Movie catalog

Ô COULEURS

Violaine de VILLERS

1998 30 min Beta SP

The painter is my father. I'm listening to him. Then he says, reality is made of movements, germinations, and hectic moves.

Nadia CURTO

1989 11 min vidéo

A young designer in her workshop is working out designes, colour for prints, the structure of the weft. A young operative is bustling round the weaving looms in a factory. Two different types of work, one craft based, the other in manufacturing.

Fabienne ARDUS

1989 11 min vidéo

It's 3 o'clock, Brussels Stock Exchange Time. Beyond the expected sights, the familiar gestures, the waiting... the frame narrows.

Anne DUCOBU

1989 11 min vidéo

The people are there. They are waiting for a stamp, a paper to be rubber stamped, a signature, a form. They settle in for the morning to obtain it; some are quiet, some bored, some irritated. T

Anne FOURNY & Pierre MALCHAIR

1989 11 min vidéo

Between Andenne and Givet, 60 km along the river Meuse, human labour of lock keepers left ponderous marks on the river banks. To the rythm of rising and subsidence, the rythm of the water, earthmen execute to the eyes of the seamen a labour full of dangers.

Pierre-François LIMBOSCH

1996 26-56 min Beta SP

Ricardo Vinos is a photographer born in Mexico of republican Spanish parents who fled Spain under Franco. Hundreds of black and white portraits of Spanish exiles living in Mexico bear witness to their history. Photo sessions, interviews of exiles and Ricardo Vinos' own running commentary weave the narrative of this documentary.

Violaine DE VILLERS

1996 78 min Beta SP

Three young Tutsi women bear witness to the massacre of their families during the months of April, May and August '94 in Rwanda.

Marc-Alexandre PIERSON & Danny TROSSAT

1987 26 min vidéo

Originally from Marocco, Jimmy Gourad arrived in Brussels while he was still very young, where his father has been working for 25 years at the Société des Transports interurbains. His brothers are tradesmen, he is a professional boxer.

Richard KALISZ

1983 30 min vidéo

Video-documentary on communication between a prisoner and a woman. There is no question of social comment about prison life but rather of revealing poetry and drama through the inherent contradiction of the prisoner and the material object and the symbol.

Jean-Luc DARDENNE & Pierre DARDENNE

1983 50 min vidéo

A topology of the work of Jean Louvet, the author, Belgian writer and Walloon whose plays form parts of experiments which are milestones on the uncertain face of contemporary theatre production.

Annick LEROY

1990 12 min vidéo

Disturbing the obscurity and silence of the night, Georges Halein has become a well-known firework-maker.

Stéphanie BATISTON & Bénédicte LIENARD

1990 10 min vidéo

Brussels. Marshalling yard « Tours et Taxis ». One bight of january 1990. A refectory at meal interval, « schafttijd »...

Eve BONFANTI

1990 16 min vidéo

One night, in the silence and solitude of his coupole, Jean Surdèj, astrophysician and surveyor of the time in the univers, evokes part of his vision of the world, humans and stars.

Rafaël NEDZYNSKI

1990 13 min vidéo

The crowd visiting the professional fairs at the Heysel Palace of Exhibitions makes way for the isolated and solitary guards.

Chergui KHARROUBI

1990 13 min vidéo

Marie-Rose’s portrait, night nurse in an institute for elderly people. From seven in the evening to seven in the morning, she is alone with « her » residents.

Marc VANHELLEMONT & Thierry VANGULICK

1990 13 min vidéo

For two years, Philippe has been working every night in overnight forwarding.

Hubert GALLE

1984 28 min 16 mm

At fifty, when visiting the casualty department at La Louvière, Louis comes across a classmate, Marina, whom he has most touch with.

Monique QUINTART

1989 7 min 16 mm

A potter? That brings to mind everlasting pots and dishes. It can well be something different. In her studio, as if in a strange vessel, Pascaline Wollast works in clay.

Anne-Françoise PERIN

1984 43 min vidéo

Eva believes that her dreams are reality. She is not surprised when in her presence places and objects dissimulate and the same people reappear as different characters. She takes on the role necessitated by each situation as a matter of course, without being in the least irritated by its absurdity. Her feelings however are real, she is violent when she sets out to attack, just as she is frightened when she is threatened and has to try to escape from the person following her. She becomes a mother when she is confronted with a baby but she does not hesitate to give it away as and when it suits her. She meets a man who looks like a famous actor, then finds herself appearing as an actress in film, the partner of a film star. She accepts the rules of the game, acknowledging that what matters is not winning or losing but rather playing one’s role without losing track of the dream.

