by
POLARIS

POLARIS

Films International
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Director: Ainara Vera

Year: 2022

Duration: 79Min

Country: FRANCE / GREENLAND

Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in France.
BAD AXE

BAD AXE

Films International
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Director: David Siev

Year: 2022

Duration: 102Min

Country: USA

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant…
ALL THAT BREATHES

ALL THAT BREATHES

Best of World Festivals Environment Films
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Director: Shaunak Sen

Year: 2022

Duration: 94Min

Country: INDIA – UK – USA

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud 
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE

GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE

Environment Films International
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Director: Jacqueline Mills

Year: 2022

Duration: 104Min

Country: CANADA

Immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
FREE MONEY

FREE MONEY

Films Young vision
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Director: Lauren Defilippo & Sam Soko

Year: 2022

Duration: 77Min

Country: Kenya, USA

When universal basic income (UBI) comes to the Kenyan village of Kogutu, lives are forever changed.
WATERS OF PASTAZA

WATERS OF PASTAZA

Environment Films International
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Director: Inês T. Alves

Year: 2022

Duration: 61Min

Country: PORTUGAL

Isolated in the Amazon rainforest lives a community of children in deep intimacy with the nature around.

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