Millenium Festival March 28 – April 6 2025

Program

24 Mar

Emergence Program – Day 1

CC Bruegel 24 Mar / 17:00 Tickets
59, rue des Bayards, Les âmes fêlées, Oblitérer, Grip, Bruxelles En Gros Plan, Creuser La Mer, Riot GRRRL, la Nouvelle Vague, Crushed, Pornatopia

25 Mar

Emergence Program – Day 2

CC Bruegel 25 Mar / 17:00 Tickets
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

26 Mar

Emergence Program – Day 3

CC Bruegel 26 Mar / 17:00 Tickets
La Neige aux Pieds, The Art OF PASCALE HECQUET, Entre nos mains, Rides du Lion et Pattes d’Oie, La Flor Del Camino 

28 Mar

A Song For My Land

Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta /2024 /95 Min /Argentina, Germany, Colombia
Flagey 28 Mar / 19:30 Tickets
Can a rural school music teacher change the world?

29 Mar

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #2

Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 14:00 Tickets
Brussels Close-Up – Ilja Sirčenko, Three Brothers – Maura De Troyer, Digging The Sea – Robin Dehenain

29 Mar

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #1

Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 14:20 Tickets
Frappe à ma porte – Louise Toussaint, Crushed – Camille Vigny, Bontle – Marie Ruwet

29 Mar

Ana + Yek (“Me + You”)

Romy Mana & Zohra Benhammou /2024 /85 Min /Belgium
Civa 29 Mar / 15:00 Tickets
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.

29 Mar

L’Amazone

Emilie Maréchal & Camille Meynard /2024 /72 Min /Belgium, France
Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 16:00 Tickets
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.

29 Mar

The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5

Elisa Jadot /2024 /80 Min /France
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 16:20 Tickets
66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms

29 Mar

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #1

Civa 29 Mar / 17:00 Tickets

WILDFLOWER by Carina Pierro Corso, LA FENÊTRE by Lucas Ortiz Estefanell, DON BENJAMÍN by Iván Zahínos

29 Mar

The Friendship Bench

Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt /2024 /76 Min /United States
Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 18:15 Tickets
When community loses hope, grandmothers take action.

29 Mar

Canta Angola

Ariel de Bigault /2020 /59 Min /France, Portugal, Angola
Civa 29 Mar / 18:30 Tickets
For forty years, Angola was plagued by devastating armed conflicts that ended in 2002.

29 Mar

On Melting Snow

Mojtaba Bahadori /2024 /73 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 18:30 Tickets
Each landscape reflects a memory of our planet, memories that have been cruelly divided by time and man-made political borders.

29 Mar

KIX

Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész /2024 /92 Min /Hungary, France, Croatia
Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 20:15 Tickets
KIX is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi’s journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest…

29 Mar

Le garçon

Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 20:30 Tickets
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?

29 Mar

Letters to … and back

Hristo Dimitrov-Hindo /2024 /60 Min /Bulgaria
Civa 29 Mar / 20:30 Tickets
70 years of love in 437 letters and 30 pictures painted on their envelopes.

30 Mar

Letter to Theo

Elodie Lélu /2018 /63 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 13:45 Tickets
The filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died on 24 January 2012, hit by a motorbike on the set of his latest film.

30 Mar

Phantoms from the Depths

Annick Ghijzelings /2024 /110 Min /Belgium, France, Martinique
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 14:00 Tickets
In Martinique, centuries of colonisation and migration have intermingled peoples from the four corners of the globe, making each one the son of all.

30 Mar

Le rêve des cigognes

Elodie Lélu /2024 /60 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 15:45 Tickets
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.

30 Mar

Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp

Carmen Chaplin /2024 /90 Min /UK, France, Spain, Netherlands
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 16:45 Tickets
A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon.

30 Mar

Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp

Carmen Chaplin /2024 /90 Min /UK, France, Spain, Netherlands
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 16:45 Tickets
A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon.

30 Mar

Evelyne Forever

Hélène Bares /2024 /67 Min /France
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 17:20 Tickets
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.

30 Mar

Anima

Josefien van Kooten & Anna Witte /2024 /27 Min /The Netherlands
Civa 30 Mar / 18:00 Tickets
In the port of Rotterdam, seafarers stay on ships in transit for months, only connected to the outside world via their telephone.

30 Mar

Mister Engel. A Sexonomic Miracle

Peter Woditsch & Sophie Simon /2024 /65 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 19:15 Tickets
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.

30 Mar

Can’t Feel Nothing

David Borenstein /2024 /81 Min /Denmark
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 19:20 Tickets
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.

30 Mar

Glass, My Unfulfilled Life

Rogier Kappers /2023 /94 Min /Netherlands
Civa 30 Mar / 19:30 Tickets
A glorious coming-of-old-age docu-comedy!

31 Mar

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #3

Civa 31 Mar / 17:30 Tickets
Do you hear the wind in the pine trees ? – The Wiels Marsh – La Neige aux Pieds – Obliterate

31 Mar

The Forbidden Call: Women Priests

Marie Mandy /2024 /79 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 31 Mar / 19:00 Tickets
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.

31 Mar

Monstres de Poussière

Nina Marissiaux /2024 /75 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 31 Mar / 19:15 Tickets
Johnny and Goyko, once homeless, are trying to tell their story in a film.

31 Mar

No One Sleeps

Sam Kalantari /2024 /80 Min /Iran
Civa 31 Mar / 20:00 Tickets
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.

