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 NL EN

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Rising up at night – coproduction

door 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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The flats – coproduction

door 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

door Basile Vuillemin

This is my moment –

Biniam Girmay, een 17-jarige veelbelovende wielrenner uit het Afrikaanse land Eritrea, droomt ervan om de Tour de France te rijden. Sinds 1903 hebben meer dan 10.000 wielrenners meegedaan, maar slechts zes van hen waren zwart. Zal Biniam nummer zeven worden?

106 MIN / DOC / EN / ST FR NL

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door 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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door 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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door 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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door 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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door Jean-Laurent Chautems

Corpus –

In CORPUS nodigt meester-anatoom Andreas Vesalius je uit om hem te vergezellen op een ongewone zoektocht. 500 jaar na zijn dood wil Vesalius je laten zien hoe de combinatie van kunst en wetenschap kan leiden tot een diepgaand existentieel onderzoek.

56 MIN / DOC / EN NL / ST FR

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door 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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En pleine mer – coproduction

door Muriel Cravatte

Forêt

Julien besluit om zijn vader, ondanks zijn kwetsbaarheid, mee te nemen op een wandeltocht. In een immens bos wandelen ze voor het eerst samen. De reis van Julien naar zijn vader begint.

18 MIN / SHORT FILM / FR / ST EN

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Forêt

door 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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door 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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door 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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door 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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door 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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door 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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door 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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door Jacques Dochamps en 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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door 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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door Jorge Léon

No Man Is an Island –

In ‘No Man is an Island’ worden de pogingen tot steun en integratie gekristalliseerd via twee unieke adoptieverhalen. De zoektocht naar geluk van zowel de eilandbewoners als de nieuwkomers nuanceert op diepgaande manier het huidige discours rond de opvang van vluchtelingen.

72 MIN / DOC / IT, AR / ST NL

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No Man Is an Island – coproduction

door Tim De Keersmaecker

Passengers

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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Passengers

door 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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door 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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door Sonia Liza Kenterman

Taro Yamamoto –

We ontdekken het hedendaagse Japan door de kritische blik van Taro Yamamoto: een jong en moedig Japans senator. Een rebel die tegen de algemene stroom durft in te gaan.

65 MIN / DOC / JP / ST FR

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door Alain de Halleux

Waar 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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door Ari Folman