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The Barons have a motto: "slack off more to live longer." Every human being is born with a credit of steps. Every step you take brings you closer to death. We Barons know this from the start.

Four girl friends in their late twenties go on a reunion weekend to the sea, to the house where they spent their teenage years. What should have been a convivial gathering deteriorates into an unavoidable personal and mutual confrontation. They understand that they must reassess their friendship and realize that their lives have changed for ever.

Martin is a successful man with a well-paid job at a pharmaceutical company. He lives with his family in an upscale neighborhood of a Belgian city, and is already making plans for another home in Tuscany, Italy. However, soon after he becomes the victim of an embezzlement scandal, everything begins to take a turn for the worse. Martin will soon be involved in a series of events and decisions that will put an end to the stability he has achieved in his life, and cause him and his family to fall into a downward spiral together.

"Manneken Pis, the raining child" - takes you into a warm and sometimes tragic Brussels. You will discover the story of a city with capital ambition, which carefully hides its wealth and pride under the derisory appearance of a little boy who pee. Why? Through the investigation between past and present, you will see what this curious symbol contains. And why the inhabitants of Brussels boast ... to be modest.

In the heart of the Eurasian continent, the ancient center of the world where the Silk Road connected China to Europe, the circus is a deeply rooted cultural phenomenon. This film focuses on two circus artists, whose lifelong friendship under the dictatorship in Uzbekistan is affected by the differing political choices they make under the dictatorshop in Uzbekistan.