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0.2 Milligrams of Gold

0,2 miligramas de ouro
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Brazil,
Portugal,
Hungary
2021
24 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
French,
English
Subtitles: 
English

8,500 kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho only looks at the inaccessible and menacing forest from the outside. Its Belgian counter piece, however, is easy to explore. Here, everything is laid out by people, neatly ordered and reduced to the essentials. A geologist, a gold miner and an astronomer provide insights for a philosophical exploration of the origin of existence and the future of our planet.

Kim Busch

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Director
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Script
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Cinematographer
Leo Foulet
Editor
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Producer
Frederik Nicolai
Co-Producer
André Mielnik, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Sound
Sébastien Lheureux
Score
Sébastien Lheureux
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A Life Like Any Other

Une vie comme une autre
Faustine Cros
International Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Belgium,
France
2022
68 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Over many years, the director’s father filmed his family life almost obsessively. His daughter’s birth, his son’s first steps, and always Valérie, the young mother. An impressive fund of material which their now grown-up daughter Faustine appropriates to tell quite a different story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother and its demands take away her freedom step by step.

In the here and now, the director observes her parents in the big empty house in the country: her hyperactive father who is constantly tinkering with something, and her chain-smoking mother who sits at the kitchen table and whose sharp mind can only be surmised from her eyes. What happened? What happened to the energetic and independent young make-up artist? The one who admires witches and wants to take a trip around the world. The one who could easily earn her own living but still gives up her job. “The gaze is important”, the now 60-year-old Valérie tells her daughter once while applying make-up. Yes, the gaze is important. And with her film, director Faustine Cros counters the gaze directed at her mother over all those years with a new narrative.
Marie Kloos

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Director
Faustine Cros
Cinematographer
Faustine Cros, Jean-Louis Cros
Editor
Faustine Cros, Cédric Zoenen
Producer
Julie Freres, Camille Laemlé
Co-Producer
Sound Image Culture, Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles (CBA), RTBF
Sound
Faustine Cros
Score
Ferdinand Cros
World Sales
Anna Berthollet
Winner of: Prize of the Interreligious Jury, Silver Dove (International Competition)
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Berlin – From Dawn to Dusk

In der Dämmerstunde – Berlin
Annik Leroy
Homage Annik Leroy 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
FRG
1981
67 minutes
French,
German
Subtitles: 
English

Long walks through almost deserted cityscapes which even in the late 1970s still bear the distinct scars of the Second World War: a Belgian filmmaker encounters West Berlin. She tries to re-adjust in this terrain saturated with European history and films this transformation in the first person singular. The images of twilight captured on grainy 16mm footage make Berlin look like a city that lies deep in the East, even though it sees itself as a Western city. But Annik Leroy mistrusts the mirror images: they don’t help if you want to see things more clearly.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Annik Leroy
Script
Annik Leroy
Cinematographer
Annik Leroy
Editor
Eva Houdova, Daniel De Valck
Producer
Gamma Films, ZDF, Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles (CBA)
Sound
Alain Marchal
Kids DOK 2020
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Bertha and the Wolfram
Tijs Torfs
Bertha is determined to tame the wild wolves in her life. She counters her disease, which limits her in her daily life, with brushes, colour palettes and crayons.
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Bertha and the Wolfram

Bertha en de wolfram
Tijs Torfs
Kids DOK 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium
2020
15 minutes
Dutch
Subtitles: 
German

Bertha loves to draw. She needs help in her daily life for she has a rare disease that impairs her vision. But Bertha refuses to be discouraged. She has organised an exhibition together with a well-known painter. The proceeds will go to research into her disease, the so-called Wolfram syndrome. Can Bertha tame the wild wolves in her life?

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Director
Tijs Torfs
Producer
Jurgen Buedts
Kids DOK 2022
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Bgirl Badli
Charlotte Lara De Cort
Mali is 14, a b-girl who lives for breaking. She moves to her sister to the big city to attend a dance school there. The new challenges are huge.
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Bgirl Badli

Bgirl Badli
Charlotte Lara De Cort
Kids DOK 2022
Documentary Film
Belgium
2022
15 minutes
Dutch,
French

14-year-old Mali’s head is full of dancing. She is a b-girl and lives for breaking. She has just moved into a big city to live with her older sister – and to go to a new school where dancing is one of the main subjects. But can Mali handle the other dance styles? And will her body be able to stand the strain?

