Filmed over two years, the documentary reveals an artist who collaborated with Beyoncé, Madonna, and Marina Abramović. Blending opera, hip-hop, and musicals, Cherkaoui embraces his multiple identities: Arab, white, gay, vegan. A joyful yet intimate portrait of a creator for whom every work is political.

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Guangdong and his wife Baoyan devoted their lives to their gifted son’s musical career, student at the acclaimed Music Academy of Beijing. As he enrolls in the Conservatory of Tallinn, Estonia, they must face his absence. The film delicately explores the balance between caring and letting go, between pride and emptiness. Or how the couple finds a new meaning of life when hitherto they consecrated everything to the artistic success of their child.

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This sensory 16 mm film immerses us in a cassette and CD shop in Beirut. A tribute to the discreet carriers which fragile resistance allows works of art to continue to circulate and survive.

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For centuries women have designed spaces, built projects, and transformed architecture. Yet they remain largely invisible in official narratives. This film investigates: why this exclusion? Who organizes and perpetuates it? Through the voices and works of women architects, Out of the Picture explores the mechanisms of erasure at work within the profession. The film also questions the frameworks: those of history, the city, power, and image. It poses a central question: who is granted access to the frame?

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In the projection booth of CINEMATEK in Brussels, women’s voices emerge and tell their stories. On the preserved film reels, men have stripped, confined, watched, and killed countless women. Between horror and claustrophobia, cinema becomes a field of resistance.

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City-dweller Clara Beaudoux joins her uncle Michel, a farmer in the French region Beauce, to explore beauty in fields, machines, and gestures of daily life. This poetic and humorous road-trip builds an honest dialogue between two worlds while breaking down social snobbery.

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Filmmaker and visual artist Marion Guillard dives back into fifteen years of collected footage. Birds, American landscapes, family archives, memories of a body both hated and desired. A bulimia of images, of life. First fascinated, then saturated by her work as a wildlife filmmaker, she questions the frozen beauty imposed by images of nature, echoing the injunctions her own body has endured, marked by fatshaming. What do we do with images? And what do they do to us?

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Forsissies follows a feminist punk-electro band born in Brussels. Four friends, concerts that ignite, jams that explode: a film about the raw energy of creation and the power of the collective.

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What if one could post an ad to be replaced in one’s own life? Karina Beumer takes on the experiment, reshaping her daily reality with a Michel Gondry–like inventiveness. The responses she receives reveal stark realities: undocumented people seeking legal status, an unemployed woman dismissed as “too old”… Beneath the humor lies a political and poetic reflection on identity, creation, and the place each of us may – or may not – occupy in society.

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Sauf le passé takes viewers into the corridors of the Africa Museum in Tervuren, an institution burdened by a colonial history of violence and propaganda. Through the perspectives of guides and the groups they accompany, the film examines the tensions between colonial memory and contemporary narratives. Behind the renovated displays, a pressing question remains: can a museum be decolonized without decolonizing the gaze?

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