A JOURNEY AROUND MY ROOM

Olivier SMOLDERS

2008 26' 35 mm

Secluded in his room, a film-maker evokes the journeys and places, real or imaginary, wich were the making or the breaking of him. From images collected over the years, « Voyage autour de ma chambre » investigates, in a poetic manner, the difficulty each person has in finding his true place in the world.

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.

AN ANGEL PASSES BY

Marie ANDRE

1985 42 min vidéo

Anita, the prostitute, stands in the center of this tornado, of this ballet. She is the soul and the break of it. She is the latest character in this portrait gallery in which, since the beginning, Marie André has drawn up and erased silhouettes and glances with a still subtler asserted mastership. A prostitute loves her pimp with passion. The man takes advantage of her youth and her beauty with the rough demand of the male who feels and knows that their link originates from a sado-masochistic relationship in this infernal circle where sex and money lead to no other issue than silence and death. This universal type of story plays on social as well as individual relationships. The setting of the action, the « Veemarkt » quarter in Antwerp, next to the harbour, corresponds to this almost archetypal stage where we meet characters strongly forged with our pulsions of fusion and rupture : the sailors and the whores.

ANAK KELANA

Jean-Claude RIGA

1997 85 min 35 mm

The chronicle of a remarkable cruise in Malaysia. On the board of the boat Mark has built using the ancient native traditions, he roams the seas of South-East Asia, spuring modern cities.

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”.

BECOMING

Loredana BIANCONI

2004 80 minutes Beta digit

Loredana Bianconi accompanies a female friend on her search for a job, a very perillous quest when you are forty five years old.

BEGINNINGS

JARA MALEVEZ

2010 38' Beta digit

From water to air, from narrowness to infinite space, from darkness to light, from warm to cold, from enclosure to exposure… This documentary follows 7 newborns and their parents During the first minutes after birth

BORN TO FILM

Frédéric SOJCHER

2004 60min Beta digit

A construction worker, a projectionnist and a college teacher are filmakers in Belgium, willingfully amateurs. Their reality is delirious ; their films, a stupefaction. Admired by Benoît Poelvoorde, these Don Quichottes of cinema question Hollywood.

CAMILLERI ALLA SICILIANA

André BUYTAERS

2007 54 min. vidéo

Italian writer Andrea Camilleri invites us to Montalbano’s house, his hero’s home in Vigata

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.

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.

CENTAURE (THE)

Pierre DE LATTRE

1991 26 -52 min Beta SP

The extraordinary relationship between an amateur horseman and his war horse. A portrait of Portuguese bullfighting.

CHEMIN DES AIGLES (le)

Frédéric DUMONT

1992 26 min 16 mm

Two young eagle-loving acrobats perfect their number for one of the world’s most prestigious circuses, drawing their inspiration from the birds.

CHILD AT WORK

Marta BERGMAN

1999 52min Beta SP

Miners, servants, apprentices, glassmakers, wool graders ... They were all between 10 and 14 years old, in those days, when they started their career as labourers. Memories of those who where never children

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.

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.

COMMENT DIRE

Eddy LUYCKX

1984 15 min vidéo

Neo-expressionist painter Paolo Gasparoto.

CONNECTIONS

Caroline D'HONDT

2004 52 minutes vidéo

Connections is a film that leads us on a path to the discovery of others and of ourselves. It is a journey based around the meetings of both men and women in the heart of the underground systems of two cities: Mexico City and Brussels.

CONTRACTS

Manon GARY

2007 55 min. vidéo

Brussels, 2007. Manon turns 32, has a degree, and looks for a job.

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.

DERNIER AMOUR D’UN CASANOVA (le)

Jean-Claude ADELIN

1996 52 min vidéo

In an old people’s home, folk living there are carring for love, despite treasons, castings out, illness, suffering and bereavements.

DEVINIERE, THE ASYLUM

Benoît DERVAUX

2000 90min vidéo

A cineast of the real accompaining through their daily life of controlled rebellion, those admitted where no other psychiatric institute refused, at La Devinière - an asylum.

DILUVIO

Patricio LAGOS

1997 28 min Beta digit

A man confronts the sea with his art in the course of an instinctive ritual.He takes us on a journey of initiation across the unspoilt beaches of the isle of Chiloé and the gigantic sandy bay of Mont Saint-Michel.

DOSSARD

Alain MARCOEN

1986 52 min 16 mm

The lone runner trains in all weathers in the hope of attracting a sponsor.

