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A Song For My Land

A Song For My Land

Films Opening Ceremony
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Director: Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta

Year: 2024

Duration: 95Min

Country: Argentina, Germany, Colombia

Can a rural school music teacher change the world?
Ana + Yek ("Me + You")

Ana + Yek (“Me + You”)

Belgian Special Films
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Director: Romy Mana & Zohra Benhammou

Year: 2024

Duration: 85Min

Country: Belgium

Ana + Yek (Me + You) follows twin sisters Sanaa and Zohra. What begins as Zohra’s exploration of their Moroccan heritage gradually reveals the shifting dynamics of their relationship, as Sanaa’s deepening love for Islam becomes more apparent.
Anima

Anima

Competition Films Young vision
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Director: Josefien van Kooten & Anna Witte

Year: 2024

Duration: 27Min

Country: The Netherlands

In the port of Rotterdam, seafarers stay on ships in transit for months, only connected to the outside world via their telephone.
Bénédicte

Bénédicte

Belgian Special Films
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Director: Violaine de Villers & Graham Riach

Year: 2024

Duration: 44Min

Country: Belgium

In the film, we see an artist whose body becomes her co-star on stage.
Can't Feel Nothing

Can’t Feel Nothing

Films International Screenings
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Director: David Borenstein

Year: 2024

Duration: 81Min

Country: Denmark

What is the internet doing to us? With curiousity and humour, director David Borenstein travels the world to investigate who is pulling the strings when the internet makes us angry, sad, horny or just plain indifferent.
Canta Angola

Canta Angola

Films International Screenings
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Director: Ariel de Bigault

Year: 2020

Duration: 59Min

Country: France, Portugal, Angola

For forty years, Angola was plagued by devastating armed conflicts that ended in 2002.
Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp

Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp

Best of the Festival Films
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Director: Carmen Chaplin

Year: 2024

Duration: 90Min

Country: UK, France, Spain, Netherlands

A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon.
Cyborg Generation

Cyborg Generation

Competition Films Young vision
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Director: Miguel Morillo Vega

Year: 2024

Duration: 63Min

Country: Spain

The life of Kai, an eighteen-year-old musician, changes drastically after making the radical decision to implant technology in his body in order to perceive sounds from space.
Dad's Lullaby

Dad’s Lullaby

Competition Films International
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Director: Lesia Diak

Year: 2024

Duration: 78Min

Country: Ukraine, Romania, Croatia

“What kind of love do you have for him?”
Dance Me To The End

Dance Me To The End

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Camille Ghekiere

Year: 2024

Duration: 61Min

Country: Belgium

When Siméon, a Dominican caregiver in training, brings his Southern flair to a retirement home in Ghent, he is confronted with the limitations of the healthcare system, but at the same time, he wins the hearts of the residents.
Dreams of Djenné

Dreams of Djenné

Competition Films International
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Director: Elisabet Gustafsson

Year: 2024

Duration: 82Min

Country: Sweden

Swedish Sophie has lived a glamorous life in the European fashion world as a model and designer when, in her 50s, she decides to leave everything behind.
Emergence Program - Day 1

Emergence Program – Day 1

Films Young Belgian Panorama Young Belgian Talents
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59, rue des Bayards, Les âmes fêlées, Oblitérer, Grip, Bruxelles En Gros Plan, Creuser La Mer, Riot GRRRL, la Nouvelle Vague, Crushed, Pornatopia
Emergence Program - Day 2

Emergence Program – Day 2

Films Young Belgian Talents
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Leçon d’objet, Do you hear the wind in the pine trees ?, The Wiels Marsh, In Echoing Silence, Frappe à ma porte, Bontle, The Deserters
Emergence Program - Day 3

Emergence Program – Day 3

Belgian Special Films Young Belgian Talents
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La Neige aux Pieds, The Art OF PASCALE HECQUET, Entre nos mains, Rides du Lion et Pattes d’Oie, La Flor Del Camino 
Emergence Program - Second Screenings #1

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #1

Films Young Belgian Talents
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Frappe à ma porte – Louise Toussaint, Crushed – Camille Vigny, Bontle – Marie Ruwet
Emergence Program - Second Screenings #2

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #2

Films Young Belgian Talents
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Brussels Close-Up – Ilja Sirčenko, Three Brothers – Maura De Troyer, Digging The Sea – Robin Dehenain
Emergence Program - Second Screenings #3

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #3

Films Young Belgian Talents
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Do you hear the wind in the pine trees ? – The Wiels Marsh – La Neige aux Pieds – Obliterate
Emergence Program - Second Screenings #4

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #4

Films Young Belgian Talents
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April 2 / 17:00

Riot GRRRL, la Nouvelle Vague – Eva Tonelli

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Riot Grrrl, La Nouvelle Vague explores the incandescent legacy of Riot Grrrls, from the sonic riots of the 90s to the seething scene in Brussels. From the raging riffs of Lavender Witch to the scathing punchlines of the duo Z&T, the film ...

