INSAS

"I often think I remember my childhood, but then I realize it's a story I've been told, a photo, a home movie. How can I know if it really happened?"

Due to drug abuse, a 13-year-old boy is placed into a detention center for young offenders. After a week, the judge will decide if he must stay there or go back home. Confronted with the adults, the judge, the psychologist and the social workers, the boy uses his most effective power to rebel against them all: lying.

Short film.

Gaspard must reach « Other Town » to win Agathe's heart back. Lacking confidence, he asks his sister Constance to drive him there. She accepts on one condition.

A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

Lucie, a discreet young girl, studies the cello at the music Conservatory. One night fellow students convince her of going to a “friendly” get-together. A few drinks later a game of truth is on, in which Lucie got tricked. We follow her torn between peer pressure and her beliefs.

Judith, 7 years old, stays with her mother in her deceased grandfather's house and tries to console her.

1976: a university hospital in Brussels. Old women gather in a common room. Sick? Perhaps. Lonely, above all. The film is also the perspective of a North African woman on other women, nurses and patients. The medical staff discuss their working conditions, and the filmmaker questions, challenges and bears witness to what she sees in this ‘death ward’. Another illness. Unclassified. A very malignant tumour. A tumour that proliferates in a society ‘proud’ of its social security system but which creates a ghetto of the unproductive, the ‘left behind’, the elderly who hurt themselves by contemplating their loneliness in a hospital ward.

Antoine has a desire. His passion and his love is so overwhelming that he has to stay close to Bruno. He loves his warmth and he needs it. But, as with any relationship, soon comes the time of detachment — and what will happen if Antoine's body stops responding?

Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel, everyone is looking for love. Hôtel des Acacias was an exercise guided in 1982 by Chantal Akerman at Belgium’s INSAS audio-visual college.

Hubert Durieux is a mild-mannered provincial banker whose orderly life—with an ex-wife, an adoring daughter, and a mistress—gets hilariously upended when he becomes entranced by a free-spirited Roma woman who steals his car and hides in its trunk.

After years of learning the art of hiding from the gaze of others, as a result of the social pressure exerted on overweight people, the director learns to reclaim public space and become visible again, while confronting his own image.

A wordless travel on a barge from Clabecq to Ruisbroek. This is the Boris Lehman’s student movie done for the INSAS school.

Upon receiving her residence permit, Salma, a Syrian refugee, discovers that the Belgian authorities have revoked her and her son's nationality. Salma then fights for the recognition of their lost citizenship.

Natacha is working at a gas station in the countryside. One day a man and a little girl enter her shop. They've hit a deer with their car. The little girl is upset because of the accident but it seems that it is not the only thing that bothers her.

While his parents are away, a little city boy goes to the countryside. This stay will be one of initiations and forbidden games in the company of Maedeli, a little girl who is not afraid.

To meet the Greek government’s impossible criteria, Nick, a photographer at PIrée, is forced to retouch the features of those who are refused entry. Two of these immigrants take us through the streets of Athens, where their place is being built step by step.