DREAMS OF PAPER

Muriel LOTH

2001 10min40sec Beta digit

One real character and her entire life through photographs, re-printed, copied, coloured, and animated in the style of the decennies concerned, as the poem to her, from 1900 to our days.

DUSTMEN

Jean-Christophe YU

1998 30 min Beta digit

We usually watch them, from the distance, those who bring us comfort in our day-to-day life, as they collect our trash. They are dirty and noisy, they’re the dustmen.

EARTHEN MAN

Boris LEHMAN

1989 40 min 16 mm

At Boris Lehman’s request, sculptor Paulus Brun produces a life-size portrait of the filmmaker.

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.

ENDLESS CHAIN (THE)

Claude FRANçOIS

2003 48' Beta digit

Portrait of a fascinating witness of the Belgian surrealist era, Jacques Wergifosse. Close to Magritte, he fondly remembers Nougé, Scutenaire, Mariên, Gutt, tells us about the real and imaginary world to reach with a ÇDadaÈ attitude.

ENFANTS SANS DOMICILE FIXE

Roger BEECKMANS

2007 52 minutes vidéo

Children's portraits in a reception centre for asylum seekers.

ENTRE DEUX TOURS

Rob ROMBOUT

1987 16 min vidéo

The presence of two wholly dissimilar towers in close proximity in a confined landscape, on either side of the Belgo-Dutch border was the starting point for this film.

FAR AWAY FROM ROME

Mathias Desmarres

2009 52 min. vidéo

A well-liked priest suddenly decides to leave everything behind his parish, his friends, his country and head towards an uncertain destiny. Through the personal journey of a man, a thirst for inner truth is revealed

FAR AWAY ROOTS

Pierre-Yves VANDERWEERD

2002 75min Beta digit

It’s a poetic journey across Mauritania in search of elsewhere and in search of other ways of thinking, it’s also the story of an unfinished love for a woman who stayed behing...

FATHER'S BOAT

Clémence Hébert

2009 75' Beta digit

Clémence Hébert returns to her native town of Cherbourg to film what persists of her father who died alcoholic in his burning apartment. Some pictures, a few letters, family videos. Confronting those archives with the portraits of her close ones, she allows the past to meet the present in an attempt to revive what she escaped. The camera goes from hand to hand, from the parents to the children, from the dead to the living. Little by little, the film reveals the history of a lineage. Cherbourg is a harbour and the men of this family are fishermen. The father's boat is a film about grief. The mourning for a father, a childhood, a lost paradise.

FIN DE CARRIERE

Nicole WIDART

1985 30 min vidéo

For many years now, one man exploits one of the last stone quarries in the Belgian Ardennes.

FRITKOT

Manuel POUTTE

2010 59 Beta digit

Humourous portrait of an endangered neighbourhood chips snack, as the little theatre of belgian society

FROM WORLD TO WORLD - GAEL TURINE, PHOTOGRAPHER

Vincent DETOURS & Dominique HENRY

2005 52 minutes vidéo

All over the world, men, women and children are striving against the fatality of poverty. Gaël Turine takes pictures of their daily life.

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.

HISTOIRE(S) D'UNE UTOPIE A VENDRE

Yves CANTRAINE

2006 93 min. vidéo

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HOMMAGE AU SAUVAGE. UN PORTRAIT D'HENRI POUSSEUR

Guy-Marc HINANT & Dominique LOHLE

2005 52 min. vidéo

Henry Pousseur, main contemporary music composer, accompanies the journey, up to to the collection archive, of his multiple oeuvres...

HOW I SEE HER

Karine de VILLERS

2001 48min Beta digit

The director, throught a personnal journal, some pictures and film archives, evocates her mother, who died too early, too lifely, beautifull and rebel. This is the life of a young Danish woman who left for Ecuator to join her belgian husband, before coming back North in the 70’s.

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...

KAMEL

Mourad BOUCIF & T BARMAN

1997 61 min Beta digit

In the heart of Brussels, at the tresshold of precarity and luxury, Kamel lives a happy live among is family and friends. It is the starting point of a long dive in the hell of drug addiction.

Kids from the coal land

Patric JEAN

1999 54 min Beta SP

A film as a letter to the founder of Documentary filmmaking in Belgium, Henri Storck, whose ‘Misery in the Borinage’ is here revisited, as a social standpoint: misery, outcasting, despair, in one of the wealthiest country of Europe - Belgium

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.

LAST ARISTOCRATS (THE)

Pierre DE LATTRE

1990 26 -52 min vidéo

The bare-handed encounter of man and untamed bull in a Portuguese arena.