Evelyne Forever

Evelyne Forever

Films International Screenings
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Director: Hélène Bares

Year: 2024

Duration: 67Min

Country: France

It’s the end of summer, and Hélène, recently out of a complicated relationship, takes refuge with her cousin Evy, a spirited biker who lost her sight later in life.
Glass, My Unfulfilled Life

Glass, My Unfulfilled Life

Best of the Festival Films
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Director: Rogier Kappers

Year: 2023

Duration: 94Min

Country: Netherlands

A glorious coming-of-old-age docu-comedy!
Googoosh - Made of Fire

Googoosh – Made of Fire

Awards Ceremony Films
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Director: Niloufar Taghizadeh

Year: 2024

Duration: 94Min

Country: USA, Germany

Once a pop icon, then 20 years of house arrest, banned from performing – and finally an unexpected comeback.
Green Is The New Red

Green Is The New Red

Films International Screenings
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Director: Anna Recalde Miranda

Year: 2024

Duration: 105Min

Country: France, Italy, Paraguay, Sweden

A genealogy of our present ecological disaster.
HOLLYWOODGATE

HOLLYWOODGATE

Best of the Festival Films
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Director: Ibrahim Nash’at

Year: 2023

Duration: 91Min

Country: Germany, USA

Unprecedented and audacious, HOLLYWOODGATE is the riveting result of the year director Ibrahim Nash’at spent with the Taliban in the wake of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Inside Kaboul

Inside Kaboul

Competition Films Young vision
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Director: Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz

Year: 2023

Duration: 30Min

Country: France

After the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, Raha and Marwa, two young Afghan women, record voice notes to tell the story of their daily lives.
Johatsu - Into Thin Air

Johatsu – Into Thin Air

Best of the Festival Films
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Director: Andreas Hartmann & Arata Mori

Year: 2024

Duration: 86Min

Country: Germany, Japan

“Although the term “Johatsu” is widespread in Japan, it is regarded as taboo that nobody wants to talk about.” Arata Mori
KIX

KIX

Competition Films International
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Director: Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész

Year: 2024

Duration: 92Min

Country: Hungary, France, Croatia

KIX is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi’s journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest…
L'Amazone

L’Amazone

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Emilie Maréchal & Camille Meynard

Year: 2024

Duration: 72Min

Country: Belgium, France

L’AMAZONE is an intimate portrait of a mother and daughter in a family where women have been affected by breast cancer for four generations.
Le garçon

Le garçon

Competition Films International
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Director: Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault

Year: 2024

Duration: 97Min

Country: France

It all starts with photos of a family. A family we don’t know, but which we feel we do know. At the center: this boy. Who is he? What is his story?
Le rêve des cigognes

Le rêve des cigognes

Belgian Special Films
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Director: Elodie Lélu

Year: 2024

Duration: 60Min

Country: Belgium

Based on my own experience, which I extend through that of other infertile people, I show how Medically Assisted Reproduction changes our relationship with the body and the imaginary.
Letter to Theo

Letter to Theo

Belgian Special Films
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Director: Elodie Lélu

Year: 2018

Duration: 63Min

Country: Belgium

The filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died on 24 January 2012, hit by a motorbike on the set of his latest film.
Letters to … and back

Letters to … and back

Films International Screenings
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Director: Hristo Dimitrov-Hindo

Year: 2024

Duration: 60Min

Country: Bulgaria

70 years of love in 437 letters and 30 pictures painted on their envelopes.
Lie to me

Lie to me

Films International Screenings
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Director: Bår Tyrmi

Year: 2024

Duration: 94Min

Country: Norway

‘Lie to Me’ is the story of how tech nerd and blockchain expert Bjørn Bjercke overturned the OneCoin pyramid scheme – the biggest Crypto fraud in history.
Mister Engel. A Sexonomic Miracle

Mister Engel. A Sexonomic Miracle

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Peter Woditsch & Sophie Simon

Year: 2024

Duration: 65Min

Country: Belgium

During Germany’s turbulent reconstruction, Engel revolutionized the sex industry by creating a brothel that challenged societal norms and provided insight into the hitherto hidden world of female sexuality.
Monstres de Poussière

Monstres de Poussière

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Nina Marissiaux

Year: 2024

Duration: 75Min

Country: Belgium

Johnny and Goyko, once homeless, are trying to tell their story in a film.
My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts

My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts

Competition Films International
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Director: Anas Zawahri

Year: 2024

Duration: 74Min

Country: Syria

Does memory prevent the occurrence of violence?
No One Sleeps

No One Sleeps

Films International Screenings
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Director: Sam Kalantari

Year: 2024

Duration: 80Min

Country: Iran

Negar SamakNejad, a 46-year-old university lecturer, intends to become the first Iranian woman to continuously climb Mount Damavand from all four fronts to the peak.
Ocean Souls

Ocean Souls

Competition Films Young vision
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Director: Philip Hamilton

Year: 2020

Duration: 58Min

Country: United Kingdom

Ocean Souls unites over 100 filmmakers and 25 of the world’s top scientists and experts in a truly unprecedented collaboration.
On Melting Snow

On Melting Snow

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Mojtaba Bahadori

Year: 2024

Duration: 73Min

Country: Belgium

Each landscape reflects a memory of our planet, memories that have been cruelly divided by time and man-made political borders.
Phantoms from the Depths

