Country:Belgium

Director:Nicolas Provost

Summary:

The theme of this years festival, Parallel Universe, is creatively reflected in this film in which the filmmaker has taken a classic Japanese film by Kurosawa and recomposed the image though mirror symmetry creating astonishing and uncanny effects

Country:Belgium

Director:Marc Caro and Jean Pierre Jeunet

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

Belgian wizards Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a twilight world which proves to be another parable on the risks of exploiting a subjective world. In this port town lives circus strongman One, who wanders the alleys and waterfront dives looking for his baby brother, snatched from him by a mysterious gang preying upon children.

Country:Belgium

Director:Olivier Smolders

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

African born Olivier Smolders, well known for his surreal short films has finally completed his first feature. This is a kind of nocturnal nightmare about doubles and about motherhood, the latter approached not from its painful, religious side but from a pagan angle, proclaiming fertility and the regeneration of the species. It follows no chronological order, but there is a guiding thread. As in our own subjectivity, associations of ideas are but grist to the mill.

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Country:Belgium

Director:Marion Hansel

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

Adapted from Marc Durin-Valois' prize-winning novel Chamelle by Belgian director Hänsel, this is the beautiful and moving saga of a little family somewhere in Africa forced to leave home and struggle eastward across the desert with their livestock in search of water. Along the way they endure great loss, danger, cruelty, and heartbreak. This film dramatizes many of the demographic and human problems that face the African continent: drought, revolution, lawlessness, poverty.

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