Catalogue 2019

Buddy

Grand Angle

Heddy Honigmann 86ʹ 2018 Netherlands

Walking in the forest without being able to see, coming down the stairs or going shopping when one is paralysed, falling asleep with post-traumatic stress disorder: for the protagonists of Buddy ,...

We Will Remember Them

Special Screenings

Annabel Verbeke 60ʹ 2018 Belgium

“In Flanders fields the poppies grow between the crosses...” This poem by Canadian Lieutenant- Colonel John Mc Rae evokes one of the worst carnages of the Great War, which took place around Ypres....

Behind Our Eyes

Doc Alliance Selection

Anton Bialas 45ʹ 2018 France

Three portraits, three men, solitary and vagabond. First, Patrick Dumont, who lives in the streets and walks around Paris with a relationship to places that fosters an original simplicity....

#FEMALE PLEASURE

Special Screenings

Barbara Miller 97ʹ 2018 Germany, Switzerland

Barbara Miller's feature documentary #FEMALE PLEASURE portrays five courageous, smart and self-determined women, breaking the silence imposed by their archaic-patriarchal societies and religious...

Doel

Doc Alliance Selection

Frederik Sølberg 67ʹ 2018 Denmark, Belgium

In urban exploration guidebooks, Doel ranks high in the “ghost town” category. Caught between a nuclear plant and the industrial port of Antwerp, it is in fact going to make way for a new dock to...

Meeting Gorbachev

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

André Singer, Werner Herzog 90ʹ 2018 United States, United Kingdom, Austria

Over a six-month period, Werner Herzog meets several times with 87-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, the former President of the Soviet Union. They talk about politics, inevitably, about the six...

Blu

Atelier Massimo D'Anolfi & Martina Parenti

Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti 20ʹ 2018 Italy

A nocturnal voyage into the bowels of the Earth. The camera follows the work of a machine that is digging tunnels for new underground railway lines. A short film that starts from the darkness to...

Notes for a Heist Film

Latitudes

León Siminiani 89ʹ 2018 Spain

León Siminiani has always dreamed of making a heist film. One day, in the papers, he reads the story of Flako aka “The Robin Hood of Vallecas”, the leader of “the sewer gang”. With his men, Flako...

Kabul, City in the Wind

Grand Angle

Aboozar Amini 88ʹ 2018 Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Afghanistan

Violence has become a “normal” element of the lives of twelve-years-old Afshin and his brother Benjamin. They live with their family on the mountainside. Raised among bombs and guns, the local...

Camp on the Wind’s Road

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Natasha Kharlamova 60ʹ 2018 Russia

On the edge of a path, a ritual is quickly organised. A few pieces of wood constitute a small pyre where sweets, bread and other food are left. In a lost corner of the steppe, the members of...

A Donkey Called Geronimo

National Competition

Bigna Tomschin, Arjun Talwar 80ʹ 2018 Germany, Switzerland

A minuscule islet on the Baltic Sea, a handful of sailors and a dream: to live free, away from society. On the island, there was a bar, music, and a donkey called Geronimo—but the story to be told...

Sheep Hero

Grand Angle

Ton Van Zantvoort 81ʹ 2018 Netherlands

In the hazy peace of the heathland in the early morning, Stijn leads his flock of sheep. With a determined blue-eyed gaze and the appearance of a lonesome cowboy, he is one of the last traditional...

Here and Everywhere

Opening Scenes

Flavia Contreras De La Parra 30ʹ 2018 Chile

Following the instructions of a dream, Flavia sets out to make a film about the Chilean Antarctic. Mixing together Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Pinochet, this film also features an unforgettably...

What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

Grand Angle

Roberto Minervini 123ʹ 2018 Italy, United States, France

It is the summer of 2017. A tidal wave of police killings has hit the African-American community. A group of Black Panthers seeks justice. But racism and violence are engrained in the cogs of white...