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- Magda, a 7-yo bitch formerly used in dogfights, just had her first litter. Her loyalty towards Ian, her master, is upset by a raising and violent maternal instinct that endangers his woman and daughter. Taking his chance to get back into business, Ian channels her ferocity and forces her away from the pups, straight back to the fighting pit.
- Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.
- The Mercy of the jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
- An imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country's businessmen.
- In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.
- Invalids devastated by war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo make the trek to the capital to make their voices heard, to demand dignity and some kind of compensation.
- Luisa, a 40-year-old singer, and her companion Julien, a guitarist and composer, have had a group together for many years. One day, her father - whom she has not seen since she was a teenager - comes to see her after a concert. The encounter, during which he tells her he is seriously ill, unsettles Luisa. She begins to look differently at the life she leads.
- Idrissa, civil servant, lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. Due to IMF budgetary restriction measures he loses his job. When his wages dry up, he is forced to live at the expense of his wife. He strives to regain his manly pride.
- A village, a family, a little boy who likes to wear dresses, the return of the wolf and everyday life, ordinary, banal. These elements are used to tell of hidden desires.
- 1960 marked the end of the colonial empires across the African continent. France disappeared from the map, leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, which is the name of the currency that still circulates in almost all of its former territories south of the Sahara. How does it come, those countries, once they regained their freedom, never denounced this strange legacy? The film delves into a little-known story that started in the 19th century and continues to the present time.
- A man returns to his home in the Colombian countryside after a long fishing night and discovers that paramilitary forces have killed his two sons and thrown their bodies into the river.
- Tamara, a young Tel Avivian is sitting in a coffee shop, preoccupied with her own thoughts when she is approached by a complete stranger with an urgent request. This encounter will lead Tamra on a mysterious voyage, in search of the truth
- Oscar, eight, likes to wear dresses. "Sissy Boy" portrays a day in his childhood. Under the troubled and undecided gaze of his family, an obstinate boy affirms his uniqueness.
- A road movie investigating the cultural impact the United States has had over Europe in the past 6 decades. After World War II, the US implemented the Marshall Plan, a complex massive economical aid to Europe that has changed the European way of life. Meeting key figures of our society like Wim Wenders, Philippe Labro, Etienne Davignon, Michaël Naumann or Daniel Cohn-Bendidt, the film will focus on how much the European perspective has been shaped by the US.
- They have committed serious acts, offenses or crimes. The justice system however considered that they were not responsible when committing these acts.
- In Moscow, on the Red Square, film-maker Xavier Villetard opens the doors to the mausoleum of Lenin, which is unusual, since it normally stays closed. From 1924 until the fall of the USSR in 1991, the embalmed body of the hero of the October Revolution was publicly displayed as a holy relic. By using voice-over narration, the filmmaker directly addresses Lenin. Despite this freedom of expression, the archival images and comments of historians tell a different story: more than 24 years of Soviet history. It is presented to us by exploring the ritual of mummification of important Communist leaders, focusing especially on the Stalin era. Those who worked in the mausoleum's laboratory, a place that is now left abandoned, bring light into this little-known subject with the help of numerous details: the embalming of corpses and the conservation of Lenin's dead body. The documentary finishes off with a key question: What does the Russian state consider doing with the body of the founder of the USSR? An interesting documentary, sometimes slightly dark, which is to be viewed by secondary school students, who have already studied the history of the Soviet Union, as well as modern Russia.
- In Nazi concentration camps, The Gulag and Japanese war camps, deportees wrote cooking recipes. Hundreds of those recipes were copied in small notebooks by starving human beings of all origins who took huge risks to write and keep them. Telling about these objects of survival, the film explores a phenomenon of incredible Resistance. Until now, no study or publication had ever been made on them.
- The Kivu in Democrat Republic of Congo, a lake in one of the most unstable region in the world, is portrayed by the stories of local fishermen. They live on, and thanks to the lake, they know all his secrets. They tell them, drifting with the flow on their dugout or during a late evening gathering along the lake's banks: two warring countries - Rwanda and DRC, the rumor of a killer fish, a gigantic reserve of methane about to blow up, or old woman's fabulous memories - So many stories about life and death, fishing and legacy, which form a tales' collection and reveals the secret identity of an amazing place.
- Zero dB is an art film, on art. It is an essay on creation that follows the conception of a piece of music from start to finish, with the ambition to bind the filmic language to the musical creation that it unveils. Using an original grammar, the director combines the opus's various points of view; that of the creator, the participants surrounding the creator, and that of the spectator - the listener. It is a film to sharpen our perception of image and sound.
- Aline, 16 years old, is facing a sudden loss: she cannot visit her father, who has been imprisoned. She tries to reach him but she is confronted to her mother and to the prison rules. She accidentally meets a boy who might be her last chance to reach her goal.
- The invisible routine of the inhabitants of Marrakech inner city, the never-ending ballet of the system's wretches. Everyday they are dozens coming to the Medina's walls, hoping someone will give them some work. They are the invisible workers making the rise of this touristic city possible.