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Charlotte Lara De Cort
Cinematographer
Jordan Vanschel
Editor
Jasper Flikshuh, Jonas Verstraeten
Producer
Mark Daems
Sound
Neal Willaert
Sound Design
Jamie MacLean
Score
Mauro Pawlowski
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Bye Bye Tiberias

Bye Bye Tibériade
Lina Soualem
Audience Competition 2023
Documentary Film
France,
Palestine,
Belgium,
Qatar
2023
82 minutes
French,
Arabic
Subtitles: 
English

The actor Hiam Abbass, who lives in France, is one of the greatest movie stars from the Middle East. She played leading roles in the award-winning films of Israeli director Eran Riklis, acted in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and recently in the U.S. hit series “Succession.” She served on the juries of the big Festivals in Cannes and Berlin, presented her own directing debut in Venice. But she is also a mother, daughter and sister in a large Palestinian family full of resourceful women. In this real role she steps in front of the camera in her daughter Lina Soualem’s work and travels back to her hometown of Deir Hanna in northern Israel – an Arab village in the Jewish state.

“Don’t open the gate to past sorrows,” the director quotes a kind of family dogma. It refers, among other things, to the family’s traumatic expulsion from Tiberias, the city on the Sea of Galilee, in the 1948 Palestine War. But with her confrontation of the family history, Soualem also opens gates to past joys and allegedly discarded identities. Between home videos, historical archive footage, photos and letters, Abbass is a touching and approachable screen presence as she returns to her roots. The long shadow of her origins also falls on a woman of the world.

Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

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Director
Lina Soualem
Script
Lina Soualem, Nadine Naous, Gladys Joujou
Cinematographer
Frida Marzouk
Editor
Gladys Joujou
Producer
Jean-Marie Nizan
Co-Producer
Guillaume Malandrin, Ossama Bawardi
Sound
Ludovic Escallier, Lina Soualem
Sound Design
Julie Tribout, Benoit Biral, Rémi Durel
Score
Amine Bouhafa
World Sales
Anna Berthollet
Commissioning Editor
Rasha Salti
Homage Annik Leroy 2020
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Cell 719
Annik Leroy
A 15-minute audiovisual composition based on a text written in prison by Ulrike Meinhof: “Letter from a prisoner in the isolation wing” (1972/73).
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Cell 719

Cellule 719
Annik Leroy
Homage Annik Leroy 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium
2015
15 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

It could be called a portrait or a composition with text and sound. Ulrike Meinhof’s “Letter from a prisoner in the isolation wing”, written in prison in 1972/73, a document of detention in thought cascades, lends structure and weight to fifteen minutes of film. The apparently black background is dimly animated at intervals, hinting at a nocturnal outside or an area near water. This attempt to communicate the sensory deprivation resulting from isolation attempts what’s actually impossible, pushing towards abstraction, harsh, brutal, dry. Any narrative “grease” is discarded. There is no space at all, hence not for a narrative, either.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Annik Leroy
Editor
Julie Morel
Producer
Annik Leroy
Sound
Marie Vermeiren
International Competition 2020
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Considering the Ends
Elsa Maury
Shepherdess Nathalie learns what it means to kill with one’s own hands. Her process of development turns out to be a holistic learning experience: about responsibility, care and knives.
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Considering the Ends

Nous la mangerons, c’est la moindre des choses
Elsa Maury
International Competition 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
France
2020
67 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English, German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing

The vultures are circling over the Cevennes, the south-eastern part of the French Massif Central. They are part of the holistic cycle of becoming and passing away which shepherdess Nathalie seeks to come closer to. Because the vultures are gnawing at the remains of her beloved animals. She considers herself responsible not only for their lives, but also for their death. Elsa Maury’s film is an unequivocal testimony to what it means to wield the fatal knife oneself.

The sounds made by a ewe when a lamb is born seem almost human. And when a little later the newborn turns out to be unwilling to live it seems as if one could detect pain in the mother’s eyes. The shepherdess Nathalie’s empathic look at her flock was transferred directly to the viewer. Each animal here has its own name, each has a biography that Nathalie knows by heart. And it’s ultimately up to her to finally decide when the end of a sheep is near. In diary-like sequences we learn about her feelings, take part in a difficult process of development which results in new self-confidence, perhaps even new wisdom. Elsa Maury shows a perennial school of killing and death. She leaves the events uncommented, but achieves an intensity through images and editing that stays with us for a long time.
Carolin Weidner

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Director
Elsa Maury
Cinematographer
Christian Tessier, Martin Flament, Elsa Maury
Editor
Geoffroy Cernaix, Pauline Piris-Nury
Producer
Cyril Bibas
Co-Producer
Luc Reder, Olivier Burlet, Javier Packer-Comyn
Sound
Marc Siffert, Loïc Villiot, Galaad Germa, Willy Boutet, Elsa Maury
World Sales
Philippe Cotte
Narrator
Nathalie Savalois
Nominated for: Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize
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Cyclepaths

Cyclepaths
Anton Cla
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Belgium
2023
12 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

On the outskirts of the city, the new modern buildings are silent and the motorway bridge drones. Birds are circling in the sky, a young man, concealed by his hoodie, is riding his e-scooter along a park path. The only irritating element is the rifle over his shoulder.

