Country: Belgium

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Chantal Akerman

Synopsis Chantal Akerman’s News From Home combines mostly static shots of New York City with letters written to Chantal from her mother in Belgium. Other than the growing desire to have her daughter return home, there is no narrative progression and...

Direction Johan Grimonprez

Cast Louis Armstrong · Miles Davis · Nina Simone · Dizzy Gillespie

Synopsis Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Jan Decorte · Henri Storck · Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Synopsis A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow — whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner...

Direction Eyal Sivan · Michel Khleifi

Synopsis In the summer of 2002, Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, a Palestinian and an Israeli, travelled together from the south to the north of their country of birth, traced their trajectory on a map and called it Route 181. This...

Direction Jawad Rhalib

Cast Lubna Azabal · Fabrizio Rongione · Catherine Salée · Johan Heldenbergh

Synopsis Amal, a teacher in a Brussels school, encourages her pupils to cultivate a love of reading and freedom of expression, even if it means putting herself in danger. Her daring teaching practices will change her pupils' and family circle lives.

Direction Manu Coeman

Direction Nicolás Rincon Gille

Cast Blanca Ligia Rodríguez · Didier Ríos · Camilo Ríos · John Ríos

Direction Eric Pauwels

Direction Eric Pauwels

Cast Lola Pauwels · Mario Brenta · Martin Reizer · Michele Meurice

Direction Lukas Dhont

Cast Eden Dambrine · Gustav De Waele · Émilie Dequenne · Léa Drucker

Synopsis Close (2022) follows the profound bond between two thirteen-year-old boys, Léo and Rémi, whose friendship is deep and inseparable. Their connection is filled with joy, innocence, and unspoken understanding until societal expectations and peer perceptions begin to weigh on them....

Direction Wim Vandekeybus

Cast Laura Aris Alvarez · David Eugene Edwards · Elena Fokina · Jozef Frucek

Synopsis Blush is a cinematographic adaptation of the performance of the same name, from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus.

Direction Chantal Akerman

Synopsis This experimental documentary is a compendium of striking images of Eastern Europe and its citizens in transition, following the collapse of the so-called Cold War. Places as diverse as Baltic beaches, and Moscow's snow-covered streets vie for attention along with...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Aurore Clément · Helmut Griem · Magali Noël · Hanns Zischler

Synopsis Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their...

Direction Paul Haesaerts

Cast Pablo Picasso · Gérard Philipe · Frank Silvera

Direction Joris Ivens · Henri Storck

Direction Jean-Pierre Dardenne · Luc Dardenne

Cast Jérémie Rénier · Olivier Gourmet · Assita Ouédraogo · Frederic Bodson

Synopsis Hailed by many critics as one of the top ten films of the year, The Promise is the extraordinary story of a boy's ascendance to grace. Under the conscienceless guidance of his father (Olivier Gourmet as Roger), fifteen-year old Igor...

Direction Jaco Van Dormael

Cast Jared Leto · Sarah Polley · Diane Kruger · Linh Dan Pham

Synopsis In Mr. Nobody (2009), Nemo Nobody, the last mortal on Earth in 2092, reflects on his fragmented life. Through nonlinear storytelling, the film explores the infinite possibilities of his existence, hinging on pivotal choices. As a child, Nemo faces a...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Mark Amitin · Eszter Balint · Stephan Balint · Kirk Baltz

Synopsis This informal history of Jewish life over the past 100 years is related in a series of eyewitness accounts, re-created by a group of largely unknown actors.

Direction Fabrice Du Welz

Cast Anthony Bajon · Alba Gaïa Bellugi · Alexis Manenti · Sergi López

Synopsis When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to 'Maldoror'. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Angelo Abazoglou · Frank Aendenboom · Natalia Akerman · Véronique Alain

Synopsis Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance.