A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker where a woman dances before being joined by a man and the two then dance together.
‘Rosa’ (1992) was filmed at the foyer of the Ghent Opera House, Belgium, which was undergoing a huge restoration at the time (1991).Read More »
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Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix)
RousseauWith winning merriment and generous clips, Frédéric Sojcher’s Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix) explores the oeuvre of three Belgian pioneers of outsider cinema (the U.S. counterpart might be Chris Smith’s American Movie). These dime-store DeMilles practice a cinema that’s home-made and a hundred percent hands-on. The 78-year-old Max Naveaux, for one, even develops all his own films in equipment he himself invented. Hiding behind no fig leaf of intellectual experimentation, Naveaux vigorously mines his beloved war film genre in such unsung and largely unseen features as Hell Patrol and Maquis Contra Gestapo.Read More »
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Marquise Berthe de Brabant got married to a French nobleman just before the beginning of World War I. Her husband gets severely injured in an attack against the Germans and hands over the bouquet of Berthe to a German officer, before dying without revealing his name. In turn, the German soldier gets injured and is sent to a military hospital, where Berthe is taking care of war victims. Unexpectedly he tells her everything. Will Berthe take revenge, or will she fulfill her duty as a nurse? (EFG)Read More »
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“A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood’s unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.”
– Written by Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival
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Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.Read More »
The entrancing love story of Billie and Lucas, a young Brussels couple. The film paints a candid portrait of the formative but also uncertain facets of every (first) love.Read More »
A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.
Amélie (Pauline Etienne) was born in Kansai but she is Belgian, unfortunate twist of fate as she stubbornly wants to become « a venerable Japanese writer ». So at the age of 20 Amelie leaves Belgium for Japan to realize her dream. There, to earn her living, she teaches french to Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese french culture enthusiast, as sweet and charming as he is sometimes impenetrable… Read More »
Freelance photographer Mark (Herman van Veen) gets an idea to create a picture novel, and he asks his friend Walter – who failed as a writer – to write a story with all the ingredients for a commercial success: sex, violence, car chases, women and gunfights…Read More »
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‘De komst van Joachim Stiller’ (= Dutch for ‘the coming of Joachim Stiller’) is a novel by the Flemish author Hubert Lampo from 1961.
‘Magical realism’ is this novel’s keyword, a style of writing Lampo excelled in. It deals with the intrusion of the unexplainable into common, everyday’s life. Setting up an atmosphere of tension and uneasiness as a consequence.
In 1976 Flemish producer Harry Kümel transferred ‘De komst van Joachim Stiller’ into a TV-series. Making them an instant hit in the low countries back then. A few decades later the Royal Belgian Film Institute incorporated Kümel’s work in a DVD-series about great Belgian films: it is the very DVD this site is about.Read More »