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.

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.

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.

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.

Litsa BOUDALIKA

1990 14 min vidéo

We follow Saliya’s journeys through the night. She is a 8 year old girl. The portrait gets gradually clearer : she sells flowers.

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.

Françis DUJARDIN

1990 12 min vidéo

Contrasting portraits of two bar pianists. The first one comes from Africa, seeking fame and glory in Europe.

Marc-Alexandre PIERSON

1990 12 min vidéo

Henri, « ebony face and shoulders as a quarterback, from Cameroun, about 50 ». he runs a night snack-bar in Matonge, Brussels’ African district. He is the undisputed boss of both kitchen and room. For more than twenty years, he has been one of the main figures of Brussels’ black sleepless nlghts.

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.

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.

Dominique LOHLE

1994 10 min 30 sec 35 mm

In a room, 4 monitoring cameras filming. A hall: a time machine; 2 physicists discussing.

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.

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.

Nicole WIDART

1984 17 min vidéo

The novel La Disparition de Maman (The Disappearance of Mom) by Eugène Savitzkaya, poet born in Liège in 1955, is transposed into images and sounds.

Pierre LOBSTEIN

1985 23 min vidéo

During a live performance in the RTBF, Liège Studios, Jean-Pierre Verheggen put his own spontaneously invented names on anonymous faces filmed in Liège during 1984.

Manuel GOMEZ

1992 5 min 35 mm

Animation on toilet paper, around a scatological theme.

A BRIDGE OVER THE DRINA

Xavier LUKOMSKI

2005 18 minutes 35 mm

About the war in Bosnia we remember above all names of cities like Sarajevo, Mostar, Bihac, Tuzla, Gorazde, and a massacre in Sebrenica. But we don't remember Visegrad.

A FLEUR DE PEAU

Marie-France COLLARD

1986 7 min vidéo

When, in a dark room, the skin becomes a canvas, a choreography takes over, pulsing to the body’s rhythm.

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.

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.

ALGERIA, THE LION THEFT

Pierre DE LATTRE

1995 58 min Beta SP

Composed mostly of underground footage, this film offers a new, provocative vision of what’s going on in the Arab world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

AN ATOMICA

Tamara LAI

1991 18 min vidéo

Choreography of two naked dancers, evolving in a superb natural setting.

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.

ANCHES SOUS LE VENT

Marque WILLEMS

1991 53 min 35 mm

The story of the works of Belgian musician Erik Sleichim.

ANGELUS (THE)

Willy KEMPENEERS

1984 10 min 35 mm

A child takes us to a hostile world, bathed in a strange and captivating atmosphere.

ANTHROPEAU

Joël GODFROID

2006 11 min. vidéo

Manifesto for a statuary. From the French sculpter Benoît Polvêche's imaginary to the film frames of his creations and their own lives.

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.

ATLANTIDE

Marc-Emmanuel MELON

1989 26 min vidéo

An essay on funereal sculpture.

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”.

BARIA AND THE BIG WEDDING

Manu BONMARIAGE

2001 82min-58min 35 mm

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.

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

BETWEEN US TWO... BEIRUT

Dima AL JOUNDI

1994 52 min 35 mm

The reunion in Beirut of two Lebanese sisters: one a filmmaker, the other a painter, amidst the reconstruction.

BICHORAI

Philippe de PIERPONT

1994 58 min Beta SP

Six street children in a neighbourhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, talk about their lives riddled with insecurity.

BLACK ISLAND (THE)

Rob ROMBOUT

1994 53 min 35 mm

On a drilling platform in the middle of the North Sea, 80 men and women work and live seven days of the week.

BOIS DES OMBRES

Françoise HONOREZ

1992 7 min 35 mm

At night, a thick fog spreads and shadows lengthen. The wizard’s light annihilates the gnomes. Clay figure animation, after the Waldschattenspiel.

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.

C'EST NOTRE TERRE

Jacques DESCHAMPS

1987 52 min vidéo

Le film C’est notre terre is a documentary consacrated to life on the Maliotenan Indian reservation.

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

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.

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...

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.

CHANT DU SATELLITE (le)

Joëlle DE LA CASINIERE

1983 17 min vidéo

An artistic inquiry into television’s use of media and rhetoric.

