Line up 2010
Algeria, images of a fight
Like all modern conflicts, the war in Algeria has challenged the value of reported images. Confronted with the abundance of
films produced by the French army, a few filmmakers as René Vautier, in reaction to propaganda, pledged alongside
Algerian fighters, depicting their struggle. Camera in hand, they brought crucial images back, although most of them were
then censored. [...]
Behing the ring
Through the passion of Michele di Rocco, angel-faced Rom gipsy, light-weight italian champion, and Maria Rosa Tabbuso, gracious hairdresser and european champion, the film describes the mechanisms of a boxing event, portraying also manager Umberto Conti Cavini and his wife Rosanna, first organising lady in the world. A polaroid, high in colour, of the boxing world. [...]
Luce's besa. against blood justice
In Albania, Luce's son was murdered. Considering the turmoil her country has been living through for so many years, and thanks to a personnal and spiritual journey, she decides to forgive the assassin. Further to the "Besa" of the traditionnal Kanun law, the “Forgiven” considers Luce from then on as his own mother, and he's rehabilitated. The two families, Christian and Muslim, are now bond in peace while Luce as become an ombudsman and helps other families to refuse blood justice. [...]
Wall to wall
A road-movie taking us from Berlin Wall’s remains to Ceuta’s immigration gate to reveal Europe’s multicultural society. Far from cliché, intimate, optimistic, humourous and somewhat squeaky, it features encounters with these women and men composing a new society with generosity, despite ambiant traditions of rejection. [...]
Damned of the sea (the)
Thousands of struggling moroccan fishermen have to move further and further south to keep hope in catching some fish, any fish, if any fish left to catch. In the background, close from the shores, huge foreign trawlers drag the waters with their death nets, killing an entire ecosystem, sometimes literally « vacuuming » it. They bought fishing licenses to do so. Foreground, these desperated fishermen, witness an inevitable disappearance, while their revolt ew month earlier has been violently repressed by the authorities. [...]
Tomorrow I’ll feel better
Axelle, Hugo, Kareem and Victor have a cancer. They are just kids, one is still a baby. They stand up for 18 months to the treatment's ordeal, with the help of their loving parents and of the medical team, as professional as warm-hearted. A filmed struggle into advanced medicine, sophisticated, but still rough - the team perform miracles but cannot accomplish all … it is brain cancer here. A dense, highly informative film, respectfull in its uplifting portrait of the children's spontaneity : a force manifested with astonishing strength. [...]
The dictionnary according to Marcus
Marcus helps his friends fleeing from prison, shelters them and give them a way out of the belgian territory. For that crime, he did the time, more than once. It is a way of life, a faith, a morality. As he knows a running man can call him anytime for help, and that he will most certainly pay for it, he always keeps, next to him, a bagfull og books and a dictionnary. Reading is his way to escape. When he has read it all, Marcus learns the words in the dictionnary, by heart. [...]
Dunia Zâlem
Back on the scene of a childhood devoted to work, Fatimata, 27, tells the story children of Burkina Faso. Tene, Souley and
Ado, aged between 7 and 14, work just to get by. As many they were sent to town by their resourceless parents. After five
years in Belgium, what seemed then normal upsets her. Torn between African and Western points of view, she wonders
about the future of these children. [...]
El ejido
Spain Almeria region produces 1/3 of EEC’s winter consumption of fruits and vegetables. A greenhouse economic miracle
based on 80,000 immigrants’labour, mostly illegal daily workers for a pittance. The village of El Ejido, ruined by pesticides,
incarnates overexploitation. This slavery fills our plates. [...]
In case of loss of pressure
The film tells how a mother, the director ("Do not tell my mother"), overcomes the shock of the announcement of child's
handicap - and how the bad news force her, an ex-stripper, to accept her own difference. With a personnal point of view,
with distance but also intimacy, her reality is grasped in a blend of documentary, pictured dreams and symbolism. A subtle
and moving meditation on difference. [...]
