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- Brussels teacher Amal encourages students' passion for reading and freedom of expression, despite risks. Her daring approach leaves a mark on pupils and families.
- After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
- Charlotte is a doctor in Brussels. She is married to the architect Max and has a young son. She rents an apartment to meet men, while maintaining an intimate marriage and family life.
- The shadow of a deceased World War I soldier is captured by a collector, who offers him the chance to live again if he captures the shadows of 10,000 people, leading to a quest driven by love and jealousy.
- Ben Felten (51), who as a teenager was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease that left him completely blind in his mid-thirties. Despite his visual impairment, he wants to fulfill his childhood dream: top-level motorcycle racing.
- In Under the Naked Sky we follow ten-year-old Elvie, who lives with her mother on a camping site run by her grandfather. Elvie's mother is mentally impaired, having the mind and manners of a four-year-old.
- What does it take to express yourself? The surprising and moving story of Madonna's most famous troupe of dancers.
- On the island Texel, Marie dreams about mountains; she collects postcards of mountains all over the world. She would love to do something else with her life, but as the only girls in a big poor family in wartime, Marie has no choice: she must marry Paul. The extreme religious and narrow minded population at the island expects her to behave. The arrival of a group of Georgian soldiers brings color, life en love in Marie's life at the colorless Nordsea island. With their music and film, but especially with their inventive and unusual surviving strategies and their radically different vision on life, this isolated group foreigners help Marie to find herself. For the first time in her life, Marie falls in love. Unfortunately, her love for soldier Goga from Kazbek and the friendship with the other soldiers, is not accepted by her family and the other people on the island. Exhorted by the female hero in the Soviet musical 'The Aviatrix of Kazbek', the only film the Georgians carry with them and show as much as possible, Marie takes destiny in her own hands. When the Georgians eventually come in insurrection against the Germans, Marie chooses their side. She finds a unsuspected inner strength during the atrocious aftermath of this resistance, innumerable Georgians get killed, and Goga becomes a prisoner of war.
- David is a full family man: a woman he loves, two adorable children, a gang of friends. Returning from their last vacation, David is interrogated by the police as part of a murder. Quickly, the investigation establishes that it is not irreproachable.
- A father and a daughter face a range of conflicting emotions when she commits a random act of violence.
- A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, perhaps even to get revenge.
- Puzzle-like psychological drama about a domestic violence support worker.
- Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique. In one of the grandest hotels in the world, born of and to luxury, today you enter 'at own risk'. More than 2500 people live there without water or electricity. They have taken possession of the building and manipulated not only the stones but also the dreams. A journey through present and past of a city in a city; a story about colonial megalomania, revolutionary vanity and feeling at home.
- A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.
- Neel, 50 years old and mother of three, is terminally ill. According to her oncologist she only has one year to live. Neel is determined to spend the remaining time as well as possible and to die in the right frame of mind. For her, this means accepting her approaching death and closing her life in serenity. But at the same time she realizes her family will be left behind in distress. Neel still has to find a way to deal with this dilemma. Epilogue combines heaviness with lightness with poetry, and evokes questions about the end of life in a unique way. The film shows us a process for which there are no guidelines.
- Together with her mother Iris and her half-sister Rani, nine-year-old Bo moves to the countryside. Slightly bored in the new environment of fields and farms, the sisters look forward to the weekend when their fathers come to pick them up. Bo's father, however, doesn't show up again. While Rani spends the weekends at her dad's, Bo stays home alone. In the isolated landscape, she has to start to rely on herself and become more independent.
- Yevgeny Rodionov was an ordinary young Russian soldier who fell in Chechnya after being taken prisoner and refusing to convert to Islam. He was proclaimed a martyr and became an unofficial saint for many Russians. The life of Yevgeny's mother Lyubov underwent a radical change when her child 'became' a saint. Unable to let go of her grief, she keeps his iconic memory alive with the support of Orthodox priests, biker gangs and the Russian army, which uses his legend on TV shows, young cadets are preparing to sacrifice themselves and follow in their hero's footsteps.
- Bob Rugurika is the director of Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), the most popular independent radio station in Burundi. As an investigative journalist he is also a forerunner of the fight for freedom of expression in his country, willing to risk his life to expose the truth. With the RPA, he keeps on challenging the regime and becomes its enemy number one. Will Bob succeed in keeping the freedom of press, while independent media are being silenced and his life and family are being threatened?
- Herman and Marie, a couple in their fifties, arrive in Istanbul to pick up the luggage of their deceased son. In his backpack, Herman discovers a logbook of their son's last trip through Turkey. He convinces Marie to follow their son's footsteps, to see what he has seen.
- 50 years ago, the majority of African colonies gained independence from European powers. During the independence ceremony of the largest African colony, the Congo, a young man poses a brave act. He steals the sword of the white king, thus symbolically claiming the power. German photographer Robert Lebeck eternalized the incident in a single shot. 50 years later a film crew traverses the Congo in search of the sword and the man who stole it. They track down different suspects and hear amazing theories about the true meaning of the act. The quest finally leads to the heart of the rainforest, where their efforts are rewarded. Boyamba is a compelling and true whodunit that digs into African religion and the heritage of colonization.
- In 1972, Congolese-Belgian pop star Jack Roskam moved to Yugoslavia, where he met and married his Croatian wife. He became the guitarist of one of the most popular local rock bands, Galija. Tall, black, his hair in dreadlocks, Jack stood out on stage among his mostly Serbian band-mates. A confirmed pacifist, Jack had escaped service in the Belgium army, but when the war in Yugoslavia broke out, his convictions were sorely tested. The war forced him to exchange his Fender Stratocaster for a Kalashnikov and to fight in the Croatian army. Meanwhile, Bosnian filmmaker Sergej Kreso left the country during the war. After 15 years he comes back to take a tour with Jack, looking for the Galija members and the answers to his questions. This road movie portrays a country under reconstruction, filled with striking images of both the beauty and the scars.