CHARLES AND FELICIEN

Claude FRANçOIS

1994 15 min 35 mm

A portrait about Charles BAUDELAIRE & Félicien ROPS.

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.

CHEVAL CORPS ET AME

Tamara LAÏ

1990 38 min vidéo

A poetic approach to the singular relationship between man and horse.

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.

COME TI AMO

Marie ANDRE

1983 22 min vidéo

Relationships are formed between individuals for whom the film serves as a meeting place.

COMME S’IL Y AVAIT DES PYRAMIDES

Jacques-Louis NYST & Danielle NYST

1990 31 min vidéo

In the heart of the Milky Way, there are two houses: a glass pyramid and a thatched cottage.

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.

COTE ET COURS

Joseph ROUSCHOP

1989 11 min vidéo

Action and intervention at the Brussels Bourse: notebooks open, pens poised, jaws tensed, eyes glued.

D'UN MUR L'AUTRE

Patric JEAN

2008 90' vidéo

From the ancient Berlin wall’s remains to the new Ceuta gate, in Africa, this road-movie takes us across Europe. Four borders but one axis: a multicultural society rich with its diversity despite a tradition of rejection. From North to South, the film offers humourous and intimate encounters with women and men who compose a new society with energy and generosity. Far from cliché, this film has an optimistic and sometimes squeaky look on Europe and its immigration.

DAME DU LAC (la)

Michèle BLONDEEL

1983 18 min vidéo

A hotel room on the banks of Lake Léman. A young girl strolls and thinks about the letters she must write.

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.

DEATH AT VIGNOLE

Olivier SMOLDERS

1998 26min 35 mm

While shooting a family movie in Venice, a film maker wonders how family images play a part in love and death stories.

DEJA VU

Eric LEDUNE

2004 11min 35 mm

Nightime, three characters and a singular encounter. « Excuse me Sir, but we know each other, don’t we ? »

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.

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.

DERNIERS JOHNNIES (les)

Jean-Luc COHEN

1992 26 min vidéo

“Johnny-Onions”, that is how the British called the Breton onion sellers who, in days gone by, trekked on foot or on bicycles to the United Kingdom.

DES USINES POUR Y VIVRE

Christian MESNIL

1984 26 min 16 mm

In Verviers, a centre of the wool industry, a number of abandoned factories have been transformed into housing projects.

DESTINEES

Bernadette SAINT-REMI

1989 13 min 16 mm

Hesbaye, Belgium, with its pastoral landscapes and its cattle market bustling with men, livestock and money.

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.

DIABLE DANS LA PHILOSOPHIE (le)

Luc JABON

1990 38 min vidéo

The transformation of philosophical discourse into living words.

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.

DISCREET IDENTITY

Simon ARAZI & Laurent VAN LACKER

1997 26 min Beta SP

Intimate portrait of the Muslim community of Yunnan, a national minority never considered fully Chinese, nor possibly Arab.

DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION

Loredana BIANCONI

1997 116 min vidéo

They were twenty years old in Italy, in the 70’s. Three woman quitted it all, devoted to revolution. Today, released from jail and from the torments of the war, they reconsider their armed fight, which brought too much pain and destroyed lifes.

DO-IT-YOURSELF

Eric LEDUNE

2007 12' 55'' vidéo

"If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job." Washington Post - December 26, 2002

DORMER WINDOW

Thierry AUGE

1989 54 min 16 mm

Bourbonnais villagers take the mentally handicapped into their homes to share their lives, their problems and their work.

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.

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.

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.

ENCADRE (L’)

Manuel GOMEZ

1991 9 min 35 mm

Polaroid animation. A picture framer feels framed by the framework of his life, from which he tries to escape.

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.

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.

EXIT

Willy KEMPENEERS

1984 9 min 16 mm

A sort of fantastic dream in which a strange figure tries to escape from an absurd world.

EXTASES

Michel JAKAR

1989 29 min vidéo

In a black box on a water bed, two nude dancers move to the music of Philippe Boesmans.

F(R)ICTIONS

Véro CRATZBORN

1997 29 min vidéo

The 'Vigies-Pirates' operation, launched by French police forces as an answer to terrorism, is the plot of a journey through fear, where humour will save the day.

