A funny, political and collective fable where documentary and fiction intertwine to question who has the right to tell stories — and how.

Franco-Beninese actor Tom Adjibi is tired of playing characters reduced to his skin colour. Together with other racialised people, he sets out to invent another way of telling their stories. But his project soon unravels. Playing a naïve director, he blurs documentary and fiction. With a nod to Magritte, Ceci n’est pas un film français turns representation, power and colonial legacy into a sharp, fiercely funny political fable.

PRECEDED BY L’ATTAQUE DE LA FEMME DE 50 PIEDS

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In Tripoli, Lebanon, an unfinished dome designed by architect Niemeyer becomes a strange chamber for musical echoes.

In 1975, war interrupted the construction of a dome designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli. The unfinished concrete structure was left behind with an exceptional acoustic. For five days, Firas El Hallak invited musicians to experiment with this unique space. Their performances form a musical film in which the history of Tripoli and the traces of a modernist project shattered by violence resonate.

With CINEMAMED & BAFF – Beirut Art Film Festival

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An unusual encounter between a father engraver and a daughter filmmaker.

Marie-Ève De Grave takes the road in her Citroën 2CV Fourgonnette, returning to the places of her childhood in search of the father she barely knew: an artist whose engravings and wartime diary reveal more than he ever did in life. Alongside her own son, she pieces together his portrait through traces, fragments and absences, while a cardboard figure of her enigmatic father becomes an unexpected companion. A film about memory, family and what is passed on from one generation to the next.

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A political and cinematic diary of exile, where images become a weapon against erasure.

In 2018, C.P., a Vietnamese independent filmmaker committed to democracy, is forced to flee his country after being tortured. A long exile begins: five years without papers in Thailand, followed by Europe, where the freedom he had hoped for collides with other forms of control and precarity. To trace C.P.’s journey, his friend, another filmmaker who works under the pseudonym Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos to protect their anonymity, creates a collage of images, combining their own footage with fragments of films, colonial archives, propaganda and political cinema. Images blur, deteriorate and overlap; even memories seem threatened with erasure. Blending personal diary, essay film and collage, Unerasable! turns exile into an act of resistance against erasure.

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The incandescent life of dancer Jorge Donn, between creation, love and power.

At sixteen, Jorge Donn leaves Argentina for Brussels, where he becomes Maurice Béjart’s favourite dancer and lover. Through previously unseen archive footage, the film portrays a flamboyant and vulnerable artist while taking a fresh look at the power dynamics that shaped his relationship with Béjart.

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A dive into the archive of filmmaker Chris Marker, in search of the man behind the images.

Guidée par la voix de Charlotte Rampling, une archiviste se plonge dans les 550 cartons laissés par le cinéaste Chris Marker. Photographies, écrits, documents personnels, fragments de films : elle rassemble ces traces pour tenter de reconstituer le portrait d’un cinéaste qui a toujours cultivé le mystère autour de sa vie et de son identité.
Mais les archives ne livrent jamais une histoire toute faite. Les extraits de La Jetée, Sans Soleil et d’autres films de Marker sont repris, remontés et confrontés à ses documents personnels. Peu à peu, les fragments se répondent, les souvenirs se déplacent et le portrait se transforme.
Brecht Debackere fait de cette enquête une plongée dans l’univers de Marker, où les archives deviennent un espace de mémoire en mouvement et les films, des machines à remonter le temps.

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