Fritkot
Humourus, featuring colourfull characters, the film portrays a traditionnal and endangered chips snack, as the little theater of contemporary troubled Belgium. A cramped hut where queuing brings dialogue and improbable encounters. A friendly place, which represents a chance, in compartmented societies, of living together. [...]
Ghetto millionnary
The "Sapeurs", congolese Jet setters who embody access to the rich West, cannot go unnoticed. They should on all occasions show their designer-labelled elegance, in filmed challenges passionnating youths. But how to appear wealthy while being in a precarious situation? A film as an immersion in this fantasy world. [...]
Kafka in Congo
Gorette got her land ripped off. Without a lawyer, she defends herself in the courts of the Republic of Congo. Bahati Lukwebo, quaestor of finances of the National Assembly, seeks to retain his position coveted by many. Both put up with a country where officials aren't paid and voters are too poor to make a free choice. [...]
Kick 'n' roll
The Shinobi Riders are very zen boys and girls who play soccer on roller skates, and run for the world cup. We accompain them
to San Francisco, skating down Chinatown, then to competition. Portrait of a microculture tinted with Mangas esthaetics, the film
offers a glimpse on an engaging teenage, full of hopes and talents, far beyond divisions of race, age, social origin, or sex. [...]
KOR
The film recounts the story of KOR (Committee for the Defense of Workers), through the testimony and the archives of five
founders and activists of the movement, engaged in the workers' struggle against Stalinism. A contemporary political
adventure that led to the creation of Solidarnosc, marking a entire european generation, and re-affirmating values still
threatened today: democracy, solidarity, struggle for social justice and ability to live together. [...]
The embrase of the river
On one of the rocks of the Magdalena, first river of Colombia, the Mohan smokes and drinks, waiting for women to drag them in his underwater palace. They come back pregnant or disappear. He scares fish away and holds the nets; sometimes he drowns a fisherman. But lately, he is rare, one is les afraid from spirits than from paramilitariy terrorists. And the Magdalena rolls corpses in its depths. [...]
The way of others
Twelve young people walk and slide through Lapland. An extreme adventure which aims to be a social laboratory: some are "normal", of stable scholarity and families; others socially unadapted, in foster care; four are disabled or Down syndrome youths. They drill the ice for water and fishing, cook on a wood fire. They sleep in a collective tent or build igloos. They live in community. It is the dream of the project founder: the opening up of compartmented individuals. He then checks his intuitions and utopic desires. A year later, we discover how their world vision has changed. [...]
The father's boat
Why the dead do not leave us alone? Why do they come in our dreams and thoughts? In Cherbourg, four years ago, the
Director’s father died in his apartment’s fire, lonely and alcoholic. She returns to what she left, her town, her family, her
memories. A quest in overcoming grief and getting on with her life. [...]
A modele in love
Nel tells a writer, in the early '60s, about his companion who died in 1916 in the midst of war, the painter-sculptor Rik Wouters. With hundreds of these unpublished letters, the film gives voice to the woman who was the only model of her husband, who remembers each painting, each drawing he made. In their forest village, she lives with Rik love fusion, blending art, creation, life. The First World War breaks happiness: Rik is cast on the battlefield... [...]
Far away from Rome
After 20 years of priesthood, Jean-Pol, everyone's friend in his walloon small town, leaves his country to seek his own path. He chooses to live in a social housing complex, multi -cultural and religious, in the south of France. A personnal journey where a desire of inner thruth reveals itself, the one which discretely changes the worlld. [...]
Manu, high on wheels
Manu and Erol, the kings of Belgian wheelchair-football promised each other to lead their team, the MEC, up to the French 1st Division. Erol died. The film follows Manu in his challenge, captures the intimacy of severely disabled athletes although almost like others: primarily competitive. It draws a nuanced portrait Manu, not really a hero but well a captain, determined to fight against wind, tides and his myopathy to lead his ship to port. [...]
Those waiting for the bird
The portrait, in a small mining town, of a long-time homing pigeon champion who perpetuates this popular practice. A traditionnal sport, amateur, open to all, to question contemporary sport’s evolution. In Belgium, internationally reknowned for breed’s quality and for specialized products, this sport has become a business and a science. [...]
