Programma

24 Mar

Emergence Program – Day 1

CC Bruegel 24 Mar / 17:00 Kaartjes
17:00 59, rue des Bayards – Margot Therer… Read more »

26 Mar

Emergence Program – Day 3

CC Bruegel 26 Mar / 17:00 Kaartjes
17h00 La Neige aux Pieds – Soleysa Taleb… Read more »

28 Mar

A Song For My Land

Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta /2024 /94 Min /Argentina, Germany, Colombia
Flagey 28 Mar / 19:30 Kaartjes
Can a rural school music teacher change the world?

29 Mar

The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5

Elisa Jadot /2024 /80 Min /France
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 16:20 Kaartjes
66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms.

Canta Angola

Ariel de Bigault /2020 /59 Min /France, Portugal, Angola
Civa 29 Mar / 18:30 Kaartjes
For forty years, Angola was plagued by devastating armed conflicts that ended in 2002.

On Melting Snow

Mojtaba Bahadori /2024 /73 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 18:30 Kaartjes
Each landscape reflects a memory of our planet, memories that have been cruelly divided by time and man-made political borders.

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #1

Mojtaba Bahadori /2024 /73 Min /Belgium
Civa 29 Mar / 17:00 Kaartjes
WILDFLOWER by Carina Pierro Corso Synopsis: A poetic… Read more »

Le garçon

Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 20:30 Kaartjes
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? 

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #1

Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France
Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 14:20 Kaartjes
Frappe à ma porte – Louise Toussaint Synopsis… Read more »

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #2

Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France
Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 14:00 Kaartjes
Brussels Close-Up – Ilja Sirčenko Synopsis Brussels Close-Up… Read more »

The Friendship Bench

Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt /2024 /76 Min /United States
Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 18:15 Kaartjes
When community loses hope, grandmothers take action.

Letters to … and back

Hristo Dimitrov-Hindo /2024 /60 Min /Bulgaria
Civa 29 Mar / 20:30 Kaartjes
70 years of love in 437 letters and 30 pictures painted on their envelopes.

30 Mar

Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp

Carmen Chaplin /2024 /90 Min /UK, France, Spain, Netherlands
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 16:45 Kaartjes
A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon.

Phantoms from the Depths

Annick Ghijzelings /2024 /110 Min /Belgium, France, Martinique
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 14:00 Kaartjes
In Martinique, centuries of colonisation and migration have intermingled peoples from the four corners of the globe, making each one the son of all.

Evelyne Forever

Hélène Bares /2024 /67 Min /France
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 17:20 Kaartjes
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.

Anima

Josefien van Kooten & Anna Witte /2024 /27 Min /The Netherlands
Civa 30 Mar / 18:00 Kaartjes
In the port of Rotterdam, seafarers stay on ships in transit for months, only connected to the outside world via their telephone.

Mister Engel. A Sexonomic Miracle

Peter Woditsch & Sophie Simon /2024 /65 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 19:15 Kaartjes
Tijdens de turbulente wederopbouw van Duitsland veroorzaakte hij een omwenteling in de seksindustrie: hij richtte een bordeel op dat maatschappelijke normen uitdaagde en inzicht verschafte in de tot dan toe verborgen wereld van vrouwelijke seksualiteit.

Glass, My Unfulfilled Life

Rogier Kappers /2023 /94 Min /Netherlands
Civa 30 Mar / 19:30 Kaartjes
A glorious coming-of-old-age docu-comedy!

Le rêve des cigognes

Elodie Lélu /2024 /60 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 15:45 Kaartjes
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.

Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp

Carmen Chaplin /2024 /90 Min /UK, France, Spain, Netherlands
Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 16:45 Kaartjes
A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon.

Can’t Feel Nothing

David Borenstein /2024 /81 Min /Denmark
Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 19:20
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.

31 Mar

The Forbidden Call: Women Priests

Marie Mandy /2024 /79 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 31 Mar / 19:00 Kaartjes
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.

Emergence Program – Second Screenings #3

Marie Mandy /2024 /79 Min /Belgium
Civa 31 Mar / 17:30 Kaartjes
Do you hear the wind in the pine… Read more »

No One Sleeps

Sam Kalantari /2024 /80 Min /Iran
Civa 31 Mar / 20:00 Kaartjes
Negar SamakNejad, a 46-year-old university lecturer, Negar intends to become the first Iranian woman to continuously climb Mount Damavand from all four fronts to the peak.

Monstres de Poussière

Nina Marissiaux /2024 /75 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 31 Mar / 19:15 Kaartjes
Johnny and Goyko, once homeless, are trying to tell their story in a film.

01 Apr

Yintah

Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano /2024 /125 Min /Canada
Civa 01 Apr / 20:00 Kaartjes
YINTAH means “land” in the original language of the First Nations in Canada.

