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The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
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Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Beaupré the Giant
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Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Though he died young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body would take more than 80 years to find its way back home.
A Bear Named Wojtek
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_A Bear Named Wojtek_ brings to life the extraordinary true story of a brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers in the Levant during World War II. This animated short follows Wojtek’s journey from the Persian desert to the front lines at the Battle of Monte Cassino, where he becomes both a soldier and a powerful symbol of resilience. As the soldiers form an unbreakable bond with Wojtek, the film e...
The Liberated Broom
Duration: 2h56
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As they learn about _Le balai Libéré_, a self-managed cleaning company from the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian university campus question their working conditions and whether self-management is still possible today.
Extinction
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Since the fall of the USSR, the question of borders and territories has been sensitive – and sometimes explosive. At the centre of _Extinction_ is Kolya, a young Moldovan who claims citizenship in Transnistria, a state not recognized by the international community. Salomé Lamas blends fiction and documentary to better capture the violent climate brewing in the region, where a Soviet mindset is ...
Bye Bye Tiberias
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Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
K-Family Affairs
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Filmmaker Arum Nam's parents are part of the proud 386 generation, which played a significant role in achieving democratization in South Korea. Eager to pass on a better world to Arum, her father became a public servant, and her mother, a feminist activist. But Arum’s perspective shifts at 18 with the Sewol ferry disaster. Also reflecting on events like #MeToo and impeachment, Arum ponders her ...
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be
Duration: 3h00Subscription access
After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.
Pacific Club
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In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense—the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of becoming part of France, but who soon came face to face wi...
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Duration: 36 minutesSubscription access
A sixty-year-old man, who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth that have shaped his life. He takes us back to his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the police, in a cold and dark place.
Drexciya
_Drexciya_ portrays an abandoned swimming pool on Riviera Beach in Accra, Ghana. During the postcolonial era, at the beginning of Kwame Nkrumah's reign, the Riviera Beach Club was a luxurious hotel that thrived until the mid-1970s. The once-Olympic pool, now in a state of advanced disrepair, is now used for other purposes by the local community.
Bicentenario
Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar's liberation campaign in Colombia, _Bicentenario_ retraces Bolívar's journey across the country, searching for his lingering ghost within the contested territory. Creatively blending oral traditions, landscape cinema, and political essay, _Bicentenario_ cinematically reveals the collision of history and myth etched into the land of what would inevitably bec...
Paris, un jour d'hiver
Guy Gilles takes his camera around Paris on a winter's day. He follows passers-by, children playing in the snow, the gaze of people behind their windows, and plays with the fog and winter's bare trees.
Bitter September
After the murder of Greek LGBTQI+ activist Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend Sophia Farantatou finds herself in the middle of an impasse, between the media storytelling and the archive footage she shot with him. Only time can give her the space to mourn and come to terms with the absence of her friend.
The Last of the Franco-Ontarians
The Last of the Franco-Ontarians
Duration: 1h56Subscription access
The testamentary cry of a minority culture in the face of the hegemonic steamroller, or, doubt is a benevolent devil. In his hometown of Fauquier, Northern Ontario, poet Pierre Albert organizes a grand celebration to mark the foretold demise of the last Franco-Ontarian. A hybrid and eclectic project reflecting its subject, this imaginary documentary is a passionate tribute to a people and their...
Bergen, Norway
"Yesterday, I found my abuser's address in my phone's memory. I don't have a name, I don't have a face, I only have his address." - Alexia Roc
Souvenir Souvenir
For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a film based on his grandfather's memories of the Algerian War. Both a denial of history and a family taboo, the questions raised by the subject remain unanswered, leaving personal and collective memory shrouded in silence. The narrative delves into unspoken shame and the search for a hidden past, ultimately resolved through the making of the film.
Journal afghan
1965: Dimitri and Christine travel across the Near and Middle East by car. They film their journey with an 8mm camera and record a travel journal on a tape recorder. _Journal afghan_ is built from these traces. By replaying them in the chaotic pattern of memory’s persistence, it offers a new experience of travel and an intimate exploration of the mechanisms of memory.
The Secret Garden
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The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
The River Schooners
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Pierre Perrault's third feature film on Île aux Coudres, Les Voitures d'eau tackles the problem of the builders and navigators of wooden schooners, in an age of iron ships, international competition and monopolies. Men of the sea, as skilful in deed as in word, the captains of the river's last schooners are experiencing the end of an artisanal era in which their sons can no longer find a place....