Phantoms from the Depths

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Annick Ghijzelings

Year: 2024

Duration: 110Min

Country: Belgium, France, Martinique

In Martinique, centuries of colonisation and migration have intermingled peoples from the four corners of the globe, making each one the son of all.
Rebels Don't Know Age

Rebels Don’t Know Age

Competition Films Young vision
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Director: Gabriel Courty-Villanua

Year: 2024

Duration: 53Min

Country: Belgium, France

Naçiye Van der Straeten, a 78-year-old Belgian woman, is fighting Parkinson’s disease by boxing in Antalya, Turkey.
Retro Therapy

Retro Therapy

Belgian Special Films
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Director: Elodie Lélu

Year: 2024

Duration: 87Min

Country: Belgium, Canada, France

Manon, a shy 16-year-old girl is forced to live with her insufferable grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist who has Alzheimer’s.
Road To Nowhere

Road To Nowhere

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Caroline D'hondt

Year: 2024

Duration: 82Min

Country: Belgium

Somewhere in the Great Canadian North, at the edge of the world, there exists a fast-growing city which has the particularity of welcoming people from everywhere.
Scars of a Putsch

Scars of a Putsch

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Nathalie Borgers

Year: 2024

Duration: 100Min

Country: Belgium, Austria

“Scars of a Putsch” is the director’s personal quest to discover what is hidden behind the scars on the body of her husband Abidin, a Turkish revolutionary of the 70s.
Sheep

Sheep

Competition Young vision
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Director: Ruud De Keyser

Year: 2024

Duration: 48Min

Country: Belgium

SHEEP witnesses the survival efforts of three shepherds to protect their sheep in an age-old conflict between the wild and the tamed.
Sudan, Remember Us

Sudan, Remember Us

Competition Films International
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Director: Hind Meddeb

Year: 2024

Duration: 76Min

Country: France, Tunisia, Qatar

They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words.
The Anchor

The Anchor

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Jen Debauche

Year: 2024

Duration: 61Min

Country: Belgium

“The Anchor” plunges into the abyss of the human mind through a cinematic odyssey, combining archive testimonies and a polar expedition.
The Best Short Films of All Festivals #1

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #1

Competition Films Young vision
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WILDFLOWER by Carina Pierro Corso, LA FENÊTRE by Lucas Ortiz Estefanell, DON BENJAMÍN by Iván Zahínos

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2

Competition Films Young vision
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April 3 / 18:00

The Fishing Boats of Kayar by Álvaro Hernández Blanco

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After 15 years in Spain, Thimbo returns to his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by sensations of nostalgia and uprooting. He also grapples with the influence he exerts on the local youth, who see him as a role model ...

The Forbidden Call: Women Priests

The Forbidden Call: Women Priests

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Marie Mandy

Year: 2024

Duration: 79Min

Country: Belgium

From their clandestine ordinations on a boat on the Danube, Catholic women priests are challenging the Vatican to dismantle the sexism that causes so much suffering.
The Friendship Bench

The Friendship Bench

Competition Films International
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Director: Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt

Year: 2024

Duration: 76Min

Country: United States

When community loses hope, grandmothers take action.
The Jacket

The Jacket

Belgian Special Films

Director: Mathijs Poppe

Year: 2024

Duration: 71Min

Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Lebanon

The Jacket is a portrait of Jamal Hindawi, a Palestinian man who lives in exile with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon
The Man I Left Behind

The Man I Left Behind

Films International Screenings
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Director: Larry Towell, Matthieu Rytz, Hubert Hayaud

Year: 2024

Duration: 83Min

Country: Canada

Larry Towell’s business card reads: ‘Human Being’. For the past 40 years, the celebrated Magnum photographer—one of the greatest war photographers in the world—has chronicled humankind’s deepest struggles.
The New Man

The New Man

Belgian Competition Films
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Director: Carlos Yuri Ceuninck

Year: 2023

Duration: 64Min

Country: Belgium, Cabo Verde

QUIRINO, 77, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village in Cabo Verde, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains.
The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5

The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5

Competition Films Young vision
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Director: Elisa Jadot

Year: 2024

Duration: 80Min

Country: France

66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms
THE UNFIXING

THE UNFIXING

Competition Films International
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Director: Nicole Betancourt

Year: 2024

Duration: 86Min

Country: USA, ESP

The film presents a richly personal visual diary, capturing the intimate moments of Bentacourt’s personal struggles with a debilitating illness and the rippling effects on her family…
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other

Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other

Competition Films International
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Director: Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet

Year: 2024

Duration: 100Min

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, Denmark

Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz, aged 75 and 84, are still very much in love.
When Harmattan Blows

When Harmattan Blows

Competition Films International
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Director: Edyta Wroblewska

Year: 2024

Duration: 80Min

Country: Poland

Charismatic and self-assured, Barbara’s strength falters when the harmattan winds blow, stirring up haunting memories of her past.
Yintah

Yintah

Competition Films International
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Director: Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano

Year: 2024

Duration: 110Min

Country: Canada

YINTAH means “land” in the original language of the First Nations in Canada.

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