Opening Scenes
Games of “socialist” Monopoly were played in the Soviet Union: for the Hungarian version, called “Manage your money wisely”, the first to furnish an apartment would win the game. Four players meet...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
A man returns to Bamako, the city of his childhood, and perceives in the streets — fleeing like a shadow in the night — the face of what he was in the past: a lost child. His voice then...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Dennis and his filmmaker friend decide to join his parents in Tuscany where they are spending the summer holiday. Dennis is not in the best of moods. His past and his choices seem to loom over him, to...
International Feature Film Competition
A puma is stalking Pueblo Ranquel, an indigenous community settled in the northern Argentinian desert, in a modern camp built to accommodate them. As if to break free of their youth, some young boys...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer's is slowing her down. A...
International Feature Film Competition
Laosan stares at the lush vegetation that surrounds the village of the Akha–an ethnic group from China–where he lives with his family in the north of Laos. Is he thinking about the centennial legend...
Burning Lights International
The film begins and ends in a shopping centre in Hong Kong. We carefully observe the smooth movement of the escalators, the constant flow of people that never stops, the musical fountain that presides...
Burning Lights International
What is our relationship to our pets and why do people try to get as close as emotionally possible to them? Jonas Spriestersbach creates a series of unsettling vignettes that highlight some deeply...
Grand Angle
In Costa Rica, Panchita has just turned 109 and hopes for a visit from two of her children: Pablo, 93 years old, and Calixto, 88 years old. Sarita, who is 93, has no hesitation in confessing her love...
National Competition
The workers of a self-managed tea factory decide to go against the grain and play by their own rules. The problem is, how can you plan, work and survive in a world driven by ruthless competition? One...
International Feature Film Competition
Almost 50 years ago, women and men all over the word dreamed of changing the world. What is left today of the expectations and the hopes of the people that flooded the streets? Not much,...
Burning Lights International
Kate Woods and her brother Kemp are survivors. They could have been some of Jack Kerouac's Dharma bums or Ken Kesey's freaks or militants like Jerry Rubin. They probably have been all these things....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In Bolivia, in a small mountain village, the daily rhythm seems marked by a time that no longer exists, by nature's invisibles forces, by the will of the gods. In this place where there is no longer a...
National Competition
A young woman sorts her possessions, ready to leave the family home and to start her own, via the essential step of marriage. Julia Bünter settled in Cairo in 2015 to accompany, with her camera, three...
Latitudes
The Aviron Bayonnais is a rugby team having a streak of bad luck. Even though they fight relentlessly, they keep losing. One day, though, things change. Everything seems to be possible again. But will...
International Feature Film Competition
Hasankeyf, an antique city and archaeological site with over 12,000 years of rich history nestling in the valley of the Tigris River, in the Kurdish part of Turkey, is doomed to disappear beneath an...
Burning Lights International
“Four unaligned rows, 37 faces turned towards the camera lens. Autumn 1958, a family of Breton peasants in their Sunday best, gathered around the eldest. Smartly dressed for the photo. A modest living...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Semira Adamu arrived in Belgium in 1998 when she fled from Nigeria. Held in a closed detention centre next to Brussels Airport, she died smothered with a cushion during a sixth attempt at forced...
Special Screenings
“In Flanders fields the poppies grow between the crosses...” This poem by Canadian Lieutenant- Colonel John Mc Rae evokes one of the worst carnages of the Great War, which took place around Ypres....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
On the Moon, a group of men await the arrival of inhabitants of Planet Earth. In the meantime, they look after the idyllic forest that they have cultivated on lunar terrain– they water it, they...