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A Song For My Land
Can a rural school music teacher change the world?
Ana + Yek (“Me + You”)
Ana + Yek (Me + You) follows twin sisters Sanaa and Zohra. What begins as Zohra’s exploration of their Moroccan heritage gradually reveals the shifting dynamics of their relationship, as Sanaa’s deepening love for Islam becomes more apparent.
Anima
In the port of Rotterdam, seafarers stay on ships in transit for months, only connected to the outside world via their telephone.
Bénédicte
In the film, we see an artist whose body becomes her co-star on stage.
Can’t Feel Nothing
What is the internet doing to us? With curiousity and humour, director David Borenstein travels the world to investigate who is pulling the strings when the internet makes us angry, sad, horny or just plain indifferent.
Canta Angola
For forty years, Angola was plagued by devastating armed conflicts that ended in 2002.
Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp
A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon.
Cyborg Generation
The life of Kai, an eighteen-year-old musician, changes drastically after making the radical decision to implant technology in his body in order to perceive sounds from space.
Dad’s Lullaby
“What kind of love do you have for him?”
Dance Me To The End
When Siméon, a Dominican caregiver in training, brings his Southern flair to a retirement home in Ghent, he is confronted with the limitations of the healthcare system, but at the same time, he wins the hearts of the residents.
Dreams of Djenné
Swedish Sophie has lived a glamorous life in the European fashion world as a model and designer when, in her 50s, she decides to leave everything behind.
Emergence Program – Day 1
59, rue des Bayards, Les âmes fêlées, Oblitérer, Grip, Bruxelles En Gros Plan, Creuser La Mer, Riot GRRRL, la Nouvelle Vague, Crushed, Pornatopia
Emergence Program – Day 2
Leçon d’objet, Do you hear the wind in the pine trees ?, The Wiels Marsh, In Echoing Silence, Frappe à ma porte, Bontle, The Deserters
Emergence Program – Day 3
La Neige aux Pieds, The Art OF PASCALE HECQUET, Entre nos mains, Rides du Lion et Pattes d’Oie, La Flor Del Camino
Emergence Program – Second Screenings #1
Frappe à ma porte – Louise Toussaint, Crushed – Camille Vigny, Bontle – Marie Ruwet
Emergence Program – Second Screenings #2
Brussels Close-Up – Ilja Sirčenko, Three Brothers – Maura De Troyer, Digging The Sea – Robin Dehenain
Emergence Program – Second Screenings #3
Do you hear the wind in the pine trees ? – The Wiels Marsh – La Neige aux Pieds – Obliterate
Emergence Program – Second Screenings #4
April 2 / 17:00
Riot GRRRL, la Nouvelle Vague – Eva Tonelli
Synopsis
Riot Grrrl, La Nouvelle Vague explores the incandescent legacy of Riot Grrrls, from the sonic riots of the 90s to the seething scene in Brussels. From the raging riffs of Lavender Witch to the scathing punchlines of the duo Z&T, the film ...
Evelyne Forever
It’s the end of summer, and Hélène, recently out of a complicated relationship, takes refuge with her cousin Evy, a spirited biker who lost her sight later in life.
Glass, My Unfulfilled Life
A glorious coming-of-old-age docu-comedy!
Googoosh – Made of Fire
Once a pop icon, then 20 years of house arrest, banned from performing – and finally an unexpected comeback.
Green Is The New Red
A genealogy of our present ecological disaster.
HOLLYWOODGATE
Unprecedented and audacious, HOLLYWOODGATE is the riveting result of the year director Ibrahim Nash’at spent with the Taliban in the wake of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Inside Kaboul
After the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, Raha and Marwa, two young Afghan women, record voice notes to tell the story of their daily lives.
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
“Although the term “Johatsu” is widespread in Japan, it is regarded as taboo that nobody wants to talk about.” Arata Mori
KIX
KIX is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi’s journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest…
L’Amazone
L’AMAZONE is an intimate portrait of a mother and daughter in a family where women have been affected by breast cancer for four generations.
Le garçon
It all starts with photos of a family. A family we don’t know, but which we feel we do know. At the center: this boy. Who is he? What is his story?
