Flemish Documentaries

A female post office clerk in a dilapidated central post office, colleagues at a deserted train station and a group of firemen in the only fire station of the city. The stories of three state-owned institutions and their employees in DR Congo offer an authentic insight into their daily lives and survival in Kinshasa. A surprisingly poetic and empathetic look at a changing state in decline, as well as a mirror for the Western world. Learn More

The King of Mont Ventoux is a virtual race between 5 former winners of the legendary Mont Ventoux stages of the Tour de France. Learn More

Energetic Eric Kabongo, a young Congolese Belgian, dreams of a career in music. Using the alias "Krazy - E “, he tries to make a name for himself. His dream comes into conflict with the harsh reality and a past that haunts him.


“What about Eric?” travels through Eric’s mind, a place where dreams and reality meet and frustration can turn into anger in a second. A captivating portrait of an anti-hero at a crossroads in his life. The film won the Jury Award for Best Belgian Documentary at DOCVILLE 2014 and the Ensor for Best Documentary 2014.

A film by Lennart Stuyck en Ruben Vermeersch

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One night, when Brussels film maker Bernard Crutzen is driving home on his bike, he comes face to face with a fox. It is looking at him brutally as if to say "and you, what are you doing here in Brussels? Is this your kind of city?" The same question goes for the peregrine falcons, the toads in the fountains, the rattle snakes and the beetles in the capital. This film researches this co-existence between man and (wild) animal and asks at what distance we want to or should live from each other.

 

A movie by Bernard Crutzen

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feel my love is a compelling observation of human existence and paints an intimate portrait of life and growing old with dementia. For an entire year, the documentary follows the people who live together in Huis Perrekes (Oosterlo, Belgium) as they go about their daily lives and rituals, supported by each other and by their loved ones. Using music as a motif, this consciously light-hearted film looks at what is still there, not at what has been lost. feel my love is about love, letting go, wonder  and the human desire to be there until the very end. 

A film by Griet Teck 

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The American West. We have arrived in a world where human life would seem to be impossible: an arid, mythical landscape characterized by absence. Absence of water, trees, life. In the beginning there was nothing. But then traces start appearing.
Desert Haze tells the many-layered story of human presence in the American Desert. The traces of the past are like geological strata in the desert. The film becomes a mosaic of various stories, merging in a peculiar chronicle of America at the crossroads of present and past, myth and reality.
From astronauts preparing for future missions to Mars to Japanese country singers, archeologists hunting for the remnants of military test airplanes, the mysterious death of John Wayne...

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Mentally challenged criminals can not be held responsible for their actions. They do not belong in jail, but it is where they often end up, in the absence of an alternative. Without treatment and without perspective, their release date is December 31ste of the year 9999. Time loses all meaning here. “9999” takes you to a forgotten part of Belgium and looks some internees, languishing in the prison of Merksplas, straight in the eyes. A candid, intimate and often poignant portrait of people whose lives are stationary in time.

Special Mention, Visions du Réel, 2014

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Jean-Pierre Junior Bauwens, 23 years old and world champion in the lightweight junior category of boxing is a boy of few words who comes from a very special family. He is the oldest of 7 siblings, four of whom suffer from autism. He doesn’t just fight to win titles; he is fighting for a better future for his family. Boxing could be his ticket to buying them all a bigger house.  But then tragedy strikes. This film shows the tough clash between a loving family and cold reality.

Honourable Mention of the Jury, DOCVILLE, 2012
Best Action/Sport, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, 2013 
Winner Best International Short, Documentary Edge Festival, 2014

"This stunning documentary, reminiscent of Ken Loach’s social realist style, is a welcomed reminder of the power of documentary to capture real life stories in a raw and unmediated way." - Hot Docs

 

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Every Friday the inhabitants of Nabib Saleh, a village in Palestine, put on a protest march, which is then invariably torn apart by rubber bullets and tear gas. The official provocation for the protest dates back to 2009, when the local water source was occupied by the Israeli colony of Halamish, but the underlying reason is obviously the illegal construction of Israeli settlements. A few hundred meters down the road, people are preparing for sjabbat, the weekly day of rest. The contrast between both worlds results in a painfully tangible picture of this protracted conflict.

EXTRA:
THE TASTE OF FREEDOM
Jan Beddegenoodts / Belgium / 45 min / 2012 / D: English, Arabic / ST: English
For eight months Jan Beddegenoodts combined dance raves in Israel with protests in the Palestinian territories.

REVIEW:
“Thank God it’s Friday is a touching portrait of one of the hotspots in the Westbank. You will never get as close to the main obstacle to the Palestinian-Israeli contemporary peace process.” - Ludo Abicht

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The American Redwood Forest is a closed world that speaks to the imagination. It is made up of huge sequoias and houses several communities. A veil of high trees protects the forest and its inhabitants from the outside world. There are no Walmarts or Starbucks to be seen, the landscape is made up of small towns, tall trees and a thick fog. But urbanification threatens to disturb the peace. A musing look at a unique biotope threatening to be destroyed by the advance of the outside world.

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