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Jun 2022
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.
Jan 1996
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.
Oct 2016
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?
Feb 2012
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.
May 1976
"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?"
Aug 2005
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.
Mar 1979
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.
Jan 1982
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.
Jan 1987
Judith, 7 years old, stays with her mother in her deceased grandfather's house and tries to console her.
Nov 2024
At the age of 15, Florian thinks he can communicate with the dead through fire. That belief makes him the weirdo in the village where he lives. One day, by dint of being called a monster - he becomes one.
Jul 2021
Short film.
Jan 1989
May 1987
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.
Oct 2022
The story of a dysfunctional family in a miserable butcher shop.
Renato is expecting a visit from his daughter Natalie and his grandson. At the last moment, she calls to cancel. The old man leaves his house and goes for a walk in the park. When he comes home, Natalie has surprised him by bringing little Alexander.
Anémone is a modern siren. Every night, she sings in a bar, seduces a man, brings him home, and kills him. Her roommates share the same routine and project: get rid of all men on Earth by killing them one after the other.
Jul 2023
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.
Jun 2011
A short documentary about Brussels' roller derby team, Les Brussels Derby Pixies.
Mar 2022
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.
Apr 2023