FACE VALUE

Johan VAN DER KEUKEN

1991 120 min 16 mm

An ensemble of positions and relations in an hypothetical and partial Europe.

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.

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).

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.

FRAGILE

Daniel WIROTH

1998 8 min 35 mm

A melancolic, but also funny, love story between two wine glasses.

FRITKOT

Manuel POUTTE

2010 59 Beta digit

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

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,...

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.

GAO RANG (THE BITTER RICE)

Claude GRUNSPAN

2001 52min Beta digit

The portrait of reknowned Viet-Cong cameramen, interviews and archive films of their surviving the war with France and USA, of their propaganda. It is also the history of the birth of the Vietnamiese cinema, somewhere in the jungle, during the bombings.

GIGI, MONICA & BIANCA

Benoît DERVAUX & Yasmina ABDELAOUI

1996 82 min Beta SP

The frequent beatings, the days spent begging, the nights huddled in Bucharest station, the goofing off, the scrapes with the police: this is the tragic fate of two street children in Bucharest... a fate they will try to escape.

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.

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.

GRIMOIRE MAGNETIQUE

Joëlle DE LA CASINIERE

1983 26 min vidéo

An album of images that relates in music the life and passion of a Muslim saint.

GROOTECLEAS (HUBERT)C’est net même si c’est flou

André ROMUS

1998 56 min Beta SP

Three daughters recall the memory of Hubert Grooteclaes, a very close father, but also, a reknowned photogrpher, and a very secret man.

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.

GUICHET (le)

Anne DUCOBU

1989 11 min vidéo

A place where people wait patiently, dully or fretfully for a seal, a stamp, a passport... Brussels’ Cité Administrative.

HAIKU

Eric LEDUNE

1999 12X40 35 mm

All the wiseness of these small japanese sayings, through the imagery, handcrafted and colourfull, a little naive and minimalist, of Patrick Ledune.

HAMBOURGOISEMENT

Michel URBAN

1987 5 min vidéo

What chip shop, chip-stall and chippery does not sell hamburgers today ? The chip pan and chip are not, however, symbols of this little country.

HAVE A GOOD TIME

Eddy LUYCKX

1986 13 min vidéo

Give me just a movie, but good. There is a movie, a good one, so long, and have a good time…When the irongates will be open, we’ll be able to get in, like in a grotto full of treasures. Images in box, the one necessary to satisfy customer. J

HISTOIRE(S) D'UNE UTOPIE A VENDRE

Yves CANTRAINE

2006 93 min. vidéo

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Hole (The)

Mauro SOLDANI

1985 5 min 35 sec vidéo

The Hole does not simply seek to give information, it is a lampoon about town planning and an imaginative piece of work deriving its originality from the medium used : video-simulation.

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...

HOPE YOU’RE DOING WELL

B. Van Der AVOORT

1998 15 min 16 mm

To belong to a family ..... a film made with personnal footage and also archive material, to recount the life and hopes of three generations.

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.

HOWLING FOR GOD

Dan ALEXE

1998 64 min 35 mm

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

HYALOIDE

Jacques-Louis NYST & Danielle NYST

1985 27 min vidéo

A question posed in front of the TV plunges Thérésa and Codca into their childhod memories.

ILS NE MOURAIENT PAS TOUS MAIS TOUS ETAIENT FRAPPES

Marc-Antoine ROUDIL & A-S BRUNEAU

2005 80 minutes vidéo

Each week, in three Parisian public hospitals, a psychologist and two doctors are treating men and women who are suffering from work related problems.

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.

INSOMNIE PASTORALE (L’)

C MARREIROS MARUM

1997 12 min 35 mm

Joe is is haunted by a morbid imagination. Insomniac, he exorcizes his neurosis manufacturing terrifying horrors, and sketching all night long little monsters.

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.

JUDITH

Marie MANDY

1989 13 min 35 mm

Judith and Mélanie live in a block of flats looked after by an excentric caretaker, Madame Ponce. The arrival of Robin a handsome young man with a passion for music, will change Judith’s life. T

JUST A LINK

Frédéric DUMONT & Bernard BALTEAU

2003 52 minutes vidéo

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

J’AI LA TETE QUI TOURNE

Jacques-Louis NYST & Danielle NYST

1984 17 min vidéo

The recording tape turns, the earth turns, night follows day and one’s thoughts and images soar.

