Ginevra - take my hand

Monica and Domenico are a happy couple full of life: they laugh, travel, then get married. A premature birth stops everything. Fears, fragility, depression arise. But Ginevra, even if a wren, manages to grow. The camera guides us on her journey: she lives, and with her her parents. He grows, plays, creates. In his eyes, however, there is a secret, a widening fracture. No one sees her. In adolescence many questions, difficulties and pain. Only by retracing the past will the adult be able to give shape to the pain and find an answer.

灯火归途

13 Kilometers From The Tunnel

A group of first-year students who find themselves in the village of Luragarak. What at first seems like an ordinary visit quickly turns into a nightmare when mysterious deaths begin to occur in the village. As they try to understand what is happening, they become drawn into a dangerous story where fear, suspicion, and the boundaries of reality grow increasingly blurred. The deeper they go into the village’s secrets, the more they realize that getting out may be far more difficult than they ever expected.

Le Tableau

"You always cling to what you see, when you should seek to see the invisible. You stay on the surface of things. You should travel, dive back to the Stone Age. Can't you see anything ?"

Life in pink like in the movies

19 Super 8 film reels, bought in a second hand store, make a young filmmaker take a plunge into the past of an unknown family. He decides to give back this holy shrine, full of memories, to their legitimate owner. When confronted with reality, the image of a perfect family vanishes. This movie is both an ethical gesture and an interesting essay on the relationship between movie pictures and memory.

Mama'ku – Van Jakarta tot de Molukken

Mama’ku: During a trip to Indonesia, dancer Cheroney Pelupessy and her taciturn mother find a way together to come to terms with the mother’s repressed past, marked by migration, domestic violence, and intergenerational trauma. The new documentary by Sven Peetoom (Tussen Wal en Schip – Geruisloos Indisch).

La Réunification des deux Corées

Ward #7

While on night duty at a psychiatric clinic, student psychotherapist Andriy encounters a patient who knows more about him than he should.

Late Night at Video-Smart

A man working the late shift at the local video store has a strange encounter.

Richard Madeley: Inside the World's Mega Prison

Broadcaster Richard Madeley gains access inside one of the most controversial prisons in the world, El Salvador's Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo.

Director's Notes

Director’s Notes is a modular playlist exploring the ideas behind Carnets d’Amérique, a fictional film about an African writer visiting New York on a book tour, leading to adventures and encounters with collaborators, authorities, institutions, and libraries.