Films
Blueberry Dreams
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium & Qatar / 2024 / World Premiere
Bye Bye Tiberias
Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.
Dance First
Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh's biopic on the life and works of the literary genius. The man behind the myth is portrayed with humour and irony.
James Marsh / United Kingdom, Hungary & Belgium / 2023
Grand Me
A 9-year-old Iranian girl plans to sue her parents after their bitter divorce in a lively and bittersweet film directed by her aunt. A lively contribution to the great Iranian tradition of films about the world of children.
Atiye Zare Arandi / Belgium & Iran / 2024 / World Premiere
Marching in the Dark
The widows come together to break the vicious cycle of debt and climate related chaos in Indian agriculture that has pushed their desperate husbands to kill themselves - and leave them with the debt. A powerful and compelling film about solidarity between sisters.
Kinshuk Surjan / Belgium, Netherlands & India / 2024 / World Premiere
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.
Johan Grimonprez / Belgium, France & Netherlands / 2024
The Black Garden
With cinematic brushstrokes and few words, a bleak story is told of three generations living in the shadow of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A brilliantly orchestrated study in how conflicts recreate themselves.
Alexis Pazoumian / France & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere
The Flats
A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.
Alessandra Celesia / France, United Kingdom, Ireland & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere
Two Suns + You, My, Omma, Mama + Lichens are the Way
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
SUPERFLEX , Laure Prouvost & Ondřej Vavrečka / Denmark, Marshall Islands, Belgium, France, Austria, Czech Republic & Slovakia