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.

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

KINEMARMOR

Manuel GOMEZ

1990 5 min Beta digit

The transformation of a block of marble into a triangular sculpture representing “Juno and Cupid”. Animation based on more than 5,000 Polaroid shots.

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.

KRONE (the)

Nathalie BORGERS

2002 52min Beta digit

The Neue Kronenzeitung, proportionally to Austria’s size, is the most-read newspaper in the world. Claiming representation of the ‘austrian soul’, this sensationalist paper comes down to be a trend settler, as the future of Austria is written through ‘revelations’, and with it, the future of democracy.

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.

Landscape with the fall

Claudio PAZIENZA

1997 103 min Beta digit

A comical "ciné-journal" not quite intimate, nor outrageously public. After they've been checked, dissected, polished and calibrated, your eyes discover an incredible painting and few figures of an undescrible country.

LAST ARISTOCRATS (THE)

Pierre DE LATTRE

1990 26 -52 min vidéo

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

LAVOMIE

Willy KEMPENEERS

1987 6 min 16 mm

A cat comes to an isolated house. A pot-bellied, ugly figure lets it come in. At midnight the drama begins.

LETTRE TO JEAN-LUC GODARD

Claudine DELVAUX

1987 37 min vidéo

There is she. She is here, in Liège. There is he. He is there, in Rolle or in Paris. The letter form is a double game : there are two characters ( she and he) ; two different times (that of writing and that of reading) ; there are two places (here and there). Above all there is that which goes from the one to the other.

LIFE LESSON

Boris LEHMAN

1995 105 min 16 mm

To attain Knowledge, men and women must accept a certain loss of innocence. "Life lesson" is a poetic and philosophic reflection on this theme of paradise lost.

Life of a reader at the end of the book (The)

Luc JABON

2004 55 minutes Beta digit

How can you tell the story of the everyday life of a reader ?

LOOKING AFTER SILENCE

Eddy LUYCKX

1997 52 min Beta digit

Germain DUFOUR, capucin monk thus having made the vow of poverty and working class priest in liège (Belgium).

LOPUKHOVO

JARA MALEVEZ

2005 57 min. vidéo

Lopukhovo... a forgotten Ukrainian village deep in the heart of the Carpthian forest, suspended between the dismantling of the ex-Sovietic Union and the approach of the new European Union.

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.

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.

LUCE'S BESA. AGAINST BLOOD JUSTICE

Nathalie Rossetti & Turi Finochiaro

2008 52 min. 16 mm

In 1991 Luce’s son was murdered in Albania. Exploring the turmoil the country went through along with the personal and spiritual experience of this woman who chose to forgive the man who murdered her son, thus following the “Besa” specified in Lek Dukagjin’s Kanun, we will move along the historical, religious and social path of today’s Albania. Today the “forgiven” sees Luce as a “mother”: thanks to her he has been totally rehabilitated in the eyes of society… Luce has now become a peace mediator to help other families involved in a process of “blood justice”.

Lunch Box (The)

Floriane DEVIGNE

2007 52 min. vidéo

It is said that opening a box is always risky...

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.

MAJNOUN, OU CONTE DE LA FOLIE ORDINAIRE A BEYROUTH

Bernard DAMSEAU

1990 52 min vidéo

War has transfigured the mental landscape of the Lebanese.

MAKING OF ANGELS (the)

Eva VISNYEI

2000 7min30sec 35 mm

In a strange place, a king of infernal machine, a naive and curious child-being discovers a marvelous and cruel worls, governed by an all powerfull mother.

MALAISES

Manu BONMARIAGE

1984 55 min 16 mm

Seraing, the cradle of Belgium’s steel industry and its contagious stagnation.

MANSION

Thierry MICHEL

1985 55 - 90 min vidéo

Six convicts of long date, six prisoners as they really are. Six people pursuing existence behind closed doors, facing life and death, escape and suicide.

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.

MARCHIENNE DE VIE

Richard OLIVIER

1995 52 min 16 mm

A scathing look at a former heart of the steel industry, with its brew of disparate and sometimes opposing cultures.

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?

MEMOIRES

Jean-Jacques ANDRIEN

1984 56 min 16 mm

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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.

