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This new collection offers a unique insight into the oeuvre of Hong Sangsoo, one of the most acclaimed, prolific and inventive auteurs in contemporary cinema. The four films playfully explore variations on recurring narrative threads, blending humour with profound explorations of everyday life, psychology, and metaphysics.
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After winning awards and acclaim at film festivals around the world, Hair, Paper, Water... finally comes to Belgian cinemas this spring. This heartwarming, sensory gem of a film – about the loving transmission of language, traditional knowledge and everyday beauty from one generation to the next – will be shown in select theatres from 25 March. The directors will attend several screenings and engage with audiences in lively Q&As.
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In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
In a small village on the border of Vietnam and Laos, an elderly woman teaches her grandchildren the language and traditional knowledge of the Rục, an ethnic minority. This tactile, poetic documentary, filmed on grainy 16 mm, evokes a sense of quiet wonder.
A collective poem about the burning of home countries, about the fire and the smoke of armed conflict. A conversation with five women from different diasporas: about leaving… and (never) arriving. An ode to the displaced woman.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.
At a vocational school in Brussels, a couple of boys follow a training to become an electrician. The film documents and stages the lessons at school and their conversations about the future, love and work.
At a vocational school in Brussels, a couple of boys follow a training to become an electrician. The film documents and stages the lessons at school and their conversations about the future, love and work.
A cinematographic adaptation of the 1983 performance of the same name by dance company Rosas, which weaves together architecture, music and movement in a compelling and meticulous way.
A cinematographic adaptation of the 1983 performance of the same name by dance company Rosas, which weaves together architecture, music and movement in a compelling and meticulous way.
Caught in a dance, bees recount stories about the world around them. From the smallest cell in a honeycomb to the largest economy in the world, this essayistic nature documentary maps the bonds between man and bee.
While at the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee, a young film sales assistant, is abruptly fired by her boss due to unspecified “dishonesty”. When she meets Claire, a teacher with a Polaroid camera that may hold unusual powers, the two try to make sense of Manhee’s firing.
Film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day too early and meets young painter Yoon Heejung. They spend the day visiting her studio, drinking soju and meeting her friends, in a fragile game of attraction, until things turn sour. And then everything starts again.
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn’t show up, he wanders the city for three days, drinking and meeting a series of women, each day playing out like a variation of the last.
Accompanied by his daughter, film director Byungsoo visits an old friend in her four-storey building. After a phone call pulls Byungsoo away, he returns to the same place – only now it is a different time, and a higher floor.
A collective poem about the burning of home countries, about the fire and the smoke of armed conflict. A conversation with five women from different diasporas: about leaving… and (never) arriving. An ode to the displaced woman.
On the eve of a Roma wedding in France, a group of women gathers to talk about their dreams, traditions, and desires of freedom and self-expression. This intimate documentary moves to the rhythms of flamenco, while it explores questions of heritage, identity, and emancipation.
Hong Sangsoo is one of the most acclaimed, prolific and inventive auteurs in contemporary cinema. This collection offers a unique insight into his oeuvre, which playfully explores variations on recurring narrative threads, blending humour with profound explorations of everyday life, psychology, and metaphysics.
Images with the urgency of an Instagram story create a long-distance dialogue between family members across a sea: Mourad and Fairuz, Tunisia and abroad. A film about waiting, dangerous desires, and dreams.
In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.
Three highly original, lovingly and playfully crafted films spanning over fifteen years. Blending documentary and fiction, these films, like the blue garden cabin that gives the trilogy its title, form an intimate oeuvre as well as a fertile space of memory and imagination.
A fictitious nature documentary narrator takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian stone masons, passionate British geologists and people living on the lava fields of Fogo. A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions.
