A filmmaker's emotional journey from Brussels to Tangier as she reconnects with her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, uncove…
A young Iranian's harrowing escape unfolds through digital fragments in a room in England.
A film crew's quest to uncover the mystery of Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden" evolves into a journey celebrating punk phil…
Follow the wild ride of Kevin, an enigmatic mute with a severed ear, as he navigates life, institutions, and a world th…
From maturity to exploitation, a tree's journey raises profound questions about the true profit of human toil under the…
A woman explores the blurred line between human and animal through the intimate bonds four women share with their pets.
Nurses Carine and Patricia battle the second COVID wave in Liège, managing overwhelmed hospitals with limited resources.
A coroner and mourning mothers piece together the tragic tale of a young castaway and the perilous journey that claimed…
A father reminisces about cherished times with his ill, estranged daughter, hoping for a reconciliation.
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
Explore the transformative world of Thierry Van Hasselt, where art and comics converge to redefine visual storytelling …
In this riveting short documentary, a young girl's enchanting journey in her family's traveling circus, capturing the m…
In the shadow of Fukushima's nuclear disaster, a short film unveils the hauntingly deserted towns and the lives silentl…
In post-revolution Tunisia, this captivating documentary offers a poetic exploration of a nation's journey from dictato…
A night taxi's intimate confessions reveal the hidden desires and secret lives of its drivers and passengers.
Amidst the backdrop of political tension and personal rebellion, two brothers from the West Bank find themselves worlds…
A young warrior with a brush: Bertha's artistic journey becomes her weapon against a rare disease, turning adversity in…
Amidst the void left by a distant friend and an often-absent navy commander father, 12-year-old Kwinten finds solace in…
When Viv Li returns to Beijing after a decade abroad, she grapples with the realities of her dual identity, diving into…
This documentary experiences the humble yet profound world of cheesemaking in Cantal, where rural life and filmmaking i…
This short film follows four young immigrants from diverse backgrounds as they navigate love, friendship, and cultural …
Within the heart of Paris, the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information unites an unassuming community, as diverse individua…
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…
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