Take Five

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs, guards. Friday is a castaway, the only one from his boat to have survived when sailing from Africa to Italy. During his strolls on the island, Robinson confronts his own solitude by keeping a diary - that works like augmented reality - filled with extraordinary beings and events, which both fill and trouble his daily life.

Through a series of animated art boards depicting a decaying Venice, the film unfolds like a set of postcards, capturing the mythical city's final moments of fragility. Blending archival footage with contemporary observations, and anchored by the story of the 1902 collapse of St Mark's Campanile, Venezia Diorama invites us to reflect on a city slowly eroding, yet suspended in time.

1967, the Six-Day War breaks out. Mina sends her 9-year-old daughter Lili from Tunisia to Saint-Denis. Unhappy in this forced exile, the young girl gradually rediscovers a taste for life in a bleak public housing estate, alongside her uncle Jo, by creating a garden and putting down new roots.

The Passerby is locked up and will free herself. And by following someone very different to herself, she will set out to discover something improbable that will shape her.

Mario, a young dancer living in a small village has to face the loss of his beloved best friend Lenz, victim of an attack in a gay club.

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.

A police squad on a mission… A football match… Tension rises on both sides… The shooting starts and the team must face the pressure. When rivalry and betrayal slide onto the field, the team spirit and trust fly to bits.

Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his Belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, Ysma, Damien is still her child, the one she never abandoned when he got caught up in drugs. A son who sought to protect his mother despite it all, a man attempting to liberate himself from his addictions and faces his past to get through.

Take5* is a filmed series of encounters between 5 artists and 2 guests who meet for the first time in a specific city to speak about Europe, festivals, the arts and their role in society.

After an accident, a young woman has to take care of her best friend's child, whom she has agreed to be the godmother of.

Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side, the girls take on the appearance of cats and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.

In a dilapidated post-Arab Spring Tunisia, Jelil, 16, decides to follow his two older brothers, Majid the small-timer and Yassine the idealist, to Sicily. But there, there is disillusionment, they find greater misery there. Jelil and Majid then choose the path of delinquency, and a lousy move costs the life of Yassine, the only one who kept the balance in the group. Traumatized by the death of his brother, Jelil wants to return to Tunisia, but Majid, manipulated by a local mafia, pushes him against his will to do one last big thing: murder a little gangster in Belgium. Without knowing it, Jelil and Majid participate in the murder of a much bigger fish, the consequences of which will be tragic for the two brothers...

The history of the Ariane rocket is a space epic that has seen Europeans unite and innovate to make a place for themselves in the space race. Faced with Soviet and then American supremacy, men and women from the four corners of Europe have achieved the impossible. Ariane has become a true monument, thanks to the passion of those who dreamed of it and to their tenacity in the face of the various obstacles that stood in their way. This undeniable European success is now at a turning point in its history. The new Ariane 6 program is currently being developed to meet the challenges of tomorrow: will it be able to meet the challenges of a more competitive environment than ever before?

After 10 years of struggle in Paris, Emma Peeters has to face the facts: she will never be an actress. She decides to commit suicide on her 35th birthday. That is when she meets Alex, a funeral home employee.

This movies examines a period in modern Belgian history which is as heavily mocked as it is revered: the wave of UFO sightings recorded at the end of the 80s.

After a failed career as a musician, Helen returns to provincial life. Here she encounters ghosts of her youth in the shape of former band members, her great love – and a son she never had.

Film offers an insight into the world of three taxidermists and their working methods. It is not about collecting and displaying the most exotic exhibits possible, but rather about documenting endangered animal species as realistically as possible. Maurizio, Robert and Christophe work in this field and all three are currently preparing to take part in the European Taxidermy Championship.

Explores how Hitler’s personal library provides a look into his mind and how it significantly informed his worldview.