Le rêve des cigognes
Based on my own experience, which I extend through that of other infertile people, I show how Medically Assisted Reproduction changes our relationship with the body and the imaginary.
Letter to Theo
The filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died on 24 January 2012, hit by a motorbike on the set of his latest film.
Letters to … and back
70 years of love in 437 letters and 30 pictures painted on their envelopes.
Lie to me
‘Lie to Me’ is the story of how tech nerd and blockchain expert Bjørn Bjercke overturned the
OneCoin pyramid scheme – the biggest Crypto fraud in history.
Mister Engel. A Sexonomic Miracle
During Germany’s turbulent reconstruction, Engel revolutionized the sex industry by creating a brothel that challenged societal norms and provided insight into the hitherto hidden world of female sexuality.
Monstres de Poussière
Johnny and Goyko, once homeless, are trying to tell their story in a film.
My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts
Does memory prevent the occurrence of violence?
No One Sleeps
Negar SamakNejad, a 46-year-old university lecturer, intends to become the first Iranian woman to continuously climb Mount Damavand from all four fronts to the peak.
Ocean Souls
Ocean Souls unites over 100 filmmakers and 25 of the world’s top scientists and experts in a truly unprecedented collaboration.
On Melting Snow
Each landscape reflects a memory of our planet, memories that have been cruelly divided by time and man-made political borders.
Phantoms from the Depths
In Martinique, centuries of colonisation and migration have intermingled peoples from the four corners of the globe, making each one the son of all.
Rebels Don’t Know Age
Naçiye Van der Straeten, a 78-year-old Belgian woman, is fighting Parkinson’s disease by boxing in Antalya, Turkey.
Retro Therapy
Manon, a shy 16-year-old girl is forced to live with her insufferable grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist who has Alzheimer’s.
Road To Nowhere
Somewhere in the Great Canadian North, at the edge of the world, there exists a fast-growing city which has the particularity of welcoming people from everywhere.
Scars of a Putsch
“Scars of a Putsch” is the director’s personal quest to discover what is hidden behind the scars on the body of her husband Abidin, a Turkish revolutionary of the 70s.
Sheep
SHEEP witnesses the survival efforts of three shepherds to protect their sheep in an age-old conflict between the wild and the tamed.
Sudan, Remember Us
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words.
The Anchor
“The Anchor” plunges into the abyss of the human mind through a cinematic odyssey, combining archive testimonies and a polar expedition.
The Best Short Films of All Festivals #1
WILDFLOWER by Carina Pierro Corso, LA FENÊTRE by Lucas Ortiz Estefanell, DON BENJAMÍN by Iván Zahínos
The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2
April 3 / 18:00
The Fishing Boats of Kayar by Álvaro Hernández Blanco
Synopsis:
After 15 years in Spain, Thimbo returns to his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by sensations of nostalgia and uprooting. He also grapples with the influence he exerts on the local youth, who see him as a role model ...
The Forbidden Call: Women Priests
From their clandestine ordinations on a boat on the Danube, Catholic women priests are challenging the Vatican to dismantle the sexism that causes so much suffering.
The Friendship Bench
When community loses hope, grandmothers take action.
The Jacket
The Jacket is a portrait of Jamal Hindawi, a Palestinian man who lives in exile with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon
The Man I Left Behind
Larry Towell’s business card reads: ‘Human Being’. For the past 40 years, the celebrated Magnum photographer—one of the greatest war photographers in the world—has chronicled humankind’s deepest struggles.
The New Man
QUIRINO, 77, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village in Cabo Verde, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains.
The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5
66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms
THE UNFIXING
The film presents a richly personal visual diary, capturing the intimate moments of Bentacourt’s personal struggles with a debilitating illness and the rippling effects on her family…
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz, aged 75 and 84, are still very much in love.
When Harmattan Blows
Charismatic and self-assured, Barbara’s strength falters when the harmattan winds blow, stirring up haunting memories of her past.
Yintah
YINTAH means “land” in the original language of the First Nations in Canada.