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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”.

CASUAL LIVES

Roger BEECKMANS

2000 53min vidéo

A Recife, North East of Brasil, the situation of street kids reaches an undearable degree of precerity. Confronted with brutality and alcoolism when being home, they flee to a worst violence: the “Death Squaddron’s” one.

CAT\'S CUT (THE)

Jeremy HAMERS

2006 52 min. vidéo

Carmo do Rio Verde, in Brasil, is a village which exists thanks to sugar cane exploitation...

CHILDREN OF HE LIGHT

Jean-Noel LANSIVAL

2002 29min Beta digit

Using a traditionnal recepee of his moher, Jean-Luc makes and sells maitrank, an wine made of several plants. With the money, and also the rock festivals’s he sets up, he is currently building scholls in Brasil, buys the books and pays the teachers wages.

EASTER MAN (THE)

Thomas LAVACHERY

2002 59min Beta digit

1934, the year in which Leopold III comes to the throne in Belgium; Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice. 1934 is also the year in which a Belgo-French expedition sets sail to uncover the mysteries of Easter Island.

FROM THE GRASS ROOTS

Thierry MICHEL

1990 62 min 16 mm

It’s carnival time in Rio De Janeiro. In the favelas live Mario the preacher, Eunice the prostitute, Israël the Samba teacher,...

GREYHOUND

Jennifer LEVY-LUNT

1999 52min Beta digit

Moving portrait of passengers of a greyhound bus, somewhere in the United-States. Hard luck, or circumstances forced them to embark the bus, with the hope of a better life. American dream on the road.

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.

LANDS OF CONFUSION

Paola STEVENNE

2002 60min Beta digit

"Lands of confusion" is about a journey through Europe, starting in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the coast of Morocco, and ending in Berlin. From one face to the next, the film takes us from the South to the North.

OSCAR NIEMEYER AN ARCHITECT COMMITED TO HIS CENTURY

Marc-Henri WAJNBERG

2000 60min Beta digit

An artist who continues to believe in the social idea. A man who loves women. A demanding character who always fought for hid ideals. So is the 92 years old wordly reknowned architect of Brasilia, as he receives us and recount his magnificent life.

PACHAMAMA

Pierre DE LATTRE

1996 58 min Beta SP

Bruno and Thomas are just 6 months old and have just been abandonned on a rubbish dump...19 years later, they decide to look for the people who saved their lives and they find them.

RETOUR EN PATAGONIE

Nacho CARRANZA

1996 52 min Beta SP

Situaded at the very end of South America, Patagona is considered as a desolate and deserted region. The director makes us discover various personnalities.

SEM TERRA

Jean TIMMERMAN

1997 52 min Beta SP

In the Brazilian Amazon, the agrarian issue is more than ever a topical subject. The pressure by the landless peasants increases and opposes them to the landowners of the latifundin and the police force.

STREET KIDS

Thierry MICHEL

1990 48 min vidéo

Two Carioca teenagers on their own: the begging, the stealing, the drugs; but also the friendship, the carnival and above all, a love of life.

TRANSATLANTIQUE

Rob ROMBOUT

1993 58 min 35 mm

A portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II, the last of the great ocean liners, linking Europe to America.

VICTOR

Cécile Verstraeten & Alice Verstraeten

2009 49' DV Cam

In Argentina, between 1976 and 1983, the military dictatorship was responsible for the ‘disappearance’ of 30,000 people. Victor Basterra is one of the few who survived the régime’s biggest secret concentration camp, the ESMA. After surviving six months of torture, he agreed to produce false identity papers for his torturers. This included taking passport photos of them. During the subsequent three years of his imprisonment he managed to hide some of the photos. Since the re-establishment of democracy, these photos have become vital evidence for the prosecution of the military and their accomplices. Victor has become a key witness. In this film he retells his period of imprisonment and resistance. His memories constitute a living archive.

WHY DO HUMANS BURN ?

César Diaz

2010 50min Beta digit

On January 31 1980, in Guatemala, while the civil war between the military dictatorship and the Marxist guerrillas drags on, 32 representatives of Indian peasant associations arrive from each corner of the country and occupy pacifically the Spain embassy to claim their rights. None of them come out of it alive. All are burned live by the military junta in power. Only the ambassador survives. In memory of that massacre, today, Why do humans burn? Takes a critical look at the present.

Manuel POUTTE

2008 90/52 mn Beta digit

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