MINA (la)

Loredana BIANCONI

1989 58 min vidéo

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

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...

MISTRESSES

Marie-France COLLARD

1996 75 min Beta SP

Sometimes the most insignificant of events can transform a peaceful existence into one of secret rendezvous and a “forbidden” relationship.

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.

MONTSALVA

Christophe FRAIPONT

1986 50 min 16 mm

Between Matadi and Antwerp, three weeks of ocean. A route much less used these days than in colonial times. The Montsalva is probably making her last trip.

MOREAU

Michel JAKAR

1996 82 min Beta digit

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

MOTHER (the)

Michel JAKAR

1997 135min Beta digit

In the eyes of the theatre devotee, Bertolt Brecht is the personification of the playwright engagé. Yet behind the dogmatism, there lingers a true compassion.

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.

MOUVEMENT 3 AND 4

Tamara LAI

1987 6 min 40 sec vidéo

Third and fourth parts in a serie of videogrammes devoted to the topic of movement. Mouvement 3 is based on improvisations of the dancer Jean Fürst. Mouvement 4 presents two young mongols, Patrick and Nicole.

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..

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.

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.

NORD EXPRESS

Rob ROMBOUT

1990 57 min vidéo

In 1896, Nagelmakers launched the Nord Express linking Paris to St. Petersburg.

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.

ODILE

Reynald HALLOY

2000 35min 16 mm

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

OEIL ET LA CAGE (L')

Jean-Claude RIGA

1982 46 min vidéo

A visit to a disused prison with a former detainee on an open house day.

OF CONVICTION

Julie Freres

2007 55 min vidéo

In February 2007, the Portuguese people were asked to vote either for or against decriminalising abortion. The film, built around the everyday lives of four women with totally opposing convictions, closely follows the referendum campaign from behind the scenes, on the streets and in the media.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PECHEURS A CHEVAL

Marc-Antoine ROUDIL

1993 11 min 35 mm

Poetical evocation of an encounter betwen man, sea, horse and wind.

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 BOUT DU MONDE (LE)

Xavier LUKOMSKI

1997 58 min Beta SP

A visite in the land of one of the last century’s utopia, taking us along the industriaol but also delicate rythm of Salin de Giraud, Camargue, chemical production center, but also a living area founded by Ernest Solvay in 1896.

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.

PICTURE'S CONCISE ANATOMY

Olivier SMOLDERS

2009 21' 16 mm

A la fin du 18ème siècle, des artistes florentins ont reproduit dans la cire des corps mis à nu par les scalpels de la chirurgie. Dans un geste symétrique, cette Petite anatomie découpe les images elles-mêmes, pratiquant des incisions, des greffes, des mises en abîme. Il s’ensuit la naissance d’un peuple d’étranges créatures.

PIER

Michel COUTURIER

1983 10 min 16 mm

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

PLACE DE LONDRES

Violaine de VILLERS

1984 10 min vidéo

A series of portraits of young 12 to 14 year olds, recorded on the fly.

POLDERS

Claudio SERUGHETTI

1998 40min 35 mm

No other landscape in the world reveals better what is the encounter of the land, the water and the sky. Accompaining the poet Gaston Compère aboard his small boat, we discover magical surrounds.

PROCESSION ET CAETERA

Eric LEDUNE

1994 13 min 35 mm

A bizarre procession in veneration of the mummified relics of a crucified Mickey. Animation mixed with sequences using actors, 3D, insertions, simulations and more than ten thousand pencil drawings.

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.

PUNK PICNIC

Sandrine DRYVERS

1998 60 min Beta SP

The day to day life and dreams of a 'Punk' community, calmy striving for a better life, and to keep its squat, an adress where every wanderer should find a home.

RADIO SCHIZO

Karin RONDIA

2002 54min Beta digit

“Radio Schizo” is the story of a few young people suffering schizophrenia. Tehy are preparing a radio programme about their illness.

RED CORNER BLUE CORNER

Alain MARCOEN

2008 52' Beta digit

From ring to ring, this film plunges into the world of boxing. It gives an impressionist portrait of men and women driven by this popular sport and reflects the life of a region.

