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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.

Michel JAKAR & T. GENICOT

1992 29 min 30 sec Beta SP

Relationship between teh disembodied voice on the radio and the voiceless body of the dance r evoked by Brigitte Assélineau.

A SCHOOL IN...

Roger Beeckmans

2009 52' 16 mm

Ce film rassemble des discussions en classe et des témoignages d’adolescents issus de l’émigration. Ils se sont exprimés en toute liberté. Certains d’entre eux sont nés en Belgique. Se sentent-ils Belges pour autant ? La question reste souvent sans réponse, même s’ils affirment sans hésiter qu’ils aiment vivre en Belgique, qu’ils espèrent y trouver du travail et fonder une famille. Fonder une famille ramène à la culture et à la religion. J’ai découvert, sans véritable surprise d’ailleurs, que les mots LAICITE,MIXITE,EGALITE n’ont pas le même sens au fronton des écoles et sous les minarets des mosquées. Des garçons m’ont dit qu’ils n’épouseraient jamais une fille d’ici, trop libérée à leurs yeux, et qu’ils iraient chercher leur femme au village. Des jeunes filles ont répondu qu’aujourd’hui les filles dans les villages ont évolué, qu’elles ne sont plus prêtes à « fermer leur bouche ». Deux filles ont accepté d’être filmées à condition de pouvoir garder leur voile. Elles ont choisi de le porter par soumission à Dieu et non aux hommes. Elles estiment ne pas avoir à recevoir de leçons des garçons. A propos de mixité et d’égalité entre filles et garçons, le chemin est encore long à parcourir. Il suffit d’entendre les avis des garçons et d’observer comment filles et garçons occupent l’espace dans une classe. Comme à la messe autrefois, à la synagogue et à la mosquée aujourd’hui, les filles se regroupent d’un côté, les garçons de l’autre. Afin que les garçons ne soient troublés par la présence des filles. Personne ne semble préoccupé par le trouble des filles lorsqu’elles s’assoient à côté des garçons. Les élèves d’ »une leçon de tolérance » ont grandi. Ils ont quitté le monde de l’enfance et atteint cet âge que les adultes qualifient d’ingrat. Ils se posent les questions que se posent tous les adolescents, aussi ceux issus de l’émigration : Est-ce plus difficile pour Mohammed que pour Pierre, Paul ou Jacques de mener à bien des études et de trouver du travail ? Comment choisir entre le Coran et la Raison ? Quel sens donner aux mots citoyenneté, identité ? Brecht a dit : « quand le rideau se ferme, les questions restent ouvertes ». Il en est ainsi dans ce documentaire.

AMATEUR (the)

Olivier SMOLDERS

1997 26 min 35 mm

A pear-shaped movie ...", fable on loneliness, about a man who decides to change his life, starting to gather woman as a collector. He films them, all so different from another, pursuing his inner journey.

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.

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

CHARLES AND FELICIEN

Claude FRANçOIS

1994 15 min 35 mm

A portrait about Charles BAUDELAIRE & Félicien ROPS.

ESPRIT DE BIERE

Claudio PAZIENZA

2000 52 min 35 mm

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.

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

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.

FIGURES D'OUBLI

Claude BOUCHE

1988 72 min vidéo

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

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.

IN ALBANIA

Loredana BIANCONI

2009 59'45'' vidéo

« Go and see what we left behind... » With these words in mind, a filmmaker journeys into a discovery of an almost abandoned and little known country: Albania. Her film is an impressionist journey, a moving tale cast in footprints, vivid memories and free thinking narration that takes an overview of the past sixty years of the country. The communist dictatorship seems to be jumbled up with the neo-liberal democracy which dominates every detail of daily life, the lost beauty of the landscapes and the limitless stories of emigration. Little by little, developing over various appearances, the film unveils a tormented country whose inhabitants are living more and more outward looking lives as they struggle to retain a sense of belonging in their own homeland.

K O R

Joanna Grudzinska

2009 55 min. Beta digit

Warsaw, Poland at the end of the 1970's. The workers' revolt, violently repressed by the authorities mobilises a group of individuals who create KOR, or Workers' Defence Committee. Heir to the communist regime opposition movement since the end of the second world war and supported by figures rising up against social injustices since the 1920's, KOR is comprised of committed people, with simple yet efficient methods, unusual ethics, the will to shatter the state information monopoly and to establish an independent workers' organisation. In 1980, KOR's activities lead to the birth of Solidarnosc, the country's first independent Union. By offering an insight into KOR's actions and words with three of its protagonists, the film recounts the story of one of the ends to Communism in Europe.

LOW VOICES

Claudio PAZIENZA

1993 105 min 16 mm

In a little village in Italy’s Abruzzi region, the legendary figure of the Baron miraculously reapears with his crow.

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.

MINA (la)

Loredana BIANCONI

1989 58 min vidéo

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

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.

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.

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 ».

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.

Hubert FIASSE

2008 27 mn vidéo

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