- June 2015, Burundi, thousands gather in the streets of Bujumbura to manifest against Pierre Nkurunziza's third mandate. As I film the first acts of violence and the victims therefrom produced, I become separated from my family. I'm obliged to flee, due to the increasing violence in the country and the risks bought on by making this film. The second half of the story is the search for my children in Burundi and Rwanda. On both sides of the frontier, I meet those who stayed and those who fled. Their stories, often brutal and fragmented, express a huge amount of uncertainty.
- « Traces, women's imprints » is a film that ventures to the discovery of three grandmothers kassenas (Burkina Faso,) their granddaughter, and the exclusively feminine art of this region's mural paintings. Between these women's portraits and a traditional art form, « Traces » is a painting on paintings that reflects upon transmission, education and memory in the context of a world in mutation.
- A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medical practice in the Belgian countryside. During the winter, a meteorite disintegrates in the sky, a phenomenon that will leave an old man mute. The young doctor is called to his aid.
- It all started with a Kung Fu movie.
- Plume is a simple man in complicated situations. Daydreaming and absent-minded, he lives in an alternate reality, as if for us to see it differently. Plume is unique, he does not look like anyone else; however he is looks at us, perhaps more than anyone else.
- "I come from a people, the Fang, where the dead never leave the living. But since we have become Christians, we are no longer able to hear them." Lost between the here-and-now and the beyond, Natyvel Pontalier's spiritual quest in Gabon takes her back to her family's roots.
- Ivo, who is in his thirties, gets off the train and calls his wife to tell her he is on his way home. His four-year-old daughter answers the phone and tells him that she is home alone. The young frightened father does everything he can do to get home as soon as possible. When passing a household appliance store, he sees an image of war on a television screen. It shows a young father coming out of a destroyed house carrying his dead child. Stressed and confused, Ivo loses track of reality with every minute that passes, as he tries to make his way home. His own reality and the reality of war become inextricably linked and indistinguishable.
- June 1960. The Belgian Congo is on the verge of gaining independence. A young Congolese boxer accompanied by his older brother come to Brussels to compete in the final of the Afro-European middleweight championship.
- In a Brussels retirement home, a Belgian and a Congolese drink to their long lasting friendship. They argue over an old story - one of broken dreams and wasted lives.
- LIFE follows a group of young African women in the streets of Douala - Cameroon. On the screen, they are videoclips dancing stars, but in real life, they struggle to survive. Between the sacrifices these women make to live their passion and the everyday problems that lie upon their path, Life documents the courage and the will it takes to be an artist in a precarious social environment.
- Under the eyes of guards who have also been their torturers, Burundi's prisoners expose the violence they suffered by turning it into a musical comedy. Kubita is a raw film experience in which the creative process at the heart of theater becomes a cathartic ritual of personal liberation.
- Virgil, 18 years old, is a flanker for the junior rugby team of Rieumes, France. After a game, the senior coach announced that he would play with his senior colleagues the following week. Both fascinated and terrified at the same time, does tries hard to fit in with his new team.
- Hitch & Blotch are in line with emblematic fiction pairs. Unlike actors or cartoons, they are abstract characters : two liquid entities, a pair of stains, literally and graphically speaking. Like Yin and Yang, colorful, movable and audible, Hitch & Blotch live the fable of their life, fears and desires.
- Filmmaker Simon Backès investigates an infamous 1978 New York art exhibition called Stolen Art, where an unknown Czech artist named Pavel Novak presented a collection of amazing reproductions of master works by Rembrandt, Sérusier, Malevich, Van Gogh, and Courbet. Soon after its opening, the FBI closed down the show. A rich collector had complained that the copy of Gustave Courbet's "The Calm Sea" on display was in fact his stolen original. Who was Pavel Novak? An artist? A thief? A bit of both? Backès' curiosity is catching, as he visits the paintings listed in the Stolen Art collection's catalog, inside museums and high-security archives all over the world. He pores over these paintings, searching for the artist behind the creation. Is true art illegal? Do paintings lose their beauty once they are privately hoarded and can no longer be appreciated collectively? The questions raised are as intriguing as the answers.
- "Those Waiting For The Birds" is the portrait of a game: "pigeon racing". Through passionate pigeon racers, such as Robert Calonne, an old mason and famous champion, Serge Taillieu, a young unemployed but diligent player, or Herbots Philip, who made breading pigeons a lucrative business, the film director is contemplating this sport today. As a kind of "horse racing of the poor", it has became a professional sport with a lot of money involved: thus dealing with doping, increased costs, international trades and speculations.
- Rayna is a Bulgarian prostitute, working in Brussels' Red Light District. One night, she shares a mystical and sexual moment with an African client, who dies shortly after. That night that will haunt her.