REMAKE 71

Jacques LIZENE

1984 58 min 7 sec vidéo

« Small Liège’s master of the second half of the 20th century ».In Remake 71, Jacques Lizène extols once more « the boring » as an esthetic category.

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.

REVIVRE

Violaine de VILLERS

1996 60 min Beta SP

Where to find the force to think and speak after experiencing the Rwandan massacres? Five women attempt to address this question.

RONDE DE NUIT

Jean-Claude RIGA

1984 53 min vidéo

At night in a steel factory near Liege, men live to the slow rhythm of burning coal.

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.

ROUND AROUND THE RING

Marie-Jo LAFONTAINE

1982 12 min vidéo

Theme : boxing is show-business. The display of the body and the body image. (…)It is also a parody of violence, this face to face, this continual challenge to the adversary. The pretence in the action, in the scene presented. Bolw for blow, body against body, the interplay of sensuality. (…) It is a display of special effects, of illusions. The spectacle of death. » (Marie-Jo Lafontaine)

RWANDA, LES COLLINES PARLENT

Bernard BELLEFROID

2005 50 minutes Beta digit

Eleven years after the genocide, the film follows the survivors and torturers before and after the first Gacaca tribunals during which they meet each other face to face.

RWANDA, PAROLES CONTRE L’OUBLI

Violaine de VILLERS

1996 78 min Beta SP

Three young Tutsi women testify to the massacres and geocide in Rwanda.

SAD

Yves HANCHAR

1987 10 min 30 sec 35 mm

In the middle of the road Yvette is calling to a lover who does not come and let her in. At that moment when a day finishes and a night begins e neighbour attempts suicide, one love story will finish, another begins, an argument will bring the whole street out, paper planes will fall to the ground as well as bicycles, and they will make much fun of the duped lover who will go sadly away.

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.

SAPIN (le)

Willy KEMPENEERS

1984 4 min 16 mm

A little figure plants a pine tree. He’ll watch it grow with a singular passion.

SAVAGE

Michel URBAIN

1987 1 vidéo

A family : Nelly is painting the orangeness of her hair ; Dorian mimes in baggy trousers ; Laurence, who looks like a Hindu guru, is a musician. Banal subject matter and a lame excuse. A serie of desires.

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.

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.

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.

SKIN’S SORROW

Richard OLIVIER

1997 57 min Beta SP

SKIN'S SORROW is a film telling stories about loneliness, despair and neurosis because of the loss of an animal - who had been a lifebelt.

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.

STRAY DOGS

Yasmine KASSARI

1995 7 min 35 mm

A man is elected to kill the stray dogs in a little village.

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.

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"

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.

TASTE OF KOUMIZ (the)

Xavier Christiaens

2003 57min Beta SP

A train, initiating this inner trip. The desert passes behind the window, trhough which a …. Momgolia, in a summer campbase in the mountains, yurths and wild horses cealing their secular bond. Off, Kolia tries to gather sensations and sparse memories about the deportation of his father.

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 ».

THE HIGH MOUNTAINS GUIDES

Didier HILL-DERIVE

2007 54 min. vidéo

A film dedicated to High-mountain Guides of Chamonix.

THE ONES WHO LED NAPOLEON TO MOSCOU

Pierre BARRE

1984 15 min 16 mm

Draught horse breeder Joseph Destrée takes his horse through to first place in the country’s most prestigious agricultural show.

THE SCRIPT IS SPEAKING

Bernard GARANT

1992 52 min vidéo

An approach to scenario writing through the words of such European script writers as Olivier Assayas, Raymond Depardon, André Dussolier, Alain Tanner, etc.

THE TRUTH COMMISSION

André VANN INN

1999 90 min Beta SP

To succeed in establishing a truly democratic society: this is the main ordeal of the «Truth and Reconciliation Commission» set up by Nelson Mandela, in South Africa. During the year of 1996, this commission’s enactment was filmed, where victims, tortures, and witnesses of the Apartheid bring their memory of the recent past. Above a simple caption of the commission’s witnessing process, the film will take us to meet the «actor» of South Africa’s contemporary History, showing also the huge energy of a whole population, the rebirth of a nation, despite notorious destructive pressures. A film also about the power of the verb, and communication, the only condition conceiving a possible future, over the painful bases of the past.

