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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively, whose sibling-like bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent...
2) Violette
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Violette LeDuc is one of the foremost French writers of the twentieth century. In a beautifully mounted production, director Martin Provost depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship...
3) Raw
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
In Justine's family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. Sixteen-years-old, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. Justine is forced to eat raw meat. It is the first time in her life she has eaten meat of any kind. The consequences quickly make themselves felt, and Justine discovers her true nature.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
A stop-motion animated film about toys come to life, based on the Belgian television series with the same title. Cowboy and Indian give Horse a homemade brick barbecue for his birthday, but too many bricks arrive and they destroy their house. Surreal adventures follow as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra, and discovers a parallel underwater universe where dishonest creatures live. With panic a permanent feature...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Nederlands
Description
Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning...
Series
Criterion collection volume 771
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
8) Ben X
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Nederlands
Description
Ben is different. His life is full of strange rituals and a mild form of autism prevents normal communications with others.
9) Bullhead
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.
10) In Syria
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, a mother of three turns her flat into a safe fortress for her family and neighbours in an attempt to protect them from the war outside.
11) L'iceberg
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
The manager of a fast food restaurant is locked inside the work freezer. When she is rescued the next day, she returns home to find her family didn't even know she was missing. Now obsessed with all things cold, she drops everything to see an iceberg.
Series
Criterion collection volume 165
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
A charming, poetry-reciting, philosophizing homidical maniac's actions are recorded by a film crew. Simultaneously repelled and fascinated, the filmmakers find themselves drawn into the hitman's murderous activities.
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on.
15) Time of my life
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Thomas and Mario are friends for life. Lynn is the girl they both love and Speck the loose cannon who is the fourth wheel to their wagon. Mario is a fiercely ambitious young man with big plans for an exciting future. Just when his political career is about to get under stream, he is suddenly diagnosed with a disease that changes the course of his life. Based on a true story, this is the journey of a combative Multiple Sclerosis patient and the group...
16) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners.
17) Our children
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Murielle and Mounir fall in love and have children, as so many couples do. Unlike other couples, however, they give over the control of their family by living with Mounir's rich adoptive father. It seems as if everything is going well, but underneath it all, Murielle is suffocating.
18) I kill giants
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbara is the only thing that stands between terrible giants and the destruction of her small town. But as she boldly confronts her fears in increasingly dangerous ways, she begins to question everything she's always believed to be true.
19) Illegal
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son.
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