Stanley Kubrick

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Payal Kapadia

Prabha, a Mumbai-based nurse, is thrown into confusion when her estranged husband suddenly seeks contact again. Meanwhile, her younger roommate Anu searches for a way to secretly give space to her new relationship.

Sean Baker

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

William Wyler

In this Oscar-winning role, Charlton Heston plays Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman from Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, revenge against his tormentors in a furious chariot race in the arena and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ.

Andrea Arnold

At the age of 12, Bailey lives with his brother Hunter and his father Bug, who is bringing them up alone in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn't have much time for them, busy as he is with his wedding plans and various schemes to make some easy money.

Jean Epstein

Jozef Van Wissem live soundtrack X The Fall of the House of Usher Dutch lutenist and guitarist Jozef Van Wissem creates a brand new soundtrack for the 1928 French horror film: The Fall of the House of Usher

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Mattias De Craene X The Holy Mountain Saxophonist Mattias De Craene creates a new soundtrack for cult classic The Holy Mountain

Blake Edwards

Elegant and eccentric, Holly Golightly lives off the gifts of gentlemen bewitched by her playgirl charm and searches Manhattan’s socialite circles for a millionaire to marry.

Michael Curtiz

- Capt. Louis Renault: What on earth brought you to Casablanca? - Rick Blaine: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.

Arnaud Demuynck, Annechien Strouven, Frits Standaert, Thomas Leclercq, Morgane Simon

5 short animated films directed by Annechien Strouven, Frits Standaert, Thomas Leclercq, Morgane Simon, Arnaud Demuynck.

Guan Hu

Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey together.

Bogdan Muresanu

On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.

Mohammad Rasoulof

Iman has just been promoted to investigating judge at Tehran's Revolutionary Court. His new position puts him, his wife and their three daughters under a magnifying glass. The pressure is on and Iman struggles with distrust and paranoia as political protests intensify across the country.

Rémi Chayé

1882, Saint-Pétersbourg. 

Harry Kümel

Valérie and Stefan, stranded in Ostend, stay off-season in a sprawling, abandoned hotel. The couple meet the disturbing Countess Bathory and her protégée Ilona, dark creatures of the night.

Agathe Riedinger

Liane, 19, reckless and incandescent, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus. Obsessed with beauty and fame, she sees in reality TV the possibility of being loved. Fate finally seems to smile on her when she is cast on the “Miracle Island” show.

Nicole Palo

Emma Peeters va avoir 35 ans et, dans sa vie, elle n’a rien fait de remarquable. Après des années de galère à Paris à essayer de devenir actrice, une idée l’enchante : elle décide de mettre fin à ses jours et fixe la date à la semaine suivante, le jour de son anniversaire.

Paolo Cognetti

This is not a film about how we can save the mountains. It’s about how the mountains could save us.

Gints Zilbalodis

A cat wakes up in a world flooded by water where all human life seems to have disappeared. He finds shelter on a boat with a group of other animals. But interacting with them proves to be an even greater challenge than overcoming his fear of water!

Nora Philippe

In 2015, with a baby under her arm, director Nora Philippe arrived in New York and discovered Barnard College, a prestigious university for women, in search of allies to renegotiate motherhood and feminism, and to think about the world in which her daughter would grow up.

Olivier Richard

Two films by Richard Olivier, “Marvin Gaye transit Ostend” and “Marchienne de vie”, interspersed with archive footage restored by SONUMA. Marvin Gaye transit Ostend, Richard Olivier BE, 29', 1981, VO EN ST FR

Vinko Tomičić Salinas

Martín, a 15-year-old shoeshine boy working the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, decides to steal his best customer's dog.

Gabriela Ruvalcaba

Do we belong to a place or does the place belong to us? Like an unravelling skein, this question unravels the thread of the film essay, passing through a series of relationships, from the link between the Tzotzil women and nature, to a reflection on his own work as a documentary filmmaker.

Tomás Guitérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío

Diego, a cultured homosexual on the fringes of society, lives in Havana and loves his country and its traditions very much. He meets David, a young straight university student and militant member of the Young Communists, who begins to have doubts about him, seeing him as a dissident.

Marco Panatonic

Atoqcha is looking for his future in Cusco, the nearest town. When he returns to visit his mother, who is still living alone in the mountains, his mother realises that he is not coming back. Months later, he and his sister return to their mother's grave, buried in the same house.

Yennifer Uribe Alzate

Sandra is a security guard in a shopping centre. One day, she meets a bus driver with whom she begins a relationship. As a single mother living with her teenage son, she questions her personal life and ventures off the beaten track.

