LUCA School of Arts

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.

Les Pavés follows a street photographer wandering through Brussels, where unexpected encounters with homeless people lead him into intimate conversations. As he tries to preserve fleeting moments through his camera, he is forced to confront the inevitability of disappearance.

A funny story about a group of silly superheroes who go into the city to fight crime, but find themselves helping a drug thief.

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.

Suffering from insomnia, Arta develops a hobby of collecting pictures of other people sleeping. One night the girl accidentally locks herself out of the house and is forced to spend the night in the streets, dressed in pyjamas.

Two best friends have their friendship tested on a trip to Venice.

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.

If you had the choice to breathe again, would you take it?

Kenneth struggles with Multiple Sclerosis and still keeps it hidden from those around him. During a football game he faces a tipping point.

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.

Short film mainly inspired by the Stijn Streuvels novella 'Het leven en dood in den ast' (Life and Death in the Oasthouse).

Emil is a photographer. He loves photos, he lives photos. Transponder explores his photographic obsession with both observed objects and personal experiences. Emil's life, his present as well as his memories of love and encounters, are captured as a sequence of pictures taken with a camera.

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.

A young woman answers the door.

Déni is trying to find himself. His soul-searching takes him on the traces of his childhood, in the snowy landscapes of Kazakhstan. In an apartment decorated with thick drapes, he encounters his Chechen family and his patriarchal culture. At the mosque, or in the boxing gym, he discovers the closeness of the men of his “clan”. They are all virile and settled in their lives. He is struggling to find his place.

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?

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.

In the middle of a fire alarm at an art school, a staff member receives devastating news and finds an unexpected moment of connection with a student inside a weird costume.

A short film inspired by the Coen brothers.

Somewhere… In a sports centre in Bazel, young people not only learn to walk within the lines but also to explore the boundaries. A portrait about the open-mindedness of girls and boys who, each within their own world, come together in this microcosm to search for connection.