Anton Cla’s film depicts a mood of high alert, while the disaster has in fact already happened. Unexplainable scenes that could not be more disconcerting and grow increasingly drastic unfold calmly. The screaming silence is decisively enhanced by the imperceptibly accumulating mixed drone of the daily sounds of a mechanised world: motorway, tramway, clicking indicators, pulsating emergency signals. What the soundscape adamantly refuses to deliver is a loud discharge that would release the tension. The suburban landscape is steeped in a red theatrical warning light, blurs restrict the view. The 3D computer design masks neither the artificiality nor the computer-based deformations of the images of a normality that has become a combat zone – the machine matrix seems to rule already.

André Eckardt

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Director
Anton Cla
Producer
Anton Cla
Sound
Milan Van Doren
Animation
Anton Cla
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Kids DOK 2020
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Dad Magnet
Daphne van den Blink
When Kwinten’s Dad has to go on a naval mission for three months it’s hard. Kwinten plays in nature, counts the days and tries to get used to missing him.
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Dad Magnet

Papamagneet
Daphne van den Blink
Kids DOK 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium
2020
17 minutes
Dutch
Subtitles: 
German

Kwinten is proud of his Dad who is the commander of a naval ship. But a new mission takes his Dad to sea again for three months. Kwinten waits for postcards and counts the days. His best friend now lives in another town, but fortunately comes to visit. Coping with missing his father isn’t easy for Kwinten. Seeing him again is all the more wonderful, though.

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Director
Daphne van den Blink
Cinematographer
Jonathan Wannyn
Editor
Febe Simoens
Producer
Magalie Dierick, Emmy Oost
Sound
Kwinten Van Laethem, Gedeon Depauw
Score
Stijn Dickel
Funder
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
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Days of Fishing

Jours de pêche
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Belgium
2021
16 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Somewhere on an ocean the crew of a fish trawler go about their work day and night. Every step must be perfect, every movement automatically leads to the next. Heavy chains have to be secured, nets reeled in, fish swiftly gutted and packed with ice into large boxes. A cigarette is always dangling from the lips and hopefully there’s always something left in the jar of chocolate cream. The camera moves in the same rolling beat as the ship in the waves.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Cinematographer
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Editor
Joséphine Doublet
Producer
Vincent Canart
Sound
Lucien Lepoutre, Benjamin Grinand
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Downstream to Kinshasa

En route pour le milliard
Dieudo Hamadi
International Competition 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
DR Congo,
France
2020
90 minutes
Lingala,
Swahili
Subtitles: 
English

In the summer of 2000 Ugandan and Rwandan troops fought a devastating battle in Kisangani. The International Court of Justice sentenced Uganda to pay one billion U.S. dollars to the civilian victims. After almost twenty years of waiting in vain, some of them set out for Kinshasa to enforce their legal claim. The physical and theatrical power of their mission both drives and radiates from this film.

Dieudo Hamadi has given the women and men he is about to follow down the Congo a visually confident and assured exposition. Gathered on an inky black stage, they look at us and sing: of blood spilled, of money forgotten. Then the march of the maimed sets itself in motion, on crutches, with prostheses, past the nearby pits of the dead and out into the country. Every metre covered is an act of rebellion. When the procession of beggars, who rightly won’t tolerate this designation, finally climbs the stairs of the National Parliament, iconic scenes of Soviet revolutionary cinema seem to shine through. But the crowd that is moving here is different. Its individual bodies push back with all their weight both against the casual shrug of the shoulders of political routine and the carelessly rounded calculations of loss and equivalent value of the arithmetic of war.
Sylvia Görke

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Director
Dieudo Hamadi
Cinematographer
Dieudo Hamadi
Editor
Hélène Ballis, Catherine Catella
Producer
Quentin Laurent, Frédéric Féraud, Dieudo Hamadi
Co-Producer
Aurelien Bodinaux
Sound
Sylvain Aketi, Dieudo Hamadi
Score
Les Zombies de Kisangani
World Sales
Stephan Riguet
Winner of: Golden Dove (International Competition), Prize of the Interreligious Jury
Extended Reality 2023
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Draw for Change: We Exist, We Resist
Mariana Cadenas Sangronis
Maremoto is a young Mexican illustrator and visual creator, but first and foremost a sensible artist. We follow her daily fight against sexism, fear and anxiety.
2023
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Draw for Change: We Exist, We Resist

Draw for Change: Existimos, resistimos
Mariana Cadenas Sangronis
Extended Reality 2023
XR
Belgium
2023
15 minutes
Spanish,
English,
French,
Dutch

Femicides are daily in Mexico. We follow Maremoto in her fight against sexism, fear and anxiety. She is an illustrator and visual creator, but first and foremost a sensible artist. This VR experience is inspired by her art, her search for identity, her self-empowerment, her way of making herself and others aware of their own bodies and of finding allies in the struggle for change.

