Rising up at night –

Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, Tongo Saa is a subtle and fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is sublimated by the beauty of Kinshasa’s nights.

96 MIN / DOC / LINGALA / ST EN FR

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Rising up at night – coproduction

by Nelson Makengo

The flats –

Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.

109 MIN / DOC / EN / ST FR

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by Alessandra Celesia

The Silent Ones

Jorick is one of five crew members of a small fishing trawler. After four days of an unsuccessful fishing campaign, he found himself faced with a difficult dilemma: return with the holds empty or to decide, against the advice of part of the crew, to go poaching in the prohibited zone.

20 MIN / SHORT FILM / FR / ST EN

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The Silent Ones

by Basile Vuillemin

This is my moment –

The story of cyclist Biniam Girmay. At the age of 17, while training in his home country Eritrea in Africa, he dreams of riding the Tour de France. Against all odds, Biniam climbs up the international rankings. But will he make it into a top team and get selected for the tour?

106 MIN / DOC / EN / ST FR NL

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by Lieven Corthouts

ALL-IN –

Ismail and Hakan, two shy young men, leave their villages, for the first time, to work at a lavish all-inclusive resort on the Turkish Riviera. A new, absurd world opens up to them. Colourful bikinis, an abundance of food and the management’s demands ensure they will never be the same again.

80 MIN / DOC / TR / ST FR

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ALL-IN – coproduction

by Volkan Üce

Burning Out –

The director followed the members of a surgical unit in a large hospital in Paris. Under stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts. Burnout has reached epidemic proportions all over Europe. Are we going to end up killing ourselves? Or can we find meaning and joy at work?

85 MIN / DOC / FR / ST EN

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Burning Out – coproduction

by Jérôme Le Maire

Cherchez la femme –

Unsung Women brings to light 30 women who contributed to change the world. Despite their achievements, their name didn’t make history, they stayed in men’s shadow. Did you know that some explorers were actually women? They speak up at last and with a witty tone, they tell us their story with the place they deserve!

4 MIN x 30 / SERIE / FR / ST EN

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by Julie Gavras

Chroma –

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman tries hard to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves ?

96 MIN / FEATURE FILM / FR / ST EN

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by Jean-Laurent Chautems

Corpus –

In Corpus, a quest for eternity, master anatomist Andreas Vesalius invites you to join him on an unusual quest. Five hundred years after his death, he wants to show you how art and science can combine to produce a profound insight into existence.

56 MIN / DOC / EN NL / ST FR

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by Jelle Janssens & Sofie Hanegreefs

En pleine mer –

En pleine Méditerranée, l’équipage de l’Ocean Viking porte secours à des exilés entassés sur des embarcations de fortune, qui fuient la Libye. Une fois sauvés et accueillis à bord, les rescapés reçoivent les premiers soins puis sont accompagnés jusqu’à un port sûr.

54 MIN / DOC / FR / ST EN

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by Muriel Cravatte

Forêt

Julien decides to go hiking with his father despite his fragility. In a deep forest, they walk together for the first time. The journey toward his father begins.

18 MIN / SHORT FILM / FR / ST EN

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by Samuel Feller

Jeunesse sauvage

Charismatic, Raphaël is the leader of a gang of young street robbers. Longing to turn his own life around, he takes care of his father and unwittingly opens himself to love.

80 MIN / FEATURE FILM / FR / ST EN

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by Frédéric Carpentier

Juste un mouvement –

In Senegal, the name of Omar Blondin Diop is associated with an unpunished state crime. In France, he has mostly gone down in history as an activist featuring in “La Chinoise” by Jean-Luc Godard. Today in Dakar, his brothers and friends remember him while the local youth play their own fate under the imperfect present of China-Africa.

