24 Mar Emergence Program – Day 1 CC Bruegel 24 Mar / 17:00 Tickets 17:00 59, rue des Bayards – Margot Therer… Read more » Close the film review 26 Mar Emergence Program – Day 3 CC Bruegel 26 Mar / 17:00 Tickets 17h00 La Neige aux Pieds – Soleysa Taleb… Read more » Close the film review 28 Mar A Song For My Land Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta /2024 /95 Min /Argentina, Germany, Colombia Flagey 28 Mar / 19:30 Tickets Can a rural school music teacher change the world? Close the film review 29 Mar The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5 Elisa Jadot /2024 /80 Min /France Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 16:20 Tickets 66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms Close the film review Canta Angola Ariel de Bigault /2020 /59 Min /France, Portugal, Angola Civa 29 Mar / 18:30 Tickets For forty years, Angola was plagued by devastating armed conflicts that ended in 2002. Close the film review On Melting Snow Mojtaba Bahadori /2024 /73 Min /Belgium Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 18:30 Tickets Each landscape reflects a memory of our planet, memories that have been cruelly divided by time and man-made political borders. Close the film review The Best Short Films of All Festivals #1 Mojtaba Bahadori /2024 /73 Min /Belgium Civa 29 Mar / 17:00 Tickets WILDFLOWER by Carina Pierro Corso Synopsis: A poetic… Read more » Close the film review L’Amazone Emilie Maréchal & Camille Meynard /2024 /72 Min /Belgium, France Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 16:00 Tickets 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. Close the film review KIX Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész /2024 /92 Min /Hungary, France, Croatia Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 20:15 Tickets KIX is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi’s journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest… Close the film review Le garçon Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 20:30 Tickets 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? Close the film review Emergence Program – Second Screenings #1 Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France Vendôme 2 29 Mar / 14:20 Tickets Frappe à ma porte – Louise Toussaint Synopsis… Read more » Close the film review Emergence Program – Second Screenings #2 Zabou Breitman & Florent Vassault /2024 /97 Min /France Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 14:00 Tickets Brussels Close-Up – Ilja Sirčenko Synopsis Brussels Close-Up… Read more » Close the film review The Friendship Bench Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt /2024 /76 Min /United States Vendôme 4 29 Mar / 18:15 Tickets When community loses hope, grandmothers take action. Close the film review Letters to … and back Hristo Dimitrov-Hindo /2024 /60 Min /Bulgaria Civa 29 Mar / 20:30 Tickets 70 years of love in 437 letters and 30 pictures painted on their envelopes. Close the film review 30 Mar Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp Carmen Chaplin /2024 /90 Min /UK, France, Spain, Netherlands Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 16:45 Tickets A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon. Close the film review Letter to Theo Elodie Lélu /2018 /63 Min /Belgium Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 13:45 Tickets The filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died on 24 January 2012, hit by a motorbike on the set of his latest film. Close the film review Phantoms from the Depths Annick Ghijzelings /2024 /110 Min /Belgium, France, Martinique Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 14:00 Tickets In Martinique, centuries of colonisation and migration have intermingled peoples from the four corners of the globe, making each one the son of all. Close the film review Evelyne Forever Hélène Bares /2024 /67 Min /France Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 17:20 Tickets 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. Close the film review Anima Josefien van Kooten & Anna Witte /2024 /27 Min /The Netherlands Civa 30 Mar / 18:00 Tickets In the port of Rotterdam, seafarers stay on ships in transit for months, only connected to the outside world via their telephone. Close the film review Mister Engel. A Sexonomic Miracle Peter Woditsch & Sophie Simon /2024 /65 Min /Belgium Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 19:15 Tickets 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. Close the film review Glass, My Unfulfilled Life Rogier Kappers /2023 /94 Min /Netherlands Civa 30 Mar / 19:30 Tickets A glorious coming-of-old-age docu-comedy! Close the film review Le rêve des cigognes Elodie Lélu /2024 /60 Min /Belgium Vendôme 4 30 Mar / 15:45 Tickets 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. Close the film review Chaplin | Spirit Of The Tramp Carmen Chaplin /2024 /90 Min /UK, France, Spain, Netherlands Vendôme 2 30 Mar / 16:45 Tickets A family’s journey to the roots of the world’s first Hollywood icon. Close the film review 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. Close the film review 31 Mar The Forbidden Call: Women Priests Marie Mandy /2024 /79 Min /Belgium Vendôme 4 31 Mar / 19:00 Tickets 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. Close the film review Emergence Program – Second Screenings #3 Marie Mandy /2024 /79 Min /Belgium Civa 31 Mar / 17:30 Tickets Do you hear the wind in the pine… Read more » Close the film review No One Sleeps Sam Kalantari /2024 /80 Min /Iran Civa 31 Mar / 20:00 Tickets 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. Close the film review Monstres de Poussière Nina Marissiaux /2024 /75 Min /Belgium Vendôme 2 31 Mar / 19:15 Tickets Johnny and Goyko, once homeless, are trying to tell their story in a film. Close the film review 01 Apr Yintah Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano /2024 /110 Min /Canada Civa 01 Apr / 20:00 Tickets YINTAH means “land” in the