LOVE PAINS

Richard OLIVIER

1999 54min Beta digit

This film gets to the reasons which drive people to indulge in painfull games of domination and submission. The analyse of the reknown psychoanalyst Serge André unveils, too, the behavioural deviations the exercice of power can foster some of society’s decision makers.

LOVERS ON TRIAL

Manu BONMARIAGE

1992 52-86 min 16 mm

Two lovers have loved each other so to such a degree that they have committed the irreparable.

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.

MADELEINE IN PARADIS

Marie MANDY & Hubert NYSSEN

2001 51min Beta digit

Madeleine is the director’s grand mother. She lives somewhere out of the nervous disease’s inferno and the dry paradise of non-sensibility, since her husband agreed, a long time ago, her being lobotomised.

MAISHA NI KARARTA- LIFE IS A CARD GAME

Philippe de PIERPONT

2004 70min Beta digit

In 1991, the director met a gang of six street kids in Burundi, made a film with them. He promised to visit them again at turning points. Today, they survived the war and the difficulties of their condition, and question our own lifes, with a universal standpoint.

MAISON DE PIERRE CAILLE (la)

Quentin VAN de VELDE

1990 10 min 16 mm

A portrait of the great Belgian painter and his work.

MANU, HIGH ON WHEELS

VINCENT DEVEUX

2010 54' Beta digit

Manu is the indisputable captain of the M.E.C. of Charleroi, his powerchair football team which he wants to reach the top. Manu suffers from myopathy but is nevertheless a high level competitor who would do anything to win the ten last matches of the season in order to make his dream come true and keep a promise: enter divison 1.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MANUEL LORENZO

1989 11 min. 16 mm

Place: Charleroi in Belgium. An Italian family on Christmas morning. The mother, Maria, is preparing the turkey. The father, Luigi, is not doing anything. The grandmother, Mama, has a headache.

MIGHT IS RIGHT

Patric JEAN

2002 84min Beta digit

The director observes a social vioence that keeps in oblivion a whole social class. He documents the reality of social apartheid: social care is progressively replaced by repression. The poor or workless, is a potential criminal, and might become a prison worker.

MISFITS OF FAITH

Richard OLIVIER

2006 52 min. vidéo

In the religious sphere, some people live their faith in a very peculiar way. In a sense they provide answers to all those who doubt...

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.

MOREAU

Michel JAKAR

1996 82 min Beta digit

The original portrait of the famous writer of Belgian origin, Marcel MOREAU.

MOUCHE OU UNE GUEPE ? (C'EST UNE)

André ROMUS

1983 36 min vidéo

Séverine, a young blind girl of 10, discovers Paris through her senses of touch and hearing.

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.

NAVY BLUE

Jean-Claude RIGA

1990 70 min 16 mm

Amid the waves, in the confined space of an angeless freighter, four men are apparently free of all ties to land… But those who are exiled on the sea can be docile preys to a frenzy of nostalgia.

NORTH-SOUTH.COM

Francois Ducat

2008 52' Beta digit

North-South.com" looks at the relations between the developed and developing worlds through the prism of relationships between white men and black women on the Internet. Several stories cross each other, revealing the dreams, hopes and disappointments that underlie these singular encounters.

ORGESTICULANISMUS

Mathieu Labaye

2008 9'20 35 mm

"I think that, when moving, you take over your own life. When you're free to come and go, to have gestures of... love, tenderness, anger, no matter. So when you are deprived of the ability to move, as I am, as many others are... in order to survive you need to reinvent movement. What goes on in my mind is not just intellectual. It's a way of re-creating an inner space which sets me free" Benoît Labaye Orgesticulanismus‚is an animation short delivering a very important message about exclusion due to disability. The film celebrates disability by recognizing the conception of inner space and strength that allow people who are physically challenged to rise above normality. The use of repetitious reinvented moves with the voice over and sound design create an uncomfortable and yet positive atmosphere for the audience.

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.

PAR DEVANT NOTAIRE

Marc-Antoine ROUDIL

1999 60/75min 35 mm

Crossed stories within four notarial plots, in a Haute-Auvergne study. The power of the verb, the gestures and attitudes of the characters involved, so as the private aspect of the plots, unveils a realm of a far-distant, but yet so familiar, world of agreement and compromises.

PARENTS (THE)

Christophe Hermans

2008 70' vidéo

In a small french village in Dordogne, Alain and Richard welcome old persons in their own house. A real attractive option to the traditionnal old people’s home. For months, sometimes years, they live with them forming a family. For Alain and Richard, home and work are intimately bound.