Nord-sud.com
In Cameroun, cyber-bars are mainly visited by women seeking a european or american white husband. Several stories of couples and destinies depict the dreams and disappointments underlying these encounters. Inspired by hope or phantasmas, some dreams turn to nightmare: prostitution is also on the lookout online. [...]
N.T.R. Nuclear, nothing to report
How does nuclear industry operate today, now switched from public service to the liberalization of energy trade ? Economy rules and rimes with sub-contracting and squeezing safety mesures. Nuclear industry workers in France and throughout Europe do verify on a daily basis that a zero-risk situation is far and unreachable ... their safety is also ours. Nuclear energy, bad news since Tchernobyl catastroph, is back to the frontscene. It's main quality : a participation to reducing our societies' CO2 production - but to which price ? [...]
Rock 'n' roll missionnary
Patrick is a musical scene resistant: he keeps Rockabilly alive, and even brings it to the Eurovision Contest frontstage. Rock
attittude, whisky & beer and banana hairdo, his free speech and unconventionnal look disrupts the sanitized event. While
becoming an icon for the international press, he looses his voice before the competition : only his performing skills and will
can save this Rock'n'roll missionnary. A humorous launcher for Eurovision ! [...]
Salaam Isfahan
From the public space of the street to the private space of homes, Iranians have their pictures taken by the director. Through the dialogue created by the photo session and the way they pose, the characters reveal themselves subtly and a question emerges [...]
Somville, an artist among manking
The portrait of a major artistic icon, early founder of New realism movement : Somville, fierce fighter for more justice and
equality. A painter dedicated to an art tuned with real life, an artist and a man among other men, with seriousness and humor. A
speech and an art, healthy and invigorating in thes times of financial crisis and doubt. [...]
Stolen art
A criminal and esthetical investigation on artist Pavel Novak, virtuosi copist wanted by the FBI and on his 1978 « Stolen Art » exhibition in New York, who caused a scandal … some pieces proved to be originals. Specialists unveil our relation to Art, cultural object but also merchandise. A film as a hoax to reveal the real emotion an art piece awakes in ourselves. Does beauty exist without copyright? [...]
A sweet moment
Who hasn’t kept the memory of a cake, a candy that reminds him of a pleasant childhood moment? A tasty journey through
the pastries rooms from Brussels, Liege, Ghent, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest. In the cozy atmosphere of intimate
conversations, it recount the lives of customers and bakers, but also the history of these places, often faced with History. [...]
A school in Hostland
This film restores discussion and testimonies in a classroom of young people of emigration origin, born or not in Belgium, immersed in a mix of languages, sex, cultures. Is it harder for Muhammad than Peter or Paul to study and find a job? How to reconcile veil and profession? What to choose : Koran or reason, Muhammad or Darwin? What means secularism, gender equality, citizenship? [...]
Victor
Between 1976 and 83, the argentine dictatorship eliminated 30,000 people. Victor is one of a few survivors of ESMA, main
torture camp. Under threat, the photographer reproduced ID pictures of his torturers, forgers, but he also kept doubles of it,
which constituted irrefutable evidences against the criminals. Key witness, he tells about his resistance, still risking his life,
as many remain unpunished. [...]
You're served
In a indonesian recruitment center, women undergo training to become maids. They learn how to use a microwave, how to
be polite, their future employer's language and stamina at work. Tens of thousands of them leave each month for Asia or the
Middle East to bring a better salary home. But hope sometimes turns to a nightmare: overworked and mistreated, some are
reduced to a state of slavery. [...]
Welcome to paradise
From a refugee camp to a small american town, the film depicts the destiny of Fosia and Aden, a somali Ashraf couple, candidates to asylum finally displaced by the UN after 15 years of waiting in a Kenyian camp. Portrait of their waiting, exile and integration, the film questions the sacrifices consented for a «better life», as well as the values of our occidental world in regard of work, so as of the US Patriot act. A story which exemplarily illustrates the fate of million of people, under political and economic pressure … [...]
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