Opening Scenes

An unsettling look at a group of young people that seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight, while playing and getting high. Like dancing on the brink of an abyss that stares defiantly at you. A...

National Competition

45,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals between 1939 and 1945. A single site escaped this carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban, an isolated village in Lozère. What happened there for it to...

Latitudes

Anna Eborn follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Transnistria, a country where the shadow of Soviet legacy looms large. An extremely precise and sensual portrait of a desire for hope and a...

Opening Scenes

Astronauts set foot  on the red earth of the Oman desert before the unbelieving eyes of the Bedouin. Two high school girls build castles in the air. A young boy trains to jump as far as possible....

Grand Angle

Aatos is a six-year-old boy. His mother is Finnish, his father is Chilean, and they live in Brussels in the district of Molenbeek. At this age full of questions and whys, Aatos observes the world that...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

A man returns to Bamako, the city of his childhood, and perceives in the streets — fleeing like a shadow in the night — the face of what he was in the past: a lost child. His voice then...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer's is slowing her down. A...

International Feature Film Competition

Laosan stares at the lush vegetation that surrounds the village of the Akha­–an ethnic group from China–where he lives with his family in the north of Laos. Is he thinking about the centennial legend...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

  Semira Adamu arrived in Belgium in 1998 when she fled from Nigeria. Held in a closed detention centre next to Brussels Airport, she died smothered with a cushion during a sixth attempt at forced...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

As a child, Aleksandr Vinogradov had his grandmother as an accomplice. In her home, he could dress up as a woman, explore his desires and identities, seek out in himself what was absolutely forbidden...

International Feature Film Competition

Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a boy she knows. It all happens very quickly, she does not defend herself. It is in 2013, after a screening of her first film, that Alexe...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Out Skerries is a minuscule archipelago of the United Kingdom located in Scotland, to the east of the Shetland Islands, in the middle of the North Sea. A few years ago, the fish farm—the island's main...

International Feature Film Competition

Om El Khir is a real fighter. Her husband has disappeared. One morning, he left on a boat for Europe and she has since received no evidence on whether he is dead or alive. Alone with her three...

Opening Scenes

A Japanese man called Sushi sets off travelling in a camper that is the same age as him, in southern Portugal. He is looking for a legendary spring that could cure his broken heart. On the road, the...

Opening Scenes

Pacific is the name of the building where the director lives, on the 18th floor. Also known as “the suicide tower”, it is a typical example of collective housing. In a subtle interplay between the...