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Browse 59 movies from LUCA School of Arts
When his father brings his new girlfriend to the seaside, a withdrawn boy is forced to share his grief with someone he doesn't want to know.
Jun 2025
In an authoritarian dystopia where silence is law, Eris discovers a secret resistance keeping expression alive. But her brother, a relentless law enforcer, will stop at nothing to silence them - not even her.
Feb 2026
Two best friends have their friendship tested on a trip to Venice.
Nov 2025
Oscar works at a company that designs mental simulations, technologies that expose the crumbling inner worlds of patients. What begins as observation soon draws him deeper into these fragile realities, until the line between watching and living dissolves.
Resonating Surfaces is triple portrait, of a city, a woman and an attitude to life. For the personal story of Suely Rolnik, who is a Brazilian psychoanalyst currently living in São Paulo, involves the Brazilian dictatorship of the sixties as well as the Parisian intellectual climate surrounding Deleuze and Guattari in the seventies. The film is woven through by different themes: the other and the relation to otherness, the connection between body and power, the voice and, ultimately, the micropolitics of desire and of resistance.
Nov 2005
Jul 2019
After the recent loss of his wife Angèle, grandpa René tries to stay positive, finding comfort in simple joys like his cacti and cat Musti—but the weight of impermanence lingers.
Was the Brussels Innovation fire (1967) just a dramatic accident or was there more going on? Through exclusive interviews and edited archival material, a conspiracy theory is constructed in which the CIA and some property developers are assigned important roles. Despite the frivolous mysticism, there are many truths in this mockumentary!
Jan 2002
A story that explores transformations of body, identity and relationships. It captures moments suspended between loss and discovery, solitude and desire. Without offering clear answers, it reveals the complexity of searching for connection, meaning, or belonging.
Jun 2023
If you had the choice to breathe again, would you take it?
Jun 2018
The film explores the lives of Alessandro, his friend Cléry and his grandmother, who all struggle with the passage of time and the choices they make. As Alessandro repeatedly undoes his successes and loses in the metaphorical game of life, the story highlights the consequences of wasted time and the ongoing struggle against personal failure.
Jan 2025
After years of traveling in a motorhome with her mother, a reserved 11-year-old girl returns to Belgium. There, she faces an unexpected friendship. Can she open her heart, even though goodbye is inevitable?
Alma always felt distant from her roots. Through separations and growth, Alma will learn to connect with her shadow and thus feel connected to her identity.
Oct 2022
Kenneth struggles with Multiple Sclerosis and still keeps it hidden from those around him. During a football game he faces a tipping point.
Dec 2022
Plagued by cluster headaches that turn his life into a living horror, Adam secretly seeks euthanasia as a final escape. When Evelyn discovers his plan, they are forced to confront an impossible choice.
Jun 2024
In intimate close-ups the camera captures an idyllic scene that seems to belong to a different era.
Mar 2021
A funny story about a group of silly superheroes who go into the city to fight crime, but find themselves helping a drug thief.
Feb 2023
'Get Ripped' centers on the encounters of the twenty year old Niko and a personal trainer. Though they meet daily at their gym, contact remains indifferent and silent. As Niko's efforts yield results, a game of manipulation unfolds. 'Get Ripped' exposes the mental decay of a young man set to transform his body.
Mar 2014
A young woman answers the door.
Jan 2024
A young woman bikes through a night of restless escapes and missed connections in Brussels, as a quiet despair slowly takes hold.