Retro Therapy

Elodie Lélu /2024 /87 Min /Belgium, Canada, France
Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 21:10 Kaartjes
Manon, a shy 16-year-old girl is forced to live with her insufferable grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist who has Alzheimer’s

The Jacket

Mathijs Poppe /2024 /71 Min /België, Nederland, Frankrijk, Libanon
Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 20:45
The Jacket is een portret van Jamal Hindawi, een Palestijnse man die met zijn familie in ballingschap leeft in het vluchtelingenkamp van Shatila in Beiroet, Libanon.

The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5

Elisa Jadot /2024 /80 Min /France
Civa 01 Apr / 18:00 Kaartjes
66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms.

Johatsu – Into Thin Air

Andreas Hartmann & Arata Mori /2024 /86 Min /Germany, Japan
Vendôme 4 01 Apr / 19:10 Kaartjes
“Although the term “Johatsu” is widespread in Japan, it is regarded as taboo that nobody wants to talk about.” Arata Mori

The Anchor

Jen Debauche /2024 /61 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 19:00 Kaartjes
“The Anchor” plunges into the abyss of the human mind through a cinematic odyssey, combining archive testimonies and a polar expedition.

02 Apr

The Man I Left Behind

Larry Towell, Matthieu Rytz, Hubert Hayaud /2024 /83 Min /Canada
Vendôme 4 02 Apr / 20:50 Kaartjes
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.

Rebels Don’t Know Age

Gabriel Courty-Villanua /2024 /53 Min /Belgium, France
Vendôme 2 02 Apr / 19:00 Kaartjes
Naçiye Van der Straeten, a 78-year-old Belgian woman, is fighting Parkinson’s disease by boxing in Antalya, Turkey.

THE UNFIXING

Nicole Betancourt /2024 /86 Min /USA, Spain
Vendôme 2 02 Apr / 20:40 Kaartjes
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

My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts

Anas Zawahri /2024 /74 Min /Syria
Vendôme 4 02 Apr / 18:45 Kaartjes
Does memory prevent the occurrence of violence?

03 Apr

Inside Kaboul

Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France
Vendôme 2 03 Apr / 19:15 Kaartjes
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.

The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2

Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France
Civa 03 Apr / 18:00 Kaartjes
The Fishing Boats of Kayar by Álvaro Hernández… Read more »

When Harmattan Blows

Edyta Wroblewska /2024 /80 Min /Poland
Vendôme 4 03 Apr / 19:00 Kaartjes
Charismatic and self-assured, Barbara’s strength falters when the harmattan winds blow, stirring up haunting memories of her past.

Dad’s Lullaby

Lesia Diak /2024 /78 Min /Ukraine, Romania, Croatia
Vendôme 2 03 Apr / 20:30 Kaartjes
“What kind of love do you have for him?”

Bénédicte

Violaine de Villers & Graham Riach /2024 /44 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 03 Apr / 21:15 Kaartjes
In the film, we see an artist whose body becomes her co-star on stage.

04 Apr

Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other

Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet /2024 /100 Min /United Kingdom, United States of America, Denmark
Vendôme 4 04 Apr / 21:00 Kaartjes
Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz, aged 75 and 84, are still very much in love.

Inside Kaboul

Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France
Civa 04 Apr / 18:00 Kaartjes
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.

Les dames blanches

Camille Ghekiere /2024 /61 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 4 04 Apr / 19:10 Kaartjes
Geconfronteerd met de beperkingen van ons zorgsysteem, begint Simeon vraagtekens te plaatsen bij de rigide benadering van ouderenzorg die van hem verwacht wordt.

Road To Nowhere

Caroline D'hondt /2024 /82 Min /Belgium
Vendôme 2 04 Apr / 19:00 Kaartjes
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.

Cyborg Generation

Miguel Morillo Vega /2024 /63 Min /Spain
Civa 04 Apr / 19:30 Kaartjes
An eighteen-year-old musician decides to design a cybernetic organ and illegally implant it into his own body, thus acquiring a new sense that allows him to perceive on Earth sounds coming from outer space.

HOLLYWOODGATE

Ibrahim Nash’at /2023 /91 Min /Germany, USA
Vendôme 2 04 Apr / 21:15 Kaartjes
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.

05 Apr

Sudan, Remember Us

Hind Meddeb /2024 /76 Min /France, Tunisia, Qatar
Civa 05 Apr / 19:00 Kaartjes
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words.

The New Man

Carlos Yuri Ceuninck /2023 /64 Min /Belgium, Cabo Verde
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 14:00 Kaartjes
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.

Scars of a Putsch

Nathalie Borgers /2024 /100 Min /Belgium, Austria
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 16:10 Kaartjes
“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.

Lie to me

Bår Tyrmi /2024 /94 Min /Norway
Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 21:00 Kaartjes
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.

Ocean Souls

Philip Hamilton /2020 /58 Min /United Kingdom
Civa 05 Apr / 16:00 Kaartjes
Explore the remarkable lives of whales and dolphins.

06 Apr

Googoosh – Made of Fire

Niloufar Taghizadeh /2024 /94 Min /USA, Germany
Flagey 06 Apr / 18:00 Kaartjes
Once a pop icon, then 20 years of house arrest, banned from performing – and finally an unexpected comeback.

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