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A MON PERE

Sylvia REZSEK

2002 29min Beta digit

The directo’s father, Istvan Rezsek, left Hungary after the October 1956 Revolution to Belgium and to work as a miner. Now she is taking him back to Hungary, will setting where he belongs.

A MON PERE RESISTANT.Marcel Duhen, entre le silence et l\'oubli.

André DARTEVELLE

1996 64 min Beta SP

Part of a trilogy on memories of the Armed Resistance in the Second World War. The portrait of a member of the Partisans Armés, who carried out assassination attempts and killed Nasi collaborators.

ALONE WITH THE WAR

Danielle ARBID

2000 58min Beta digit

The presence of the war, as a ghost or emptiness, in the streets and the houses Beyrouth. Or what’s left of it.

AMIS DU PLAISIR, THIRTY YEARS ON (LES)

Luc de HEUSCH

1995 44 min Beta SP

A portrait of Moulbais thirty years on - a little Walloon village bustling with activity: a local rep company, a brass band, a chorale, a cabaret and majorettes.

ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS

Pierre VAN THIENEN

1987 10 X 13 min 16 mm

A search for traces of the past through the architecture of rural Wallonia.

AUSCHWITZ, UN VOYAGE D'AFFAIRES

Marian HANDWERKER

1991 52 min vidéo

Today in Auschwitz, scavengers still sift through the ashes of gassed Jews in search of gold.

BACK TO THE ROOTS

Nathalie FRITZ

1996 52 min Beta SP

A meeting with two Belgian brothers, musicians who immigrated to the States, discovered the blues and created the group “Mississippi Heat”.

CAMPO SANTO

Sonia Pastecchia

2007 59 min. vidéo

Emigrating means mourning the land that we were born in and which, once behind us, becomes a sacred place in our memory to which we are attached.

CANVASSES IN THE ATTIC

André DARTEVELLE & Roger LA CROIX

2003 59min Beta digit

The painter Roger La Croix (1933-1984) lived and died in bleak, lonely poverty on the margins of society. Is this possible? The film begins an investigation into the life, death and work of this Liège-born artist of exceptional talent and destiny.

COLOUR OF SACRIFICE (THE)

Mourad BOUCIF

2006 82 min. vidéo

" The Colour of the Sacrifice " hands over to these men, for the greater part enlisted by force, who came from the colonized countries and played a crucial role during the Second World war.

DARKO AND VESNA

Emmanuel JESPERS

1997 45 min vidéo

Darkop and Vesna let us gradually glimpse at that overshadowed area one conceals at every armistice : the inner and psychological devastation left by war.

DEPARTURE (THE)

Damien de PIERPONT

1998 52 min Beta digit

After ten years, the director pays a visit to his 'second family', a japanese family. A film about Japan through the so priviledged european eyes, and about the mourning in a far distant culture, as the father just died.

EMBAUME

Marc-Emmanuel MELON

1984 27 min vidéo

A look at the photographic work of Gustave Marrissiaux, a lover of Venice and of the collieries of Liege.

FEMME AU SANG CANNIBALE (la)

Eddy LUYCKX

1985 54 min vidéo

A simple story of four generations, from the filmmaker’s grandfather to his grand son.

FIGURES D'OUBLI

Claude BOUCHE

1988 72 min vidéo

Industrial archaeology on the outskirts of Liege, Belgium (Seraing).

GRANDEUR ET MINIATUREDE LA BOSNIE- HERZEGOVINE

Emmanuel JESPERS

1996 52 min Beta SP

Thirty kilometres from the Dalmation coast, on the island of Brac, live a few hundred refugees from the war in Bosnia.

GUADALUPE SANTA CRUZ

André ROMUS

1993 58 min Beta SP

Lupe, a young woman writer, finds herself in her native Chile after 12 years of dictatorship and exile. For her, everything is a question of how you look at it... how one views one’s past, one’s roots, one’s cultural mix.

INVISIBLE CITY (the)

Philippe de PIERPONT

2001 56min vidéo

The director has asked people to tell him about their place in the city. Palce of love, of loss, of solitude, of learning, and of meeting. Secret places to share.

JUST A LINK

Frédéric DUMONT & Bernard BALTEAU

2003 52 minutes vidéo

"Just a link" is a singular message of humanism and humanity...

KINT, ON THE OTHER SIDE

Olga BAILLIF

2004 77 minutes vidéo

In 1965, a few weeks after the crushing of the popular uprising by the Soviets, my mother left Hungary with her parents to go to Switzerland.

MAC'S. THE LIGHT IS WITHIN

Laurent STINE

2003 52 minutes Beta digit

The Mac's, museum of contemporary, opened on an ancient coal mining ensemble. For the neighbours, it is a revolution : the mine becomes a temple to an art they never heard about. Contemporary art enters their daily life.

MARCOURT OR THE HIDDEN MEMORY

André DARTEVELLE & Françis DUJARDIN

1996 61 min vidéo

On September 9, 1944, ten inhabitants of Marcourt were burned alive by the Germans. Will the memory speak out?

MINA (la)

Loredana BIANCONI

1989 58 min vidéo

A contrasting evocation of the Belgium of the fifties: the collieries, the strikes, the imigrants.