01 Apr

The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5

Elisa Jadot /2024 /80 Min /France
Civa 01 Apr / 18:00 Tickets
66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms

01 Apr

The Anchor

Jen Debauche /2024 /61 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 19:00 Tickets
“The Anchor” plunges into the abyss of the human mind through a cinematic odyssey, combining archive testimonies and a polar expedition.

01 Apr

Johatsu – Into Thin Air

Andreas Hartmann & Arata Mori /2024 /86 Min /Germany, Japan
Vendôme 4 01 Apr / 19:10 Tickets
“Although the term “Johatsu” is widespread in Japan, it is regarded as taboo that nobody wants to talk about.” Arata Mori

01 Apr

The Jacket

Mathijs Poppe /2024 /71 Min /Belgium, Netherlands, France, Lebanon
01 Apr / 19:30
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

01 Apr

Yintah

Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano /2024 /110 Min /Canada
Civa 01 Apr / 20:00 Tickets
YINTAH means “land” in the original language of the First Nations in Canada.

01 Apr

Retro Therapy

Elodie Lélu /2024 /87 Min /Belgium, Canada, France
Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 20:45 Tickets
Manon, a shy 16-year-old girl is forced to live with her insufferable grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist who has Alzheimer’s.

02 Apr

Sheep

Ruud De Keyser /2024 /48 Min /Belgium
Civa 02 Apr / 18:30 Tickets
SHEEP witnesses the survival efforts of three shepherds to protect their sheep in an age-old conflict between the wild and the tamed.

02 Apr

My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts

Anas Zawahri /2024 /74 Min /Syria
Vendôme 4 02 Apr / 18:45 Tickets
Does memory prevent the occurrence of violence?

02 Apr

Rebels Don’t Know Age

Gabriel Courty-Villanua /2024 /53 Min /Belgium, France
Vendôme 2 02 Apr / 19:00 Tickets
Naçiye Van der Straeten, a 78-year-old Belgian woman, is fighting Parkinson’s disease by boxing in Antalya, Turkey.

02 Apr

THE UNFIXING

Nicole Betancourt /2024 /86 Min /USA, ESP
Vendôme 2 02 Apr / 20:40 Tickets
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…

02 Apr

The Man I Left Behind

Larry Towell, Matthieu Rytz, Hubert Hayaud /2024 /83 Min /Canada
Vendôme 4 02 Apr / 20:50 Tickets
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.

03 Apr

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2

Civa 03 Apr / 18:00 Tickets
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… Read more »

03 Apr

When Harmattan Blows

Edyta Wroblewska /2024 /80 Min /Poland
Vendôme 4 03 Apr / 19:00 Tickets
Charismatic and self-assured, Barbara’s strength falters when the harmattan winds blow, stirring up haunting memories of her past.

03 Apr

Inside Kaboul

Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France
Vendôme 2 03 Apr / 19:15 Tickets
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.

03 Apr

Green Is The New Red

Anna Recalde Miranda /2024 /105 Min /France, Italy, Paraguay, Sweden
Civa 03 Apr / 20:00 Tickets
A genealogy of our present ecological disaster.

03 Apr

Dad’s Lullaby

Lesia Diak /2024 /78 Min /Ukraine, Romania, Croatia
Vendôme 2 03 Apr / 20:30 Tickets
“What kind of love do you have for him?”

03 Apr

Bénédicte

Violaine de Villers & Graham Riach /2024 /44 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 03 Apr / 21:15 Tickets
In the film, we see an artist whose body becomes her co-star on stage.

04 Apr

Inside Kaboul

Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France
Civa 04 Apr / 18:00 Tickets
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.

04 Apr

Road To Nowhere

Caroline D'hondt /2024 /82 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 04 Apr / 19:00 Tickets
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.

04 Apr

Dance Me To The End

Camille Ghekiere /2024 /61 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 04 Apr / 19:10 Tickets
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.

04 Apr

Cyborg Generation

Miguel Morillo Vega /2024 /63 Min /Spain
Civa 04 Apr / 19:30 Tickets
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.

04 Apr

Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other

Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet /2024 /100 Min /United Kingdom, United States of America, Denmark
Vendôme 4 04 Apr / 21:00 Tickets
Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz, aged 75 and 84, are still very much in love.

04 Apr

HOLLYWOODGATE

Ibrahim Nash’at /2023 /91 Min /Germany, USA
Vendôme 2 04 Apr / 21:15 Tickets
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.

05 Apr

The New Man

Carlos Yuri Ceuninck /2023 /64 Min /Belgium, Cabo Verde
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 14:00 Tickets
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.

05 Apr

Ocean Souls

Philip Hamilton /2020 /58 Min /United Kingdom
Civa 05 Apr / 16:00 Tickets
Ocean Souls unites over 100 filmmakers and 25 of the world’s top scientists and experts in a truly unprecedented collaboration.

05 Apr

Scars of a Putsch

Nathalie Borgers /2024 /100 Min /Belgium, Austria
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 16:10 Tickets
“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.

05 Apr

Dreams of Djenné

Elisabet Gustafsson /2024 /82 Min /Sweden
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 18:45 Tickets
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.

05 Apr

Sudan, Remember Us

Hind Meddeb /2024 /76 Min /France, Tunisia, Qatar
Civa 05 Apr / 19:00 Tickets
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words.

05 Apr

Lie to me

Bår Tyrmi /2024 /94 Min /Norway
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 21:00 Tickets
‘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.

06 Apr

Googoosh – Made of Fire

Niloufar Taghizadeh /2024 /94 Min /USA, Germany
Flagey 06 Apr / 18:00 Tickets
Once a pop icon, then 20 years of house arrest, banned from performing – and finally an unexpected comeback.

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