Lars Rummel

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Concept
Mariana Cadenas Sangronis
Producer
Evelien De Graef, Hanne Phlypo, Michel Denis, Kris De Boeck, Patrick Vandenbroeck
Production Company
Clin d’oeil films, Castar, Benuts Flanders
Animation
Camille Chailloux, Eline Mollet, Daaf Wouters
VR Developer
Nicolas Corson, Jonathan Massin, Milan Gerard, Pierre Lacasse
VFX Artist
Boris Gortz, Manon Martin
Sound Design
Walter Fiorini
Key Collaborator
Mar Maremoto
Director
Mariana Cadenas Sangronis
Cinematographer
Jimi Abidts
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Drijf

Drijf
Levi Stoops
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Belgium
2023
15 minutes
Dutch
Subtitles: 
English

She and him, naked on the holiday seas in the bright sun. It may sound idyllic, but it is hell for Aurora and Jeremy. In search of funny dolphins, the two are paddling without orientation in the limitless expanse of water, no land in sight. Complete with dangers from above and below in the shape of heat and sharks. And at the centre of events is a near-defunct relationship. The roles are well-practised and grating, uptight lust is satisfied only solo.

Instead of roaring waves, it is above all the relentless silence of the sea surrounding them that provides the tension of the film. It is occasionally released in brilliant miniatures, for example a witty argument, or clumsy physical comedy. Another time, we are shocked by action-filled horror moments triggering absurd chain reactions. Whether it is the glaring light on the brutally calm water and the clueless couple, the visual fumes of decay one can almost smell, or a super dynamic dive – Levi Stoops’ direction is magnificent and timed with utmost precision.

André Eckardt

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Director
Levi Stoops
Script
Levi Stoops
Cinematographer
Camiel Hermans, Sarah Menheere, Karolien Raeymaekers, Levi Stoops
Editor
Levi Stoops
Producer
Annemie Degryse
Sound
Paulo Rietjens, Arnout Colaert
Sound Design
Paulo Rietjens
Score
Mick Lemaire
Animation
Camiel Hermans, Sarah Menheere, Karolien Raeymaekers, Levi Stoops
World Sales
Annabel Sebag
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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Extended Presences

Cinzas e nuvens
Margaux Dauby
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Portugal,
Belgium
2023
12 minutes
Portuguese (Portugal)
Subtitles: 
English, German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing

The gaze is firmly fixed on the horizon and distant tree lines, distinguishing natural from smoke clouds. Seasonal work for Portuguese women who observe the landscape from behind the glass panes of fire lookout towers, radio always in reach to report wildfires immediately upon discovery. While the boundary of the visible blurs in the grain of the analogue film stock, Dina, Adriana, Ana Paula, Helena, Luisa, Cristina, Dulce, Lídia, Inês, Fátima, Francisca and Vera emerge as agents of anticipation, modern-day seers whose gentle but persistent peering reaches beyond the burning world. Meanwhile, their male colleagues monitor the situation on computer screens. Poetical textures of waiting and wokeness. The female vision is sharpened and has expectations from the not yet visible future.

Jan Künemund

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Director
Margaux Dauby
Cinematographer
Margaux Dauby, Afonso Marmelo
Editor
Raul Domingues
Producer
Margaux Dauby
Co-Producer
Roxanne Gaucherand
Sound
Margaux Dauby
Sound Design
Margaux Dauby, Paulo Lima, Selia Çakir
Kids DOK 2020
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Fien, Jip & Fien
Marie De Hert, Ellen Pollard
Jip sends his crush many hearts via smartphone from his holidays. But what is that thing, love? Together with his sister he is looking for answers in this sun-drenched summer.
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Fien, Jip & Fien

Fien, Jip & Fien
Marie De Hert, Ellen Pollard
Kids DOK 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium
2020
15 minutes
Dutch
Subtitles: 
German

The siblings Fien and Jip are on summer holidays. They sit laughing in a pedal boat, sunbathe giggling on a meadow, and talk about a great unknown: love. For Jip is extremely busy sending his crush many hearts via smartphone. But who can provide information about this exciting feeling? Fien thinks: “Love is like ice cream with chocolate sprinkles on top.”

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Director
Marie De Hert, Ellen Pollard
Cinematographer
Ellen Pollard
Producer
Maarten Schmidt