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- In 1999 Belgrade, producer Sergei and his film crew are in a disastrous situation: The film they're making is under threat; there's no money, the crew are dissatisfied, and NATO bombing is just around the corner. Then Mileta, a member of the State Security Service, comes looking for American co-producer Harvey. Anxious and worried in the midst of the bombing that's begun, Sergei hides Harvey from what he thinks is awaiting him: arrest. During the night, he thinks up a plan. He announces the start of filming on a new, patriotic film, in which the main role will be played by Harvey. The plan works--the State supports the film, and Mileta, as the State's representative, joins the crew. However, the underlying conflict between Mileta and Sergei explodes during the first screening. Mileta accuses them of being artists and not being patriots. Sergei begins to realize that he has endangered not only the film but the lives of the whole crew. A tragic death provokes a real revolt amongst the crew and some refuse to keep filming. Embittered by their 'unpatriotic' stance, Mileta arrests the protagonists and forces them to continue. Sergei, whose wife and child have now left, and who is accused of collaborating with Mileta by the rest of the crew, thinks up another plan.
- We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals. Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe that they are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will be freed from their existence. This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Inhabited by the ghosts of genocide and by the war that has raged there for over twenty years, the characters who pass through this film carry within themselves the melancholy of the eternals.
- A prominent doctor wants to commit a suicide. Two cops chose a wrong way while driving down the road. The suspected one believes that he'll never be caught. His pretty wife who works in a confectionery and she's able only to love. One boy will help them all, but he's not even born yet... Just an ordinary day.
- A French encyclopaedist tries to complete his life's work from beyond death. N is a story of an unusual obsession. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.
- Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...
- Africa Museum Palimpsest documents the evacuation and renovation of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) through the eyes of Billy Kalonji, the president of the organization of the African Diaspora in Belgium (COMRAF), which is dealing with the renovation of the Africa Museum.
- Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.
- Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.
- During the trial in Brussels of a Rwandan man involved in the 1994 genocide, the testimonies of his victims are set in parallel with the trial.
- A subjective journey into the 1956 Hungarian revolution observed through archive footage and records, a dive into the heart of the 1950s of communist Europe: productivism, lies, treason, amnesia, an era which should be remembered by now.
- How do Europeans deal with their recent dark history (the wars, dictatorships and occupations)? What traces are etched?
- As the last survivor of the Sonderkommandos, Silvano Lippi has forgotten nothing, from his arrest in the port of Piraeus up to the evening at a friend's house when he finally talked about his deportation. Then, he returns to the WWII camp.
- They were called fahavalo - enemies - because they rebelled in 1947 against French colonial authorities in Madagascar. Today, filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes takes us where the events took place, on a journey to meet the last witnesses. They tell us about their fight for independence and their long months of resistance in the jungle, armed only with spears and talismans. When Malagasy soldiers came back from WWII, they expected de Gaulle to give them independence. Instead, they were asked to return to their indigenous status and provide unfree labour in coffee plantations. They soon organized an uprising, harshly repressed by the French and their heavy weaponry. They resisted for months though, with the help of shamans and their magic formulas. Through the mesmerizing music of Régis Gizavo, the dialogue between never seen archive footage from the 40's and heartfelt testimonies makes us travel into a forgotten past. A journey into history, filmed today, along the railways, through the forest, from the Highlands to the East coast of Madagascar.
- Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?
- Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric's novel 'A Bridge over the Drina' describes a years-long conflict of the local people of the Bosnian region around the town of Visegrad. This short documentary rightly evokes associations with the novel. As a kind of annex to the novel, the film combines the scenes of the bridge with the testimony of Mevsud Poljo from the nearby village of Vlahovici, who was pulling dead bodies out of the Drina in order to identify them. Although we do not see Mevsud, we get to know how many men and how many women were among the dead, whether there were traces of violence or rape on them - And the Drina keeps flowing under the bridge.
- In the original film, Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts strives to reduce Congo masks to a portal upon which to elucidate the experience of the African people to him, a people he regards as "strange". In this reinterpretation by director Matthias De Groof, also from Belgium, the French voice and narration, the colonizer's language, leaves the stage, and thus we hear the masks speak. They look back at us and, in Lingala, the Bantu language, carry the winds and rays of one of the most renowned texts by poet Aimé Césaire: "Discourse on colonialism".
- The Story is about the making of a movie and people's relationships during that process.
- Russian businessman Micha is experiencing his country's crisis first-hand and has to fight to survive. Boldly, he goes in search of other lavish businessmen to try and convince them either to join a Businessman's Club or to lend him money.
- Sonoran Desert. Border area between Mexico and the United States. At the center of this region, bisected by the border, the Indian territory of the Tohono O'odham people. Guided by Mike, O'odham Indian, ex-military who served in El Salvador, we discover this desert area, nicknamed "the death row for migrants". Designed as a labyrinth, symbol of the Tohono O'odham people, this film is a journey of discovery of a man, a territory, a people, a culture and all discrimination against them.
- Documentary tells the tragic saga of 267 Congolese brought to the 1897 World's Fair in Belgium and put on display. Includes a visit to the exhibit site by Congolese of today to conduct a ritual ceremony of reburial for those who died there.
- Four different tales take us from Belgium to Senegal, from the North of France to Western Sahara. Every one of them leads us to encounters with dormants, men and women who evolve between two worlds, those of the living and dead.
- A documentary road-movie which follows two second-generation Moroccans - both born and bred in Belgium - as they undertake the intensive trip by car to their parents' homeland in the summer, along with some 1.5 million other Moroccans.
- In Mauritania, black political prisoners from the old colonial fortress of Oualata are known as "Le Cercle des Noyés". The film unveils frangible memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions in misfortune.
- Il aime les femmes et la bicyclette. Il aime aussi son passé. Son appartement du centre de Moscou va être privatisé. L'imminence de son déménagement se confond avec le grand chambardement qui secoue la Russie contemporaine. Comment soixante dix ans de communisme peuvent-t-ils se dissoudre dans léconomie de marché? Que reste-t-il de la révolution? Faut-il quelle survienne à nouveau? A quoi bon ? Une année durant, ces questions traversent la vie de Micha Zaitsev. Ce film est son journal de bord. He likes women, bicycles and memories of days long gone by. His downtown Moscow apartment is on the verge of being put on the market. His impending eviction merges with the great upheaval shaking contemporary Russia. Can 70 years of Communism be erased by a market economy? Has the Revolution been entirely swept aside ? Is there anything worth saving? For over one year, these questions run through Micha Zaitsevs mind. This film is his personal diary.
- One man and five women tell us about their understanding of the relationship between the Orient, cooking and hospitality.
- Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall dividing Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement's Polisario Front, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment.
- Three men are working on a construction site. The work has been interrupted by five months of imprisonment. The rain suddenly falls like the silence that precedes an eviction.