Documentary

  • Cunningham

    Cunningham

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.33min

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    The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is profiled in Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary, through recreations of his landmark ...


  • Petites

    Petites

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.23min

    -10

    “Petites” tells the story of the Dutroux case through the testimonies of the generation of children, now grown up, who were exposed far too early with ...


  • Whale Nation - Dutch version

    Whale Nation - Dutch version

    Documentary

    2023

    1h.21min

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    Verteld door Tom Waes.


  • Heart of Oak

    Heart of Oak

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.20min

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    Wordless French documentary essentially following a year through the seasons for a two hundred year old oak tree, and all the life that happens on it.


  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    Documentary

    2022

    2h.2min

    -16

    The life of photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler family, responsible for the opioid crisis.


  • Amy

    Amy

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2014

    2h.8min

    -12

    The story of Amy Winehouse in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.


  • Folon

    Folon

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.25min

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    One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold...


  • Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction

    Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction

    Documentary

    1985

    31min

    -12

    Since the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, countless Palestinian villages have been erased from the map. This film uses poignant images of bombardments, ...


  • House

    House

    Documentary

    1980

    51min

    -12

    House is the story of a house in West-Jerusalem: abandoned during the 1948 war by its owner, a Palestinian doctor; requisitioned by the Israeli government ...


  • My Imaginary Country

    My Imaginary Country

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.23min

    -12

    This documentary explores the protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy ...


  • ZUT - Zones Urgentes à Transformer

    ZUT - Zones Urgentes à Transformer

    Documentary

    2022

    52min

    -10

    In a remote corner of Belgium, the inhabitants want to stop using pesticides.


  • This is my moment

    This is my moment

    Documentary

    2024

    1h.46min

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    ‘This is my moment’ gives a unique insight into Biniam Girmay’s climb to success and to adulthood. For more than six years, Lieven Corthouts was the only ...


  • The Reason I Jump

    The Reason I Jump

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.22min

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  • Mars, Oman

    Mars, Oman

    Documentary

    2019

    21min

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    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 ...


  • Why We Fight?

    Why We Fight?

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.48min

    -12

    A documentary that seeks to understand the violence that surrounds us, but also the violence within us.


  • Dad Magnet

    Dad Magnet

    Documentary

    2020

    15min

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    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 ...


  • Cow

    Cow

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.34min

    -12

    A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.


  • Martin Luther King vs. the FBI

    Martin Luther King vs. the FBI

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.44min

    -10

    Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.


  • On the Tip of the Heart

    On the Tip of the Heart

    Documentary

    2002

    1h.30min

    -10

    Documentary filmmaker Anne Lévy-Morelle observes and documents hospital life without becoming voyeuristic or intrusive.


  • Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

    Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.21min

    -10

    Donna Haraway is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology, a feminist, and a science-fiction enthusiast who works at building a bridge ...


  • Leading Lights

    Leading Lights

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.30min

    -10

    La Petite École in Brussels welcomes children who have never attended school, who are often from an immigrant background. Marie and Juliette have created ...


  • A Life Like Any Other

    A Life Like Any Other

    Documentary

    2023

    1h.8min

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    The director revisits the family footage filmed by her father throughout his life.


  • The Porters

    The Porters

    Documentary, Shorts

    2022

    31min

    -10

    Some kids in Brussels play a game based upon objects that were brought back from the Congo and which were used during the Hutereau expedition.


  • Human not human

    Human not human

    Documentary

    2023

    38min

    -10

    Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It’s the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the ...


  • L'amour / La mort

    L'amour / La mort

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.33min

    -12

    Why do we keep on searching for love when it can wound us so much?


  • Cabinets of Wonder

    Cabinets of Wonder

    Documentary, Kids & Family

    2021

    1h.18min

    16+


  • Wild Gene

    Wild Gene

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.15min

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    "Wild Gene", a 70min documentary by Joris Gijsen on Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, gives a unique insight in the studio practice of one of the most prominent ...


  • Dragon Women

    Dragon Women

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.23min

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    Set between Hong Kong, London and Frankfurt, this is the intimate portrait of five women working in the highest spheres of finance. Regularly stigmatised ...


  • An italian Youth

    An italian Youth

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.21min

    -10

    After marrying a girl from his native village, Sokuro, a young Burkinabe immigrant living in Italy, tries to build a future with her despite the distance ...


