In The Empire of Silence, Thierry Michel ricostruisce quasi trent’anni di un dramma che si svolge in uno dei paesi più ricchi del mondo, il Congo, dove la popolazione è tra le più povere. Con il suo documentario, il regista ripercorre 25 anni di guerra nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo, confrontata con la cecità e la sordità della comunità internazionale. The Empire of Sil...
A la demande d'un comité de quartier, le réalisateur et son équipe tente de dresser le portrait d'un quartier de Bruxelles enfermé dans le triangle étroit de trois rues.
Dans ce microcosme fertile aux problèmes de cohabitation, les habitants disent pourtant en chur Ici tout va bien . Mais, petit à petit, certains se confient à cette caméra étrangère. Un réseau très complexe...
En Méditerranée, un lieu réel et fictif à la fois. Là d’où Icare s’est jeté pour se brler les ailes. Là où se croisent paquebots, pêcheurs, migrants fuyant le désastre, sauveteurs et scientifiques étudiant les conséquences du réchauffement sur les fonds marins. Là où des signes se révèlent : notre capacité à mesurer et à interpréter le monde n’est-elle pas tombée dans une déme...
In 1994, up to one million people lost their lives in the Rwandan genocide, and yet today there are those who deny its horrors. With his film, the Belgian director attempts to recall the specific stories of the victims of the genocide so that their suffering is not forgotten. He visits the Rwandan villages where the ruthless killing took place and follows the story of three Tut...
A ship leaves the port of Ostend, the nets are cast, but when it enters French territorial waters it is inspected by the coast guards. The images and shots play on proximity, bringing together the fishermen’s faces, the ropes, the sea, the flash of the fish, and the baskets full of the sea’s bounty.
In the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Highlands which attract tourists in search of exoticism, has also attracted foreign oil companies. This is where tribes who are paid to dance gather every year and the place where a Huli family and their clan in their quest for modernity have agreed to sell their land to ExxonMobil. But the money never comes… Caught between rival tribes, gr...
Join the train of progress !The small town of Datong is being transformed, following the path of the great Chinese history. Young people work hard there, aiming for the sky, tradition disappears in the face of modern urbanism and nothing will stop the advance of power. Thus China will become a great socialist country, beautiful, modern, prosperous, powerful, democratic, harmo...
Juste un mouvement ('just a movement') is Vincent Meessen's free take on La Chinoise, the 1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard, and a "film in progress of making itself" in Dakar. It is conceived as a re-editing operation of Godard's film, reallocating its roles and characters, and updating its plot. Omar Blondin Diop, the only actual Maoist student in the original, now has the leading...
From his first album composed in a maid's room to his performance at Eurovision, Sébastien Tellier never ceased to suprise, divert, bother, all without getting lost along the way. The constantly renewed authenticity of his musical universe is still one of the strongest in today's contemporary pop scene. Throughout testimonies and extracts from Quentin Dupieux's Nonfilm, appears...