17 year old Jasper lives in a very grey, small town. In his family, he cannot be himself. Jasper's dad is a singer, named Lukkie Luk. All the attention in the family goes to his career. Jasper searches a way to handle this and is faced with the typical questions in the life of an adolescent. Questions that will not be answered when he stays in his own routine.
A lonesome woodcutter living a peaceful life in the woods. Although something seems to be a little off. A strange obsession seems to control his everyday life.
A restless young man roves in the gay hotspots of a metropolis. Anonymous places dressed in mirrors, intense colors and kitschy decors are the landscape for this stranger in search of comfort, connection and himself.
The story is about a boy who is bouncing back and forth between different stages of life, but it is also a story between man and child.
A budding relationship between two young pallbearers results in a confrontation with their fear of vulnerability.
Lilly, a 40-year old politician who fights against immigration, returns to the family house to take care of her elderly mother Hanna who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. During her stay, she discovers a hidden side of her mother’s early history.
A smouldering memory puts a young bride somewhere between present and past.
The lives and interactions of four neighbours in an apartment building are seen simultaneously in four different rooms. Flatlife is an animated film created by Jonas Geirnaert in 2004 was chosen for the competition of short films at Cannes in 2004.
Sliding between hope, frustration and grief, she has begun neurotic studies and experiments due to the passage of time. These studies are still her only holdout and hopes to regain what once was...
A meeting between two strangers sparks the desire to understand each other through the medium of cinema. They both simultaneously start recording their surroundings on camera and crafting the resulting footage. They, Elettra from Italy and Hazem from Gaza, become the subjects of this film that documents their first moments together. It depicts a multi-faceted reality in which North and South confront each other in a discussion on rights and inequalities, a reality in which we witness a migration towards one another, while capturing an intimate way of making a film together.
Set in the intimacy of the "old little house" in the working-class neighborhood of Brussels, les Marolles, Rue Haute 116/118 captures the relationship between people and their surrounding space, how these two elements interact and ultimately shape each other.
"Ours is a Country of Words" takes place in Shatila, a refugee camp built in Lebanon when thousands of Palestinians fled their country in 1948. The story begins at an unknown moment in the future, when the dream of the Palestinian refugees to go back to Palestine becomes reality. The film balances on the thin line between fiction and documentary, between dream and reality. Families are preparing for their fictional return, while it slowly becomes clear that this dream is far removed from their daily life in the camp. Through the words they use as actors to talk about the dream of returning to their homeland, we can understand more deeply what it means to them to live in exile.
The pink creatures' society lives peacefully at the top of a tower, under an unwritten decree: "wait your turn in the line to the top". But everything is suddenly called into question when one citizen doesn't respect this way of life.
A French girl has just moved to a country called Dutchgaria, but she is struggling with the strange language and trying to understand the locals.
In a quiet and snowy Chechen village, mother tells her daughter about the return of Zara – their relative, who left this place 20 years ago. Outside, the whole world is hidden in a thick white fog. For both women, the upcoming meeting is a bright event in their dull daily life that they are very much looking forward to.
Blossoming Voices is a poetic documentary portrait about Villa Voortman, a meeting place in Belgium for people with a dual diagnosis. The film follows regular visitors Edith, Henk and Jan-Willem, giving them time and space to express their voice, pace and rhythm, as music is a cornerstone of the center's philosophy. In the shadow of a beautiful tree, music of many roots and branches arises from the villa.
Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.
Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually we are drawn into her dream, which unfolds into a cosmic journey through the meadows of Erpe-Mere.