  • In Another Life

    In Another Life

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.17min

    -10

    1991, Philippe de Pierpont met and filmed 6 street children in Burundi. In 2018, he meets them for the fourth time.


  • A Way Home

    A Way Home

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.30min

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    When filmmaker Karima Saïdi’s mother Aïcha develops Alzheimer’s at the end of her life, Karima decides to make a film portrait of her at her Brussels care ...


  • Little Girl

    Little Girl

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.25min

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    The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is ...


  • Future Shocked

    Future Shocked

    Documentary

    2021

    2h.3min

    16+

    Based on interviews with philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, and illustrated with archive footage, the film explains how social change works, ...


  • As long as we can

    As long as we can

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.26min

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    A moving documentary about the last neighborhood stores and their owners.


  • Détruire rajeunit

    Détruire rajeunit

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.22min

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    A look back at the winter of 1960-1961, the scene of Belgium's longest general strike since the Second World War.


  • In a silent way

    In a silent way

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.38min

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    A film crew crisscrosses England trying to unravel the mystery surrounding a record released 30 years earlier, 'Spirit of Eden', that defined the passage ...


  • Touching Infinity

    Touching Infinity

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.16min

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    Touching Infinity tells the story of three families confronted with nearby death. Beyond sadness and fears, Touching Infinity takes us on a journey of ...


  • Victoria

    Victoria

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.11min

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    California City, a planned city in the desert, where a young African-American man dreams of starting a new life. Documentary impressions, mobile phone ...


  • Flamenco, Flamenco

    Flamenco, Flamenco

    Documentary

    2010

    1h.37min

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    Great masters and new talents are brought together by one of the masters of Spanish cinema for a journey to the heart of flamenco.


  • The Man Who Stole Banksy

    The Man Who Stole Banksy

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.33min

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    A stylish examination of public space and the commodification of street art, narrated by Iggy Pop.


  • Petit Samedi

    Petit Samedi

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.15min

    -10

    Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his Belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, ...


  • Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

    Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

    Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary

    2017

    1h.55min

    -10

    The life of Jamaican musician, actress, model and party queen Grace Jones with concert performances and intimate, candid footage.


  • Cybernetica

    Cybernetica

    Documentary

    1964

    27min

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    The principles and first applications of cybernetics are presented in the context of the third industrial revolution, the appearance of robotics.


  • Jacob Smits

    Jacob Smits

    Documentary, Shorts

    1955

    13min

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    Jacobus Johannes Smits (Rotterdam, 1855 - Achterbos / Mol, 1928) was a Dutch-Flemish painter. Smits was so impressed by the Kempen that he settled permanently ...


  • Overseas

    Overseas

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.30min

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    In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work, a ...


  • Dag Daens

    Dag Daens

    Documentary, Drama

    1980

    45min

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    A docu-drama in which people of today send greetings to people of the past : to all those who dedicated themselves to the Flemish and social struggle. The ...


  • Beerschot 75 jaar

    Beerschot 75 jaar

    Documentary

    1975

    24min

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    In 1899, Alfred Grisar founds the "Beerschot Athletic Club" on the Kiel in Antwerp, an all-round sports club in which soccer gradually takes the upper ...


  • Belgian Blue

    Belgian Blue

    Documentary, Shorts

    2020

    18min

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    A cow. A calf. Utility animals in a giant industry? Or animals with feelings and rights? A different view on animal husbandry. A story about the fate of ...


  • Cure

    Cure

    Documentary, Shorts

    2016

    21min

    tous publics

    Every morning, Cécile takes her car for her round as a nurse in the countryside of Bordeaux. With her presence both distant and reassuring, she treats, ...


  • Arno: Dancing Inside My Head

    Arno: Dancing Inside My Head

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.18min

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    For the first time in his 40-year career, Arno Hintjens allows a filmmaker to follow his creative process. The documentary follows him during the recording ...


  • Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter

    Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter

    Documentary

    2000

    50min

    tous publics

    Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with ...


  • Mother's

    Mother's

    Documentary

    2019

    22min

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    The portrait of the family of a Brussels drag queen composed of four generations in their dressing rooms during a show. As facial features ae covered by ...


  • Queen Lear

    Queen Lear

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.24min

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    Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.


