by Luisa Mello • 2019 • Brazil, Belgium

During the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a woman floats in waters far from home. When everything seems calm, a wave hits and carries her to the depths of her being. Water and Salt is a journey through the consciousness of someone whose country is ...

by Marta Pajek • 2016 • Poland

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns. The film is the second in the triptych Impossible Figures and Other...

by Mouaad el Salem • 2020 • Belgium, Tunisia

In this authentic and urgent diary film about longing for freedom and community, the filmmaker reflects on the individual and yet collective experience of being young and queer in Tunisia.

by Aulona Fetahaj • 2020 • Belgium, Kosovo

Drawing on digital memories and using online tools such as Google Maps, Aulona Fetahaj reflects on how it feels to be the child of refugees in the digital age.

by Fisnik Maxville • 2016 • Switzerland

Hana is trying to escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo. She meets Emir, a Serbian smuggler who will drive her to Hungary. On the road, complications arise as Emir’s unscrupulous associates take advantage of Hana’s vulnerability. In the midst of a fr...

by Joana Silva • 2016 • United Kingdom, Portugal

A fictional character’s body is assembled from memories embedded in an abandoned space.

by Anne Verbeure • 2021 • Belgium

Day and night, a giant sits on a hill, far away from his smaller fellow man. He fills his days organising things, making sure everything is in the right place at the right time. But he himself is usually nowhere to be seen.

by Jorn Plucieniczak • 2019 • Belgium

Symen and Sam pass their time in the monotony of a post-industrial suburb. They seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight countered by the invisible presence of ‘hardcore’. While gaming, they end up searching for the core of their desires.

by Diego Quinderé de Carvalho • 2021 • Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Brazil

Eight thousand five hundred kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, filmmaker Diego looks from the outside at the inaccessible forest from the outside. Its Belgian counterpiece, h...

by Manon Vila • 2019 • France

This is the story of a gang of teenage boys from the north-western part of Paris. We follow them in their wanderings, from the suburb of Cergy to that of Marne-la-Vallée. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, we are plunged into the superimposed worlds of the g...

by Olivier De Vos • 2021 • Belgium

An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.

by Lisa Foster • 2018 • Belgium

We all have a different rhythm. This film is a dance about individual rhythms that go together, seem to clash, or just stay separate.

by Jacqueline Lentzou • 2020 • Greece

Sofia is panicky again. The Universe decides to contact her—an other-worldly dialogue. Lentzou’s short film is a planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

by Luc de Heusch • 1958 • Belgium

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.

by Bülent Öztürk • 2013 • Belgium

Dilan pays with her life for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village—a powerful poetic portrait of an honour killing in the rural Kurdish southeast of Turkey.

by NEOZOON • 2017 • Germany

Dedicated to nutrition and the human attitude towards “production animals”, this YouTube-found footage collage provides disturbing insights into the behaviour of a Western affluent society towards animal products.

by Vanessa del Campo • 2019 • Belgium

Oman’s vast plains look so much like Mars that they are used as a training ground for astronauts. Two local girls gaze at the starry sky like curious scientists while the astronauts philosophise about living on the Red Planet—people who differ greatly becaus...

by Inès Sedan • 2011 • France

In a binary universe, a man must hide his true feelings and dance, dance, until he has the courage to defy the norms and reveal who he really is.

by Hoda Taheri • 2022 • Germany

Confused about German bureaucracy and questioning her sexuality, Hoda, an Iranian asylum seeker in Berlin, finds herself hooked on Magdalena, who promised to ensure her asylum by marrying her. Due to changes in Magdalena’s private life, her decision to marry Hoda ...

by Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels • 2011 • Belgium

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community, where he spent his youth, to visit his dying mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in his life. In a state of sadness, he retreats ...

by Pol Merchan • 2018 • Germany

Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s. This hybrid mix of documentary, fiction, photography, and literature aims to portray th...

by Ov • 2020 • France

In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

by Andrés Jurado • 2022 • Colombia, Portugal

In an unknown place, futuristic ruins overlap with the story of an indigenous saga. In 20th-century Colombia, resistance fighter Yarokamena, a member of the indigenous Uitoto tribe, called for rebellion against violent exploitation of the rubber minin...

by Jaro Minne • 2019 • Georgia, Belgium

Winter. A fifteen-year-old girl in a remote Georgian town tries to get closer to her older brother just as he decides to leave home in search of work abroad.