TANIA TAPIA JAUREGUI

YO TAMBIEN QUIERO UNA PREGUNTA

23’40 - FRENCH - ENGLISH SUBTITLES

THIS FILM IS THE RESULT OF SIX YEARS OF RESEARCH AND CAREFUL OBSERVATION OF POLICE AND MILITARY VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA, MY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. IT IS BASED ON THE TESTIMONY OF OMAR, A FORMER POLICE OFFICER WHO EXPOSED ABUSES COMMITTED BY THE COLOMBIAN SECURITY FORCES (POLICE AND MILITARY). FORCED TO FLEE HIS COUNTRY AND SEEK REFUGE IN BELGIUM BECAUSE OF HIS DENUNCIATIONS, HE SPEAKS FROM A COMPLEX POSITION, AS HE REMAINS FASCINATED BY A CERTAIN FORM OF STATE VIOLENCE AND DOES NOT TRULY QUESTION ITS LEGITIMACY.

ANNA DOSSMANN

THÉORIE DU COMPLOT LESBO-QUEER

25’ - FRENCH - ENGLISH SUBTITLES

ANNA HAS A SUPERPOWER: EVER SINCE SHE CAME OUT, SHE SEES LESBIANS EVERYWHERE. HOWEVER, THIS POWER ISOLATES HER: SHE SEES LESBIANS WHERE OTHERS SEE NOTHING BUT FAR-FETCHED IDEAS. THAT IS HOW ANNA BECAME AWARE OF A VAST ANTI-LESBIAN CONSPIRACY WITHIN THE FILM INDUSTRY. SHE WORRIES THAT, IF NOTHING IS DONE, LESBIANS ARE DOOMED TO DISAPPEAR. ANNA MEETS WITNESSES AND GATHERS CLUES, BUT HOW CAN SHE FIGHT AGAINST THE ERASURE OF LESBIANS?

LUCILE STRIKE

RALENTIR LE MONDE

5’30 - ENGLISH - FRENCH SUBTITLES 

SHE LIES DOWN UPON MY BEING; I LOVE THE WEIGHT OF HER BODY. IN THE EARTH SHE DIGS, FROM MY BODY SHE DRAWS THE POISON, FROM MY BELLY I LET TORRENTS FLOW. SHE SINKS HER HANDS IN, CARESSES THE ROOTS, AND PULLS GENTLY UNTIL THEY SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. MY HEAD IS FILLED WITH WORDS THAT I TRY TO PASS FROM MY HAND TO HERS. IN THE FORESTS, IN THE MARSHES, STRETCHING OUT TIME.

FILM SURPRISE

15’ - SILENT

… IN WHICH THE FOCUS IS ON ELUSIVE BUBBLES FLOATING IN A SPACE BETWEEN DISAPPEARANCE AND BIRTH.

FAUST DURAND & LIANE VITTE 

100 GRAVATS

33’ - FRENCH

THIS DOCUMENTARY PHOTO-NOVEL TRAVERSES BRUSSELS THROUGH THE SPECULATIVE NARRATIVES OF FOUR RESIDENTS IMAGINING A POST-CAPITALIST CITY. DRAWN FROM LIVE-RECORDED WORKSHOPS, THEIR VOICES INTERACT WITH IMAGES FILMED IN PLACES WHERE OTHER WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHER ARE ALREADY TAKING SHAPE. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY AND FICTION, THE FILM EXPLORES DESIRES FOR THE FUTURE BY ROOTING THEM IN THE UTOPIAS OF THE PRESENT.

HUGO LAMPAERT

PLAN MANHATTAN

28’ - FRENCH

IN 1967, NATIONAL AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES DECIDED TO EXPROPRIATE A 53-HECTARE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN BRUSSELS AND DEMOLISH IT ENTIRELY IN ORDER TO BUILD A BUSINESS DISTRICT KNOWN AS ‘PLAN MANHATTAN’. 15,000 PEOPLE WERE EXPROPRIATED. ALMOST 60 YEARS LATER, A GROUP OF PEOPLE ENVISIONS A MEMORIAL IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO WERE EXPROPRIATED, THE BUILDINGS THAT WERE DEMOLISHED, AND THE BUSINESSES THAT WERE DESTROYED…