  • The Brussels Business

    The Brussels Business

    Documentary

    2012

    1h.25min

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    An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all-embracing networks of power. In ...


  • Beeldverhalen

    Beeldverhalen

    Documentary, Shorts

    1974

    11min

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    Short documentary that showcases the creation of a 'Suske en Wiske' comic book from the first drawing to the kids reading it.


  • 20,000 Days On Earth

    20,000 Days On Earth

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2014

    1h.37min

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    This fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave by artists Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard combines drama and ...


  • Bakolo Music International

    Bakolo Music International

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.26min

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    "Bakolo Music International" has just celebrated the group's 70th anniversary. This year they are setting off on a new international tour. Whatever awaits ...


  • Azadi

    Azadi

    Documentary, Shorts

    2018

    40min

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    In 2016 a controversial deal was signed between the European Union and Turkey to stop refugees from making the short, yet perilous crossing to the Greek ...


  • L'école du changement

    L'école du changement

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.34min

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    In Brussels, two teams of passionate teachers are in the process of realising their dream: to do school differently and give it new meaning. Driven by ...


  • Manneken Swing

    Manneken Swing

    Documentary

    2015

    52min

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    Manneken Swing follows the personal and musical journey of one of Belgium's jazz pioneers, Stan Brenders.


  • Untouchable

    Untouchable

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.38min

    -16

    The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and protected his power even when scandal threatened to ...


  • Broken Art

    Broken Art

    Documentary

    2019

    52min

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    In the heart of Brussels, in the former disused headquarters of the Solvay company - a building doomed to destruction - artist Denis Meyers seeks to make ...


  • Before the Last Curtain Falls

    Before the Last Curtain Falls

    Documentary

    2014

    1h.32min

    -10

    This documentary tells the story of great love, bitter disappointments and self-doubts - but most of all of courage. The courage to take risks, try something ...


  • La Collection qui n'existait pas

    La Collection qui n'existait pas

    Documentary

    2014

    1h.33min

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    In June 2011, Herman Daled decided to sell off his collection of conceptual art. Acquired by MoMA in New York, it included masterworks by Marcel Broodthaers ...


  • Inkotanyi

    Inkotanyi

    Documentary

    2017

    2h.6min

    tous publics

    For the first time, light is shed on the Inkotanyi politico-military movement that ended the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and is led by Paul Kagame, ...


  • Burning Out

    Burning Out

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.25min

    -10

    Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one ...


  • Shadow World

    Shadow World

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.34min

    tous publics

    Feature documentary that explores the international arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and losses in human lives.


  • Zeno from the abyss

    Zeno from the abyss

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.8min

    tous publics

    Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, played ...


  • Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.24min

    tous publics

    BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together ...


  • McQueen

    McQueen

    Biography, Documentary

    2018

    1h.51min

    tous publics

    Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his ...


  • The Color of the Chameleon

    The Color of the Chameleon

    Biography, Documentary

    2017

    1h.27min

    -12

    During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent ...


  • Deaf Child

    Deaf Child

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.12min

    tous publics

    Alex de Ronde paints a loving portrait of his son, who has found his way in life and doesn't think he is pathetic. Producer and father Alex de Ronde sketches ...


  • I'm New Here

    I'm New Here

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.32min

    -10

    Guangzhou, China. A building erected in the communist style of the eighties: Tian Xiu. Since many years this is the Eldorado for African migrants who massively ...


  • Grands travaux

    Grands travaux

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.41min

    tous publics

    The lives of 4th-graders in the section 'electrical installations' in a Brussels school: courses, football, tribulations and the search for housing and ...


  • The Land of the Enlightened

    The Land of the Enlightened

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.23min

    -12

    As Americans occupy their country, young Afghans dig up old Soviet mines to sell the explosives to other children.


  • L'Âge de raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne

    L'Âge de raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne

    Documentary

    2013

    1h.1min

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    Starting from the inside of their films, "The Age of Reason, the cinema of the Dardenne brothers" proposes a journey into a masterful body of work.


  • Faith Connections

    Faith Connections

    Drama, Documentary

    2013

    1h.55min

    tous publics

    A filmmaker's insight into the biggest gathering on earth -the Kumbh Mela.


  • The Sound of Belgium

    The Sound of Belgium

    Documentary, Independent

    2013

    1h.25min

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    A chronicle of unique popular music, The Sound of Belgium goes in search of the spirit of a nation and the people that danced to it. At the end of the ...