PAUL MEYER ET LAMEMOIRE AUX ALOUETTES

Jean-Claude RIGA

2007 58 vidéo

The film director Paul Meyer, that founded the Walloon, cinema accompanies us through some films - Déjà s’envole la fleur maigre (1960), the film that founded the Wallon cinema, but also Klinkaart (1956), Le pain quotidien (1960/64) and La mémoire aux alouettes which Meyer begins in his 80ies and which remains today unfinished. This film is a walk with Meyer in a freedom very watched by the social censorship of the memory.

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.

PEOPLE OF MIGDAL (THE)

Miel van HOOGENBEMT

1996 52 min Beta SP

Between 1963 and 1991, four German families settle in the small Israeli village of Migdal.

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.

PIER

Michel COUTURIER

1983 10 min 16 mm

A train drawn up at the platform in the station, a lone traveller.

PROVIDENCE (the)

Gérard PRESZOW

2000 85min Beta SP

La Providence Institute, has been created on the bases of a social ideal: to welcome the ones who have been fired everywhere else. Nowadays, the violence knocks at the door, and reigns. The daily hasards are here collected, analysed and compared.

ROPS

Thierry ZENO

2000 56min Beta digit

The life and the work of Félicien Rops, evocated in the walls of the Castel of Thozée, where he long used to stay, before he left for Paris and celebrety.

SIMENON

Jean-Claude RIGA & L. MICHAUX

2003 56min Beta digit

In 1933, Simenon makes a photography report in Ukraine about hunger, where he will meet the heroin of "Les Gens d'en face". Seventy years after, the director discovers Odessa to document Simenon’s pictures, and to repeat his writer path.

Somville, an artist among the people

Jean-Christophe YU

2009 1h15 Beta digit

The portrait of a major artistic icon, early founder of New realism movement/ Somville, fierce fighter for more justice and equality. A painter dedicated to an art tuned with real life, an artist and a man among other men, with seriousness and humor. A speech and an art, healthy and invigorating in these tims of financial crisis and arrogance of elites.

SONIA

Nathalie DELAUNOY

2004 48 minutes Beta digit

Sonia is 52. She has been free-lancing for 30 years around Brussel's Red Light district : she has her own 'salon'.

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.

STUDIO (THE)

Inès RABADAN

2000 28min Beta digit

At the workshop, painters are busy with the project of a large size copy of a Mac Farlane canvass. How to mimic, on more than ten meters, and with several hands, the original gestures of the master...

SUBLIME STEPHANE (THE )

Gérard PRESZOW

1993 45 min Beta SP

A look at the prolific and anguished pictorial work of Stéphane Mandelbaum, assassinated at age 25.

TALKING WORK

Sandrine DRYVERS

1999 26min 35 mm

Faces, bodies and silences, facing the camera and raising compelling questions. People, talking about work, what it means and really is.

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.

TATA

Boris VAN GILS & Lucille REYBOS

2002 52min Beta digit

A film based on the unpredictable meeting and the further friendship of a young european photographer with the wise Tamberma people, in Togo. Adopted as a the chief’s third daugther, Lulu invited us to the skilled construction of her Temple, her house overther...

THE FIFTH SEASON

Caroline Baudoin

2009 56 min. 30 sec. 16 mm

Gaby and Françoise, 78 years old, own a 20-cow little farm in the Ardenne, Belgium. One day, Gaby tells his grand-daughter, a film-maker : « If you want to film me, do it now because I am going to stop soon ».

THIRD LIFE (THE)

Vanja D'ALCANTARA

2005 47 minutes Beta digit

Purificacion Crego is incarcerated since 11 years in the prison of Avila, at 100 km from Madrid. Today, she’s 29 years old. She’s two weeks away from leaving jail.

TRIP (The)

Jean-Pierre RANSONNET

1984 15 min vidéo

A man wearing a raincoat and hat takes a train to an unknown destination.

VENTE DES BIJOUX (LA)

Yves CANTRAINE

2006 52 min. vidéo

While the first stone was put in 1958, in the trail of the World Fair, the Administrative Town of the State was gradually built in the heart of Brussels, until the completion of the Tower of the Finances in 1983.

VERY LAST MINUTE (THE)/THE BROKEN SWORD

Alain MARCOEN

1998 58 min 16 mm

Memories, recalls, of the rare survivor soldiers, still alive when the film was shot, of the First World War. And their presence, precious as grand age.

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.

Hubert FIASSE

2008 27 mn vidéo

Manuel POUTTE

2008 90/52 mn Beta digit

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