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Tag Archives: Belgium
From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom (1960) Paul Meyer, Brighella, Giuseppe Cerqua, Luigi Favotto

What was supposed to be a documentary to show the progressive nature of Belgium in regards to its immigration policy Read More »
The Living World (2003) Eugène Green, Christelle Prot, Alexis Loret, Adrien Michaux

An ogre keeps in his castle two children, whom he intends to eat. Read More »
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) Agnès Varda, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Read More »
Anchoress (1993) Chris Newby, Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox

In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary Read More »
The Misfortunates (2009) Felix van Groeningen, Kenneth Vanbaeden, Valentijn Dhaenens, Koen De Graeve, Wouter Hendrickx

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Read More »
Symptoms (1974) José Ramón Larraz, Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. Read More »
Appointment in Bray (1971) André Delvaux, Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. Read More »
Chloé (1996) Dennis Berry, Anna Karina, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Claude Adelin

After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Read More »
Komitas (1989) Don Askarian, Samvel Ovasapian, Margarita Woskanjan, Omig Saadetian

The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. Read More »