Programme edition 2023
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All the Colours of the World are Between Black and White
Babatunde Apalowo
With All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White, Nigerian filmmaker Babatunde Apalowo delivers glowing, independent queer cinema. His moving feature debut deliberately resists cruelty and taboos.
Art College 1994
Liu Jian
Painter-filmmaker Liu Jian drew from his own past for this meandering snapshot of the uncertain times as an art student in 1990s China. Meet a group of delightfully pretentious students, their lives, their dreams, their love for Nirvana and Marcel Duchamp, and their ...
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Elene Naveriani
Elene Navariani's acclaimed third feature follows, with unusual lightness and humorous detachment, of a woman who looks fearlessly into the ageing face of love and mortality.
The Breaking Ice (燃冬)
Anthony Chen
In the eerie snowy landscape between North Korea and China, an endearing Gen Z throuple wards off existential unrest with melancholic love and a spontaneous road trip.
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Camping du lac
Éléonore Saintagnan
Paris-born Brussels-based filmmaker Eléonore Saintagnan docks at a small campsite with a miraculously big story in Camping du lac. Beautifully documented, brightly fictionalised and awarded at the Locarno Film Festival.
Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes)
Víctor Erice
Victor Erice, director of The Spirit of the Beehive, makes a triumphant comeback after more than three decades with Cerrar los ojos, telling a story about a filmmaker trying to solve a mystery from the past.
Conann
Bertrand Mandico
Confuse and conquer, that's the motto of director Bertrand Mandico, the French Sun King of artistic madness. In Conann, the fantasy legend of Conan the Barbarian mutates into a six-headed monster-trip.
Copenhagen Does Not Exist (København findes ikke)
Martin Skovbjerg
After a couple gradually withdraw from society, one day the young woman disappears. Her father tries to find out what happened, in this Danish mix of thriller and psychological drama.
Costa Brava, Lebanon (كوستا برافا، لبنان)
Mounia Akl
Crisis in Lebanon. This time not a film about the explosion in the port, but about the toxic pollution in Beirut. Pollution from which there is no escape, even if you build a paradise outside the city.
Creatura
Elena Martín
Elena Martín Gimeno's second film is a daring dive into the complex psychology of a woman who's the victim of sexual repression. This fluid, physical cinema with fantasy accents explores the close relationship between guilt, shame and desire.
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Drawing Lots
Tamta Khalvashi, Zaza Khalvashi
This posthumous work by Zaza Khalvashi, finished by his daughter Khalvashi, is an intriguing mosaic that threads together the lives of the inhabitants of a Georgian coastal town and reserves a significant role for the twists of fate.
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E6-D7
Eno Swinnen
This short film is part of Belgian Animation Shorts.
Easter Eggs
Nicolas Keppens
This short film is part of Belgian Animation Shorts.
Estratos de la imagen
Lois Patiño
This short film is part of Lois Patiño Short Film Retrospective.
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Floating With Spirits (VR)
Juanita Onzaga's VR trip Floating With Spirits immerses you in the magic hidden in the natural landscapes of the Mexican Mazatecs. Real and imagined worlds blend together in an unparalleled experience.
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The Human Surge 3 (El auge del humano 3)
Eduardo Williams
Eduardo Williams' film, as experimental as it is spectacular, is a transcendental experience that connects young people in Peru, Taiwan and Sri Lanka.
Hundreds of Beavers
Mike Cheslik
At the unexpected crossroads of The Revenant, Looney Tunes, Blazing Saddles and Buster Keaton films, the gleefully and endlessly inventive Hundreds of Beavers presents an alternative version of the man vs nature story. Including deadly icicles and conniving beavers.
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Inshallah a Boy
Amjad Al Rasheed
Through the painful fate of a young widow, debuting Lebanese director Amjad Al Rasheed indicts his country's gender inequality. A gripping account, albeit not without humour.
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Late Night with the Devil
Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
In the satirical found footage thriller Late Night with the Devil things go from bad to worse during a cursed talk show broadcast live on national TV in the 1970s. It's like having The Exorcist on Gert Late Night. Is there a demonologist in the audience?
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The Miracle
Nienke Deutz
This short film is part of Belgian Animation Shorts.
Mountain in Shadow
Lois Patiño
This short film is part of Lois Patiño Short Film Retrospective.
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Night Without Distance
Lois Patiño
This short film is part of Lois Patiño Short Film Retrospective.
Notre corps (Our Body)
Claire Simon
Claire Simon's intimate doc Our Body is a unique view on what it means to live in women's bodies.
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Oh Willy...
Emma De Swaef, Marc Roels
This short film is part of Belgian Animation Shorts.
Orlando, ma biographie politique (Orlando, My Political Biography)
Paul B. Preciado
In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, the first novel in which the main character changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, trans writer and activist Paul B. Preciado decides to send afilm letter to Virginia Woolf: her Orlando has come out of her fiction and is ...
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Playland
Georden West
A raucous work of queer fantasy and history, Playland conjures a time-bending night in Boston's oldest and most notorious gay bar.
Un prince
Pierre Creton
A fascinating film poem by the unparalleled French filmmaker Pierre Creton.
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Le ravissement
Iris Kaltenbäck
Another strong feature debut by a French director, this time Iris Kaltenbäch, who goes inside the head of a woman who loses herself while looking for love.
Riddle of Fire
Weston Razooli
Three young rascals on a mission delve ever deeper into the imaginative world of Riddle of Fire. Invigorating and fiery, this feature debut delivers a disobedient ode to mischief and the quest of childhood.
The Royal Hotel
Kitty Green
A nail-biting experience awaits with the nerve-wracking The Royal Hotel as backpackers find themselves caught among the unruly pub-goers. After The Assistant director Kitty Green and actress Julia Garner are here to make you uncomfortable again in this Australian nightmare.
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Samsara
Lois Patiño
A truly enchanting trip, Samsara depicts the Buddhist concept of birth, life, death and rebirth in a sensory way. A film somewhere between dream and reality, documentary and fiction, countries and bodies.