- Calcutta, 1950: Satyajit Ray directs his first film and, by opening his eyes on his country's realities, breaks every conventions of Indian cinema. During twenty-five years, Ray's personal photographer Nemai Gosh will be his shadow. This movie tells their parallel destinies, it ventures Satyajit Ray's extraordinary artistic journey through the obsessive lens of Nemai Gosh. It is the touching and mysterious story of a photographer's disproportionate fascination for his subject. Today, at sixty-five years old, Nemai Gosh has decided to fight to preserve his treasure from time and humidity. He is installing the air-conditioning in the two little rooms where he preciously keeps the prints and the 90,000 negatives of Ray. But Nemai Gosh is not receiving any help in his quest, not even a word of encouragement. He is alone, humble and gentle, and as yet to heal from the death of his only true friend. For Nemai Gosh this documentary also means his last act of faith, it will help convey to future generations the fruits of his lifetime spent for another. He finally says what he bears on his heart. Giving access for the first and the last time to the entirety of his archives, he tells us: "this is the last thing I do for Ray". Parallel destinies: this film also follows the magnificent path of a great humanist: Satyajit Ray. To tell his story, it is to share the crazy adventure of his first master piece, Pather Panchali, it is to be overwhelmed by the universality that comes out of his movies, it is to discover his own town Calcutta, and to feel strangely at ease in an extremely different society, it is to understand the cultural legacy that Ray left to the world, and it is finally to realize the love that he had for his friends, his actors, and his collaborators. "Manikda, my life with Satyajit Ray" pays tribute to a creative genius, and to his privileged witness: Nemai Gosh, the only one who still lives with him everyday. Because of him, Ray resists to the bites of time.
- 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.
- In Ivory Coast, Rasta who is 16 is traumatized by an armed conflict that is ravaging his country, haunted by a tragedy that he keeps secret, he will begin a journey through the war zone held by the Rebellion, in search of a mysterious militiaman.
- A distant shore. A boat arrives. Someone singing in the distance. In a few shots the film exposes its thesis: A trip from one mediterranean shore to the other side. The trip from Axelle, arrived in 1962 as a young teacher after the independency of Algeria. From one shore to the other, and from one time to another. A tribute to the friendship of Ali, recently deceased. Loyalty to ideals and Independence. Loyalty to the people that dreamed it and that earned it. First documentary of Dounia Bouvet-Wolteche, Les Racies du Brouillard offers rich super 8 textures in black and white. It takes the spectator from Alger to Tizi-Ouzou, to Ali's house. A story told in three voices (Axelle, Ali and Dounia, the filmmaker) remembering politically charged conversations, imprisonment and even death penalty. But leaving melancholy aside, the film looks for the source of the mist. That is, looking for the impossible to avoid being engulfed in resignation.
- This film follows Babetida on her journey back to her childhood and her homeland, Guinea-Bissau. It is counted as a personal tale.
- The film school of Sderot, located in the south of Israel 2 km from the Gaza border, is a microcosm of daily life in the country. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Palestinians, Israelis, left-wing radicals and nationalists share classrooms but rarely opinions. Here, cinema isn't just an artistic pursuit. It is a nakedly political act. This film school is a sociological laboratory, confronting complex paradoxical ideologies and political positioning. It is a place of cultural geopolitics, intent on redefining perceived boundaries...
- Monique Mbeka Phoba, the director of the film, spent part of her childhood In Congo-Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, where witchcraft plays an integral part in people's lives. She then went to live in Belgium where she lost contact with certain specificities of her culture. Nevertheless, she was aware that her parents were still dependent upon this cultural belief system, from which they kept her and her brothers away. But, one day, Monique decided to answer to her questions by undertaking this journey back to her roots, guided by an 84-year old men accused to be a witch from his childhood. Ranging from the daily practices of witchcraft in Congo-Kinshasa to the frank discussions between Monique Mbeka Phoba and the people close to her, the film follows the rhythm of its maker's search.
- LUCIE has this recurring dream where she falls deeper and deeper, into a never ending vacuum, as if irresistibly drawn by a blinding star. When she's awake she sees lights flashing in her field of vision, altering her conscience. Her parents are worried. Doctors try to find an explanation and a cure. Where does this most shining star comes from? What obscure corner of our life do these flashes try to shed light on so insistently?
- Brussels 2011. Anna sews Nicolas' suits since several years. In her workshop they speak Greek, in remembrance of the country they have had to run away from during the Colonels' regime. But they did not leave it for the same reason. Tonight Anna's routine will be shattered by a fateful announcement, tonight Nicolas will learn why Anna did not kill him.
- "Mémoire de missionnaires" takes us back to the Belgian colonization of the Congo through the prism of evangelization. The last witnesses of this period tell us about the astonishing and little known fate of those men of the Church, exiled on the edge of the world to preach the gospel. Their testimony give us a different perspective on this period. Those witnesses show a part of the colonial history which is often commented and yet remains unknown. They give us a lucid and critical view on the Christianization of Africa.