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.
Baria is a young woman from Comoran Islands, born in Marseille. Promised before her birth to a Comoran Grand marriage, she faces her fiance when she gets 17 years old. This cinema of the real shows the being torn in between two cultures, and the Baria’s illusion of freedom.
The Inner-travel hazards of a yellow, ambered, bitter liquid which, for millenaries entered the bodies of manies through one end, to exit thourgh another. Infinite miles of bowels and years of filtration of the Beer’s spirits have possessed as many inspirations.
In Macedonia, former Yugoslavia, two Sheiks fight for the control of a brotherhood of Howling Dervishes. Far from God and fom any mystical live, Their quarrel becomes a contest : who is allowed to transpierce himself during the great spring ceremony
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.
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.
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.
Situaded at the very end of South America, Patagona is considered as a desolate and deserted region. The director makes us discover various personnalities.
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 ».