THE WALLET

Vincent BIERREWAERTS

2003 10 min 35 sec 35 mm

One day, a man finds a wallet on the streets. Did he really see it? He decides to bring it back to his owner, and also to keep it for himself...

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.

THREE LITTLE BUDDY-BUTTS (the)

Manuel GOMEZ

2000 6min Beta SP

Manu Gomez’s variation on the Three Little Pigs’ Fable ... which could be renamed : The Three Little Butts ...

TO TELL YOU ABOUT US

Jean-Luc SLOCK

2002 13 min Beta digit

Marie's grand father came from Yugoslavia, her grand mother was Dutch... Sebastian, aged 11, is Belgian from Chile. Tola, 9 years old, was born in Cambodgia. There are also Sarah, born in Addis-Abeb, Nola form Ivory Coast ans all the other young animation film makers around the project "A Whistler's tale".

TOURS ET DETOURS DE L’INSPIRATION

Nicole WIDART

1992 29 min vidéo

An analysis of filmmaker Chantal Akermann’s work and scenario writing techniques.

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.

TREES

Marc-Antoine ROUDIL & A-S BRUNEAU

2001 50min 35 mm

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

TRIO BRAVO

Luc JABON

1992 52 min vidéo

The littlest big band in the world, recorded live with all the multiplicity of the European sound.

TRIP (The)

Jean-Pierre RANSONNET

1984 15 min vidéo

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

TRIP TO LOURDES (The)

Hubert GALLE & Isabelle LEDUC

1983 51 min 16 mm

10th July, 1982, 3.00 pm on the platform at Tournai station. Nearly 1500 diocesans gather for the 186th « Annual Leave Pilgrimage ». There are two special trains to take them, one a night train specially equipped with ambulances coaches.

UBU

Manuel GOMEZ

1994 9 min Beta SP

Animated meat. A huge, unruly parody of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu-Roi.

UN CERTAIN ART BELGE...

Jacques LIZENE

1993 52 min Beta SP

The portraits of several contemporary Belgian plastic artists.

UNWILLING

ANNE LECLERCQ

2008 8 min 35 mm

Une femmes en fin de jeunesse est assise dans son appartement sale et poussiéreux. Elle ne fait rien, elle pense.

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.

VOICE OVER

Claudine DELVAUX

1990 26-36 min vidéo

Two worlds are involved. The internal world, closed, virtually isolated, uncertain link with the other world: the telephone. The other, external world exists only to pass form one sealed-off place to another.

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.

WALKING MAN (THE)

Philippe de PIERPONT

1992 60 min vidéo

A man walks from Brussels to la Panne. A subjective survey of northern Belgium and the people who live there.

WHITE SHE-CAMEL (THE)

Xavier Christiaens

2006 52 min. vidéo

A planetary future … drought threatens from all sides … the seas disappear… A time traveller observes the signs of a civilisation in distress

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.

WOMEN AT WORK

Marie-France COLLARD

2000 53min Beta digit

A film dedicated to women hand-workers, with mondialisation as a background. Rosa and Marie are living their last months within the Levi’s factory, after 20 years. in Turquey, anonymous voices tell their harsh conditions; in Indonesia or in the Philippines

ZIP ZAP

Mauro SOLDANI

1988 51 min 16 mm

Comedy clips showing a basic viewer and the object of his emotionnal involvement and desire, seen through the television set. The TV Frame becomes an open gate to his imagination and fantasy breaking in and out the screen.

ZUGSPITZE

Colette DUCK

1982 12-45 min vidéo

A 2,964 meter high mountain, forming the frontier between Germany and Austria, is seen under different aspects : from mist to storm, day to night, coming into view to fading out.

Hubert FIASSE

2008 27 mn vidéo

Jacques MORIAU & Tatiana de PERLINGHI

2008 53 Beta digit

The four-seasons chronicle of a tiny belgian village, where farmers and newcomers live together between tradition and ecology. As anywhere, life is a daily quest to work, mobility and happiness, while farming declines, city suburbs spread so as futuristic projects. Only there, « new rurals » work together to materialize values inspired by ecology: windmills and houses made of wood, earth and straw are builded in community, and traditional celebrations are revived …

Eve DUCHEMIN

2008 52 mn vidéo

Manuel POUTTE

2008 90/52 mn Beta digit

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