FRANCE/TAÏWAN • 141′ a film by TSAï MING-LIANG A Taiwanese filmmaker makes a film based on the myth of Salomé at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. To give the film a chance at the box-office,[…]

BELGIUM  •  106′ a film by THOMAS DE THIER Life is slow in the Belgian town of Genappe, with its sugar refinery and clarification ponds full of rotting red beets. Migrating birds stop here to rest. A couple’s daily life is turned upside down when their young son dies. This story about the tragic event and its[…]

BELGIUM  •  103′ a film by BéNéDICTE LIéNARD A Piece of Sky” is a story about the struggles of female prisoners and factory workers. Hopping back and forth between the prison and the factory, the personal and the political, we witness the growing awareness of two women who refuse to buckle under the system. In so doing,[…]

ZIMBABWE  •  87′ a film by INGRID SINCLAIR The story begins in a small village in Rhodesia (which will became Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980 after years of civil war), when the war is hotting up. The life of two teenage girls are changed when the father of one of them is detained by the Rhodesians.[…]