original language of the First Nations in Canada. Close the film review Retro Therapy Elodie Lélu /2024 /87 Min /Belgium, Canada, France Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 21:10 Tickets Manon, a shy 16-year-old girl is forced to live with her insufferable grandmother Yvonne, a former feminist activist who has Alzheimer’s. Close the film review The Jacket Mathijs Poppe /2024 /71 Min /Belgium, Netherlands, France, Lebanon Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 20:45 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 Close the film review The Social Trap: 5 Women VS The Big 5 Elisa Jadot /2024 /80 Min /France Civa 01 Apr / 18:00 Tickets 66% of adolescents connected to their smartphones for more than 5 hours a day, are more likely to express suicidal symptoms Close the film review Johatsu – Into Thin Air Andreas Hartmann & Arata Mori /2024 /86 Min /Germany, Japan Vendôme 4 01 Apr / 19:10 Tickets “Although the term “Johatsu” is widespread in Japan, it is regarded as taboo that nobody wants to talk about.” Arata Mori Close the film review The Anchor Jen Debauche /2024 /61 Min /Belgium Vendôme 2 01 Apr / 19:00 Tickets “The Anchor” plunges into the abyss of the human mind through a cinematic odyssey, combining archive testimonies and a polar expedition. Close the film review 02 Apr The Man I Left Behind Larry Towell, Matthieu Rytz, Hubert Hayaud /2024 /83 Min /Canada Vendôme 4 02 Apr / 20:50 Tickets 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. Close the film review Rebels Don’t Know Age Gabriel Courty-Villanua /2024 /53 Min /Belgium, France Vendôme 2 02 Apr / 19:00 Tickets Naçiye Van der Straeten, a 78-year-old Belgian woman, is fighting Parkinson’s disease by boxing in Antalya, Turkey. Close the film review THE UNFIXING Nicole Betancourt /2024 /86 Min /USA, ESP Vendôme 2 02 Apr / 20:40 Tickets 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… Close the film review Sheep Ruud De Keyser /2024 /48 Min /Belgium Civa 02 Apr / 18:30 Tickets SHEEP witnesses the survival efforts of three shepherds to protect their sheep in an age-old conflict between the wild and the tamed. Close the film review My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts Anas Zawahri /2024 /74 Min /Syria Vendôme 4 02 Apr / 18:45 Tickets Does memory prevent the occurrence of violence? Close the film review 03 Apr Inside Kaboul Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France Vendôme 2 03 Apr / 19:15 Tickets 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. Close the film review The Best Short Films of All Festivals #2 Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France Civa 03 Apr / 18:00 Tickets The Fishing Boats of Kayar by Álvaro Hernández… Read more » Close the film review When Harmattan Blows Edyta Wroblewska /2024 /80 Min /Poland Vendôme 4 03 Apr / 19:00 Tickets Charismatic and self-assured, Barbara’s strength falters when the harmattan winds blow, stirring up haunting memories of her past. Close the film review Dad’s Lullaby Lesia Diak /2024 /78 Min /Ukraine, Romania, Croatia Vendôme 2 03 Apr / 20:30 Tickets “What kind of love do you have for him?” Close the film review Green Is The New Red Anna Recalde Miranda /2024 /105 Min /France, Italy, Paraguay, Sweden Civa 03 Apr / 20:00 Tickets A genealogy of our present ecological disaster. Close the film review Bénédicte Violaine de Villers & Graham Riach /2024 /44 Min /Belgium Vendôme 4 03 Apr / 21:15 Tickets In the film, we see an artist whose body becomes her co-star on stage. Close the film review 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 Tickets Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz, aged 75 and 84, are still very much in love. Close the film review Inside Kaboul Caroline Gillet & Denis Walgenwitz /2023 /30 Min /France Civa 04 Apr / 18:00 Tickets 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. Close the film review Dance Me To The End Camille Ghekiere /2024 /61 Min /Belgium Vendôme 4 04 Apr / 19:10 Tickets 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. Close the film review Road To Nowhere Caroline D'hondt /2024 /82 Min /Belgium Vendôme 2 04 Apr / 19:00 Tickets 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. Close the film review Cyborg Generation Miguel Morillo Vega /2024 /63 Min /Spain Civa 04 Apr / 19:30 Tickets 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. Close the film review HOLLYWOODGATE Ibrahim Nash’at /2023 /91 Min /Germany, USA Vendôme 2 04 Apr / 21:15 Tickets 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. Close the film review 05 Apr Sudan, Remember Us Hind Meddeb /2024 /76 Min /France, Tunisia, Qatar Civa 05 Apr / 19:00 Tickets They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. Close the film review Dreams of Djenné Elisabet Gustafsson /2024 /82 Min /Sweden Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 18:45 Tickets 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. Close the film review The New Man Carlos Yuri Ceuninck /2023 /64 Min /Belgium, Cabo Verde Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 14:00 Tickets 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. Close the film review Scars of a Putsch Nathalie Borgers /2024 /100 Min /Belgium, Austria Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 16:10 Tickets “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. Close the film review Lie to me Bår Tyrmi /2024 /94 Min /Norway Vendôme 2 05 Apr / 21:00 Tickets ‘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. Close the film review Ocean Souls Philip Hamilton /2020 /58 Min /United Kingdom Civa 05 Apr / 16:00 Tickets Ocean Souls unites over 100 filmmakers and 25 of the world’s top scientists and experts in a truly unprecedented collaboration. Close the film review 06 Apr Googoosh – Made of Fire Niloufar Taghizadeh /2024 /94 Min /USA, Germany Flagey 06 Apr / 18:00 Tickets Once a pop icon, then 20 years of house arrest, banned from performing – and finally an unexpected comeback. Close the film review
