GUEST PROGRAM
In various situations, the four filmmakers from this program focus on their fellow human beings. They observe carefully, consciously frame things and thus question human behavior. Their films portray a diverse Brussels — sometimes intimate and voyeuristic, other times poetic or fictionalized. There is also a cautious political note throughout the humanism, which emphasizes the position of the filmmakers and camera.
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LES CHEVEUX COUPEZ
EMMANUEL MARRE
documentary, 25' (2009)
In various living rooms in Brussels, parents cut the crowns of their children. We witness intimate moments between toddlers who resist or completely surrender, and parents who want to succeed in their delicate task.
NETTOYER SCHAERBEEK
FARAH KASSEM
documentary, 19' (2017)
After the attacks in Paris in November 2015, the Belgian Minister of the Interior announced that he wanted to “clean up” the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek. Meanwhile, filmmaker Farah Kassem, a resident of Schaarbeek, notices unusual events outside her window. She decides to alert the authorities.
ENTRE-DEUX
OAN MOONENS
fiction, 18' (2020)
A fictional portrait of two boys on their way to the sports club after a long day at school. While they talk about anything and everything, they make their way through Brussels, a little blind to their surroundings on the bus, on the tram and on the road.
CARRY ON
MIERIËM COPPENS
documentary, 12' (2017)
A soundless film with silent and microscopic attention for a tired mass of waiting individuals whose struggle nevertheless sounds deafening.