Documentary

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 ...

Ulrich Seidl takes a documentary look at big game hunting in Africa and addresses what oftentimes is the illegal killing of endangered species.

A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers.

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.

A documentary that examines the role of women in art history.

A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history.

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The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, ...

This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination ...

A visually stunning film about femininity and solidarity with the healing power of a sauna ritual.

Four Zimbabwean men form their country's first Wine Tasting Olympics team.

The district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is ...

Once acclaimed, later shunned: this documentary follows Paul Blanca's fall from grace – a downward spiral of fame, drugs, and a longing for dignity.

A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key ...

“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 ...

Verteld door Tom Waes.

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.

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

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 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 ...

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

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

‘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 ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

As Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. Director ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons' first haute couture collection at the Christian Dior fashion house as its new artistic director. Dior ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 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 ...

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...