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59, rue des Bayards
At 59, Rue des Bayards, a social housing building is home to a whole lot of stories.
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.
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.
Bontle
Bontle tells the story of Marie, a young woman marked by her time in Soweto, where the beauty of adventure collapses in the face of trauma.
Brussels Close -Up
“Brussels Close-Up” follows a street photographer in Brussels who uses unexpected flash photography to capture the essence of strangers in public spaces.
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.
Crushed
Summer is the season of stock car racing. The cars prepare for a long day of races that will end in their total demolition.
Cyborg Generation
An eighteen-year-old musician decides to design a cybernetic organ and illegally implant it into his own body, thus acquiring a new sense that allows him to perceive on Earth sounds coming from outer space.
Dad’s Lullaby
“What kind of love do you have for him?”
Digging the Sea
On an intimate journey, Lara meets up with her sister Marie, a young woman with Down’s syndrome who is slowly regaining her ability to speak after 3 years of silence
Do you hear the wind in the pine trees?
A young Belgian woman returns to Japan to gain insight and find peace in her past relationship with her Japanese ex-lover.
Don Benjamín
For him, the jungle has always been God, life, food, health, beauty and tradition.
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.
Drie Broers
Three retired West-Flemish brothers are each other’s best friends.
Emergence Program – Day 1
17:00
59, rue des Bayards – Margot Therer
Synopsis
At 59, Rue des Bayards, a social housing building is home to a whole lot of stories. Like a guided tour through daily life, the film reveals snippets of lives and the links that the residents forge with each other. Built on the principles of sisterhood ...
Emergence Program – Day 2
17h00
Leçon d’objet – Herman Asselberghs with his students at St Lucas Synopsis Leçon d’objet talks about the camera used to make the film. Its title refers to the proven teaching method of presenting an everyday object by naming its characteristics and properties. The close observation of a physical object can then lead to a better understanding of abstract ...
Emergence Program – Day 3
17h00
La Neige aux Pieds – Soleysa Taleb et Elsa Audevart
Synopsis
This is the story of a journey on the rails through the Polish landscapes where we meet Ayoub, a Moroccan musician and his friends. As they explore themes of rhythm, identity and belonging, the film speaks of music creating bonds, even far from ...
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 ? – Axelle Lenaerts
Synopsis
A young Belgian woman returns to Japan to gain insight and find peace in her past relationship with her Japanese ex-lover. She travels around Japan, observing nature as the seasons change. She is guided by the richness of the Japanese ...
Emergence Program – Second Screenings #4
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 captures the raw ...
Entre nos mains
Every week, I meet up with my grandmother to knit.
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.
Frappe à ma porte
Clarisse and Louise are two very close sisters. From one day to the next, Clarisse becomes estranged and sinks into silence and depression, the causes of which remain mysterious…
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.
Grip
With a diverse group of teenage girls, Ukrainian-born Emilia takes part in a climbing camp for the first time in her new home country.
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.
In Echoing Silence
In a gripping tale of exile and longing, Dominique starts building a new home in Ostende, but it’s going to take more than an apartment.
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.
L’école primaire
Jeannine went to the very first mixed school in Liège. The boys stayed on one side of the classroom, the girls on the other.
La Fenêtre
A visually immersive documentary exploring our perception of truth through the impact of AI on art and cinema.
La neige aux pieds
This is the story of a journey on the rails through the Polish landscapes where we meet Ayoub, a Moroccan musician and his friends.
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.
Leçon d’objet – Partage d’expérience, création collective
Leçon d’objet talks about the camera used to make the film. Its title refers to the proven teaching method of presenting an everyday object by naming its characteristics and properties.
Les âmes fêlées
This film is a slow immersion into the daily lives of those left behind, suffering from post-traumatic stress.
Les dames blanches
Geconfronteerd met de beperkingen van ons zorgsysteem, begint Simeon vraagtekens te plaatsen bij de rigide benadering van ouderenzorg die van hem verwacht wordt.
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
Tijdens de turbulente wederopbouw van Duitsland veroorzaakte hij een omwenteling in de seksindustrie: hij richtte een bordeel op dat maatschappelijke normen uitdaagde en inzicht verschafte in de tot dan toe verborgen wereld van vrouwelijke seksualiteit.
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, Negar intends to become the first Iranian woman to continuously climb Mount Damavand from all four fronts to the peak.
Object 817
Een poëtische reis naar het hart van de Oeral waar de ontdekking van een buitenaards wezen een halsstarrig bewaard geheim aan het licht brengt.
Obliterate
Tunnels rushing by. Platforms. Subway trains crossing paths.
Ocean Souls
Explore the remarkable lives of whales and dolphins.
On Melting Snow
Each landscape reflects a memory of our planet, memories that have been cruelly divided by time and man-made political borders.
Papa
Eckart was born in West Germany in 1941. The very first memory he has of his father is the sound of soldiers’ boots on the stairs as he waited impatiently for his return.
Perfectly A Strangeness
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.
Perpetual motion
If there’s an antidote to the fear of ageing, it’s called Geneviève.
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.
Pornatopia
Somewhere on Earth. In a dark studio, an elsewhere without a place, a voice guides us to Pornatopia.
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
Ride du lion et pattes d’oie
At nearly thirty, it's time for me to talk with women of other generations and tear down some anti-aging advertisements.
Riot GRRRL, la Nouvelle Vague
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.
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.
Schaap
SCHAAP observeert de overlevingsstrijd van drie herders die voor hun schapen vechten in een eeuwenoud conflict tussen wilde en tamme natuur.
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 van Carina Pierro Corso, LA FENÊTRE van Lucas Ortiz Estefanell, DON BENJAMÍN van Iván Zahínos
The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2
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 and seek to ...
The Deserters
The story of three individualities in transit through a city perpetually being constructed and deconstructed.
The Fishing Boats of Kayar
After 15 years in Spain, Thimbo returns to his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by sensations of nostalgia and uprooting.
the Flower by the Road
A few dreamlike glimpses into the life of a young girl who is on her way to meet a beloved friend, and for whom nothing exists but the here and now.
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 een portret van Jamal Hindawi, een Palestijnse man die met zijn familie in ballingschap leeft in het vluchtelingenkamp van Shatila in Beiroet, Libanon.
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
The Wiels Marsh
The Wiels Marsh, located in Brussels, hosts a body of water that is crucial for numerous species of birds, amphibians, and insects, as well as adapted vegetation that has allowed local biodiversity to thrive.
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.
Une maison à partager
After the departure of his children and the death of his wife, René-Claude lives alone in his large house. One day, he decides it’s time to share it.
When Harmattan Blows
Charismatic and self-assured, Barbara’s strength falters when the harmattan winds blow, stirring up haunting memories of her past.
Wildflower
A poetic essay on the undesirable, the lack of control and the duality.
Yintah
YINTAH means “land” in the original language of the First Nations in Canada.