In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Jelle and Sofie, two filmmakers with a decadent love relationship, decide to film themselves during a trip to Greece. T…
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
1.500 deer remain in a huge farm built in the depths of a Hungarian forest. This documentary takes the pulse of the dyn…
A specific geographical point, a house on a street in Belgium, is the starting point to rescue memories and reflections…
Beautiful and Disturbing at the same time, the film rescues through cinema "The invisible mother", a photographic pract…
A curious introspective look at the history of the pig, which, in the hands of director Jan Vromman, is the story of th…
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