  • The Story of a Panty

    The Story of a Panty

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.0min

    tous publics

    The process of making a pair of panties connects Yulduz, a farmer in the Uzbek cotton fields deprived of freedom of expression; Janaki, a young Sumangali ...


  • The Event

    The Event

    Documentary

    2015

    1h.14min

    tous publics

    In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. ...


  • Brussels-Transit

    Brussels-Transit

    Documentary

    1982

    1h.20min

    tous publics

    Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt ...


  • By the name of Tania

    By the name of Tania

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.21min

    -12

    The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez ...


  • Woman

    Woman

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.45min

    tous publics

    WOMAN is a worldwide project giving voice to 2000 women in 50 different countries.


  • Ask Dr. Ruth

    Ask Dr. Ruth

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.49min

    tous publics

    A documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist. As ...


  • Sounds of Origin

    Sounds of Origin

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.52min

    tous publics

    Documentary film about the influence of the Dutch-Indo history on modern pop music in the Netherlands.


  • La Chana

    La Chana

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.25min

    tous publics

    The film brings us under the skin and into the mind of La Chana, a talented Gypsy flamenco dancer as she returns to the stage to give a final seated performance ...


  • Mountain

    Mountain

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.14min

    tous publics

    Mountain offers a visually thrilling -- and surprisingly affecting -- look at man's relationship with some of Earth's most imposing natural wonders. Only ...


  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Documentary

    2008

    1h.39min

    -12

    Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.


  • Down to Earth

    Down to Earth

    Documentary

    2015

    1h.22min

    tous publics

    Breaking away from convention, this family went on a five year journey to find a new perspective on life. Their life with tribal communities around the ...


  • The Biggest Little Farm

    The Biggest Little Farm

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.31min

    -10

    The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking ...


  • We Will Remember Them

    We Will Remember Them

    Documentary

    2018

    58min

    tous publics

    Ever since 1919, the daily life in Ypres, in Flanders Fields, has been dedicated to commemorating the First World War. The films makes a journey through ...


  • Manu

    Manu

    Biography, Documentary

    2018

    1h.32min

    -10

    Emmanuelle Bonmariage directs a portrait of her father Manu, a real-world filmmaker and the spiritual father of "Strip Tease."


  • Sunnyside

    Sunnyside

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.12min

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    Sound artist and comedian Henry "Sandy" Jacobs, and his old friend, architect Daniel Liebermann, are neighbours. Together, they live on a mountain in northern ...


  • De engel van Doel

    De engel van Doel

    Documentary

    2011

    1h.16min

    tous publics

    As the village of Doel dies a slow death under pressure from the advancing Antwerp docks, the elderly Emilienne tries to continue with her everyday life. ...


  • Hollywood by Bike

    Hollywood by Bike

    Documentary

    1992

    1h.58min

    tous publics

    Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.


  • Exland

    Exland

    Shorts, Documentary

    2013

    7min

    -12

    Somewhere, lost among the majestic fjords and snowy peaks, mysterious postmodern monuments bear witness to an ambiguous human presence that has attempted ...


  • Eurovillage

    Eurovillage

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.12min

    tous publics

    Surrounded by the Ardennes forest, Eurovillage, a former holiday resort, was transformed in 2011 into an "open" center for asylum seekers, managed by the ...


  • The Living Matrix

    The Living Matrix

    Documentary

    2009

    1h.25min

    tous publics

    Becker's documentary presents the arguments of the new-age practice of "bio-energetic medicine." Presented as a medical documentary, The Living Matrix, ...


  • Winnie

    Winnie

    Biography, Documentary

    2017

    1h.33min

    -12

    While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting ...


  • Compostelle, le chemin de la vie

    Compostelle, le chemin de la vie

    Documentary

    2015

    1h.36min

    tous publics

    The Compostela pilgrimage is an experience that attracts more and more people every year. The pilgrim is led to go beyond his limits and to confront himself ...


  • Inside the Distance

    Inside the Distance

    Biography, Documentary

    2017

    1h.41min

    tous publics

    A poetic portrait of Giorgi Shakhsuvarian, an Armenian boxing coach from Tbilisi. Living and working in Belgium, he prepares a young boxer to become a ...