MIZIKE MAMA

Violaine de VILLERS

1992 52 min 16 mm

A portrait of the Belgo-Zairian singer Marie Daulne and her group Zap Mama, spinning a magical cultural and musical mix through their a cappella chants.

MOGADOR'S WIND

Violaine de VILLERS

1999 60min Beta digit

Essaouira-Mogador, on the Morroccan coast, is a memory place. Between the two names of the town, lays the time marked by the Jews departure to the Promised Land during the fifties. An exodus which set an end to the old cohabitation with the muslims.

MOVE AWAY YOUR TENTS, BRING YOUR HEARTS TOGETHER

Monique QUINTART

2003 56min vidéo

This film is a group portrait, Touareg and Belgian, through the caracter of Annor, a young man born between the two cultures.

MY GRAND MOTHER... A HEROINE?

Tatiana de PERLINGHI

2003 48min Beta digit

In 1929 Siou-Ling Tsien left China to study in Belgium During World War II, she succeeded in saving one hundred Belgians sentenced to death by the Nazis, with the help of a German officer. An incident which inspired a TV series in China.

MY LATE MOTHER

Sandrine DRYVERS & Thierry TIRTIAUX

2002 81min Beta digit

Of her mother, the director has only few members on Super 8mm. Of her father, no much, only that he was a Tunisian student in Liège, during the 70’s. Soon mother herself, she decides to move on the puzzle of her conception, and to seek her father in Tunisia..

NINOS

José-Luis PENAFUERTE

2001 55min Beta digit

Today’s testimony of the kids of the Spanish war, exiled in Belgium, Mexico or Russia. Some Pictures bring their memories back, so as their emotions.

ODILE

Reynald HALLOY

2000 35min 16 mm

A pastoral poem, evocating trust, doubt, reality and irreality through the themes of life, death, and love.

ON BORDERS

Danielle ARBID

2002 59min Beta digit

The director spent 4 weeks, 2 days and a few hours circling a country that has two names: Israel and/or Palestine. Her film follows her wanderings. It exposes this face to face with a country as intriguing as it is inaccessible...

ON THE EDGE OF THE WOLRD

Sylvestre SBILLE

2005 52 min. vidéo

Several hundreds meters long, several hundreds meters high, such is St. Kilda. A paradise for seabirds. Hell for men.

PAUWELS' CIRCUS

Agnès BENSIMON

2008 51 mn Beta digit

The life of a Jewish family where everyone is either a clown, a musician or a juggler and has been for six generations already. These days, Marquis, Pepete’s son, is passing on the heritage of the art of the circus as well as Jewish traditions to his son Samuel (16), a juggler himself, who has been chosen to become the next manager of the Pauwels circus.

PETIT CYCLONE AND THE COMET LINE

Michel MEES

1992 56 min Beta SP

A portrait of Andrée De Jonghe, head of a resistance network during World War II.

SALONIKA - CITY OF SILENCE

MAURICE AMARAGGI

2006 52 min. Beta SP

A film about memory, to testify of the disappearance, the obliteration and the oblivion of an exception of humanist equilibrium in Ottoman Empire: Salonika, multi-cultural city.

SILENT AS A FISH

Boris LEHMAN

1987 38 min 16 mm

Through the metaphor of a typically Jewish recipe, Boris Lehman describes the fate of the Jews and the world of the concentration camps.

STORY OF MY LIFE TOLD BY MY PHOTOGRAPHS

Boris LEHMAN

2002 210min 16 mm

Taking photos and making films are ways of touching people. It’s a creative act, a chance to discover oneself while at the same time being part of other people’s passions. My photographs -and my films- seek out contact and they achieve it.

STREETS OF LIEGE, WALKS IN TWO TIMES 1956-1996

Georges YU

1996 58 minutes Beta SP

First walk (1956) : a story simple and ordinary. The chronicle of a city, of its inhabitants and their habits both great and small. The story too of these who,in the past, made it a prestigious international centre on economic, political and cultural levels. By the labour of its workforce, the tricks of its street urchins or by the the ceaseless ballet of the trams in St-Lambert place, Liège lived and breathed. Second walk (1996) : "40 years, later the river has continued its historic and legendary course. The town has given itself a face lift, sometimes delightfull, sometimes offensive"

TAMURT AZIZEN

Regina MOKRANE

1983 40 min 16 mm

Regina Mokrane's father comes from Kabylia and arrived in Belgium in 1922.Fifty years of his life in Belgium : the factory, WW 2, the war in Algeria, the independance, …a wife and two children. 1963 : first return to his country.

TANGO YA BA WENDO

Mirko POPOVITCH & Kwami Mambu ZINGA

1993 52 min 16 mm

“Wendo time”: that’s how they refer to the forties and fifties in Kinshasa, when Wendo, the pioneer of the Zairian rumba, was in his heyday.

TREES

Marc-Antoine ROUDIL & A-S BRUNEAU

2001 50min 35 mm

A lyrical cinematography to nature, which reveals the myth of 18 extraordinary threes.

VOYAGE EN PAYS SECRET

Jean-Claude RIGA

1993 52 min Beta SP

The poetic portrait of women healers in the Belgian Ardennes. Magic and devout practices, prayers passed down through the ages.

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