110 MIN / DOC / FR / ST EN

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Juste un mouvement – coproduction

by Vincent Meessen

Kakuma: The Invisible City –

While filming his teenage friends for more than 4 years, filmmaker Lieven Corthouts unveils the true dynamics of today’s refugee camps. Can Kakuma camp really offer a future? Or is it just a waiting room, where the only option is to plan your journey to Europe?

73 MIN / DOC / EN / ST FR

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by Lieven Corthouts

Keeper –

Maxime and Mélanie, both 14 years old and barely out of childhood are in love. One day, Mélanie finds out she’s pregnant. Maxime wants to keep the baby no matter what.

90 MIN / FEATURE FILM / FR / ST EN

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by Guillaume Senez

La abadesa –

It follows Abbess, who is given the task of repopulating and Christianizing border territories.

with Blanca Romero, Daniela Brown, Carlos Cuevas.

122 MIN / LONG / ES / ST EN

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by Antonio Chavarrías

LAST MALE ON EARTH –

In March 2018, the last male northern white rhino remaining on earth died. Ever since he was the last one, armed bodyguards protected him, tourists were standing in line to take a photo with him. What is so attractive about the threat of extinction? How does this reflect on us?

72 min / DOC / VO EN / ST FR

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by Floor van der Meulen

Le chant de la fleur –

Threatened by the oil industry, the people of Sarayaku in Amazon leads a relentless struggle for survival. Inspired by an ancient shamanic song, he engages in an universal challenge: the Frontier of Life.

61 MIN / DOC / ES, QUECHUA / ST FR, EN

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by Jacques Dochamps and José Gualinga

Les révoltés –

Pavel works in the local factory. He spends his free time on the banks of the Loire with Anja, with whom he is secretly in love. Anja dreams of freedom. But when layoffs are announced at the factory, Anja is wooed by Antoine, the factory boss’s son. For the first time in his life, Pavel is no longer certain of anything.

80 MIN / FEATURE FILM / FR / ST EN

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by Simon Leclère

Mitra –

Winter 2012, committed against her will in a psychiatric hospital in Tehran, Iranian psychoanalyst Mitra Kadivar begins a correspondence by email with Jacques-Alain Miller. Summer 2017, An artistic team creates an opera inspired by these exchanges while absorbing the reality of the Montperrin psychiatric hospital.

80 MIN / DOC / FR / ST EN

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by Jorge Léon

No Man Is an Island –

Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? 2 unique adoption stories reveal the search for freedom of both the Lampedusiani and the newcomers. At the same time Lampedusa is a metaphor for the European continent that now faces the task of true integration.

72 MIN / DOC / IT, AR / ST EN

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by Tim De Keersmaecker

Passagers

Motorcycling on a deserted road, Erica and Julien, a young couple. On their way, a gas station and three lonely individuals. This encounter leads them to seek a new harmony.

12 MIN / SHORT FILM / VO FR / ST EN

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Passagers

by Samuel Feller

Song of the Sea –

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

Oscar, Nominee, Best Animated Feature Film, 2015.

93 MIN / ANIMATION / EN / ST FR

 

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by Tomm Moore

Tailor –

Tailor tells the story of Nikos, a master tailor, who doesn’t really fit in the world. His daughter has turned her back on him, his father is ill and needs money for treatment. On the verge of loosing everything, the imaginative Nikos decides to take action: since customers no longer come to his shop, then he will take his shop to them.

98 MIN / FEATURE FILM / EL / ST FR

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by Sonia Liza Kenterman

Taro Yamamoto –

We discover Japan today through the eyes of Taro Yamamoto, an atypical young Japanese senator who used to be a popular actor. The story of a rebel who goes against the flow.

65 MIN / DOC / JP / ST FR

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by Alain de Halleux

Where is Anne Frank –

In a year from today, Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend, the one that Anne devoted her entire diary to, magically comes to life at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. She believes that if she’s alive, Anne must be alive as well. She sets out on a relentless quest to find Anne.

90 MIN / ANIMATION / EN FR NL

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by Ari Folman