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.

READ MORE CINERGIE

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.

READ MORE CINERGIE

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?

READ MORE CINERGIE

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.

READ MORE CINERGIE

Nérina, a young author and illustrator, juggles her cashier job with her artistic creation. Working at the Comic Strip Museum in Brussels, and driven by the hope of being published one day, she faces invisibility. Surrounded by the great names of the ninth art, her dream slowly crumbles and gradually loses its magic.

READ MORE CINERGIE

Halfway between opéra bouffe, wildlife film and karaoke, Ver-Vert follows the journey of a parrot that was first welcomed in a convent to be taken by soldiers afterwards. The film, inspired by the poem of Jean-Baptiste Gresset, written in 1734, interweaves singing nuns with swearing sailors. Éléonore Saintagnan creates a playful yet cheeky mirror of our contradictions: faith and desire, rules and freedom, sacred and trivial. The film sings, swears and enchants.

READ MORE CINERGIE

In Brussels, the last habitable city of the planet, beer yeast spreads everywhere—even onto the film reel. Inside the cinema, people panic, philosophize and try to invent survival strategies. Absurd sci-fi and playful cinematic experiments turn this film into a living organism.

READ MORE CINERGIE