The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
New product!Subscription access
Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Beaupré the Giant
Subscription access
Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Though he died young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body would take more than 80 years to find its way back home.
A Bear Named Wojtek
Subscription access
_A Bear Named Wojtek_ brings to life the extraordinary true story of a brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers in the Levant during World War II. This animated short follows Wojtek’s journey from the Persian desert to the front lines at the Battle of Monte Cassino, where he becomes both a soldier and a powerful symbol of resilience. As the soldiers form an unbreakable bond with Wojtek, the film e...
The Liberated Broom
Duration: 2h56
Subscription access
As they learn about _Le balai Libéré_, a self-managed cleaning company from the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian university campus question their working conditions and whether self-management is still possible today.
Extinction
Subscription access
Since the fall of the USSR, the question of borders and territories has been sensitive – and sometimes explosive. At the centre of _Extinction_ is Kolya, a young Moldovan who claims citizenship in Transnistria, a state not recognized by the international community. Salomé Lamas blends fiction and documentary to better capture the violent climate brewing in the region, where a Soviet mindset is ...
Bye Bye Tiberias
Subscription access
Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
K-Family Affairs
Subscription access
Filmmaker Arum Nam's parents are part of the proud 386 generation, which played a significant role in achieving democratization in South Korea. Eager to pass on a better world to Arum, her father became a public servant, and her mother, a feminist activist. But Arum’s perspective shifts at 18 with the Sewol ferry disaster. Also reflecting on events like #MeToo and impeachment, Arum ponders her ...
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be
Duration: 3h00Subscription access
After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.
Pacific Club
Subscription access
In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense—the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of becoming part of France, but who soon came face to face wi...
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Duration: 36 minutesSubscription access
A sixty-year-old man, who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth that have shaped his life. He takes us back to his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the police, in a cold and dark place.
Drexciya
_Drexciya_ portrays an abandoned swimming pool on Riviera Beach in Accra, Ghana. During the postcolonial era, at the beginning of Kwame Nkrumah's reign, the Riviera Beach Club was a luxurious hotel that thrived until the mid-1970s. The once-Olympic pool, now in a state of advanced disrepair, is now used for other purposes by the local community.
Bicentenario
Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar's liberation campaign in Colombia, _Bicentenario_ retraces Bolívar's journey across the country, searching for his lingering ghost within the contested territory. Creatively blending oral traditions, landscape cinema, and political essay, _Bicentenario_ cinematically reveals the collision of history and myth etched into the land of what would inevitably bec...
Paris, un jour d'hiver
Guy Gilles takes his camera around Paris on a winter's day. He follows passers-by, children playing in the snow, the gaze of people behind their windows, and plays with the fog and winter's bare trees.
Bitter September
After the murder of Greek LGBTQI+ activist Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend Sophia Farantatou finds herself in the middle of an impasse, between the media storytelling and the archive footage she shot with him. Only time can give her the space to mourn and come to terms with the absence of her friend.
The Last of the Franco-Ontarians
The Last of the Franco-Ontarians
Duration: 1h56Subscription access
The testamentary cry of a minority culture in the face of the hegemonic steamroller, or, doubt is a benevolent devil. In his hometown of Fauquier, Northern Ontario, poet Pierre Albert organizes a grand celebration to mark the foretold demise of the last Franco-Ontarian. A hybrid and eclectic project reflecting its subject, this imaginary documentary is a passionate tribute to a people and their...
Bergen, Norway
"Yesterday, I found my abuser's address in my phone's memory. I don't have a name, I don't have a face, I only have his address." - Alexia Roc
Souvenir Souvenir
For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a film based on his grandfather's memories of the Algerian War. Both a denial of history and a family taboo, the questions raised by the subject remain unanswered, leaving personal and collective memory shrouded in silence. The narrative delves into unspoken shame and the search for a hidden past, ultimately resolved through the making of the film.
Journal afghan
1965: Dimitri and Christine travel across the Near and Middle East by car. They film their journey with an 8mm camera and record a travel journal on a tape recorder. _Journal afghan_ is built from these traces. By replaying them in the chaotic pattern of memory’s persistence, it offers a new experience of travel and an intimate exploration of the mechanisms of memory.
The Secret Garden
Subscription access
The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
The River Schooners
Subscription access
Pierre Perrault's third feature film on Île aux Coudres, Les Voitures d'eau tackles the problem of the builders and navigators of wooden schooners, in an age of iron ships, international competition and monopolies. Men of the sea, as skilful in deed as in word, the captains of the river's last schooners are experiencing the end of an artisanal era in which their sons can no longer find a place....