The programme includes the following short films: Cola de León Sonia Franco / 2024 / 17 min / CO, FR

Paula Rodríguez Sickert

In Berlin, Margarita, a young Mapuche academic, discovers unpublished archives containing the testimonies of Mapuche prisoners expelled from their territories during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.

Cesar Diaz

1986. Maria, a Guatemalan revolutionary activist, is exiled in Mexico City where she continues her political action.

Karim Aïnouz

Ceará, north-east coast of Brazil. 30 degrees all year round. Every night, at the Motel Destino, dangerous games of desire, power and violence are played out behind closed doors. One night, the arrival of young Heraldo upsets the rules of the motel.

Tamara Uribe, Felipe Morgado

Following an unprecedented popular revolt, Chile decided to draft a new Constitution. A motley assembly was tasked with putting down on paper the Chilean people's dreams of dignity and social justice.

Guilherme Bacalhao

Alex, a failed musician, returns to the heart of the Minas Gerais hinterland to help his father, Lázaro, a sick guitarist who is trying to cure himself with Folia de Reis rituals.

Ana Endara

In Panama City, a Colombian immigrant working as a home help and hiding a secret forms an unexpectedly strong bond with a wealthy and determined businesswoman who is battling progressive senile dementia. 

Klaudia Reynicke

In the social and political chaos that reigns in Lima, Peru, in the summer of 1992, Lucía, Aurora and their mother, Elena, plan to leave for the United States. Saying goodbye means reconnecting with their father Carlos.

Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta

Ramiro, a music teacher in rural Argentina, is shocked to discover that planes are spraying pesticides near schools, endangering the health of his pupils.

Carine Tardieu

Sandra, a woman in her fifties with a strong urge for independence, finds herself, unwillingly, increasingly in contact with her neighbor and his two children. Against all odds, she gradually becomes attached to the family. But who is she to them? And who are they to her?

Kristina Dufková

It's back-to-school time. Ben thinks his classmates have changed. He'd like Claire to take an interest in him, but his weight makes him feel insecure. This school year will make them all grow up and realise that it's not what you look like that matters, but what you feel...

François Truffaut

Barely fourteen, Antoine Doinel has nothing but trouble, both at school and at home. He skips school with his friend René to avoid having to answer to his teacher, to whom he owes a punishment. In the street, he sees his mother in the arms of her lover.

Alexis Langlois

2055. Hyper-botoxed youtuber Steevyshady recounts the incandescent destiny of his idol, pop diva Mimi Madamour, from the height of her fame in 2005 to her descent into hell, precipitated by her love affair with punk icon Billie Kohler.

Nils Skapans, Julia Ocker, Jac Hamman

In the heart of London, Paddy MacPat and his musician friend Fred form a melodious duo to the delight of passers-by, until the day they are separated.

Christophe Hermans, Boris Tilquin

From 1967 to 1975, Eddy Merckx won everything, devoured everything and left nothing to his rivals. In less than a decade, he established himself as the absolute icon of world cycling. But by dint of his triumphs, the ‘Cannibal’ ended up dividing people.

Cesar Diaz

A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause.

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

Basel, a Palestinian activist, has been documenting the occupation and destruction of his village in the West Bank for 5 years. He is joined by Yuval, a young Israeli journalist.

Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper.

Paolo Sorrentino

Parthenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?

Luca Guadagnino

William Lee, an American expatriate in Mexico City, spends most of his days alone, with the exception of a few contacts with the small American community.

Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani

John D, a seventy-something living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur, is fascinated by his neighbour. She reminds him of his wild years on the Riviera in the 1960s. Back then, he was a spy in a promising but fast-changing world.

Manele Labidi

Amel is a colorful character. She is temperamental, ambitious for her two daughters, has high self-esteem and forms a passionate and explosive couple with Amor. Despite her financial difficulties, she's determined not to leave the uptown area.

Andres Veiel

She was an actress, an editor and a director. She created iconic images. She was close to the Nazi regime. Who was she? An opportunist? A manipulator? A visionary? Her personal archives, accessible for the first time, finally reveal her in all her complexity and ambiguity.

Thierry De Mey, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Since its creation in 1983, Rosas danst Rosas has been a staple in the Rosas repertoire. In his film, shot in 2002 at architect Henry Van de Velde's RITO school in Leuven, Thierry De Mey has created a fascinating cinematic interpretation of this ground-breaking performance.

Ariane Labed

De zussen July en September zijn onafscheidelijk, maar toch heel verschillend – September is beschermend en wantrouwend tegenover anderen, terwijl July openstaat voor en nieuwsgierig is naar de wereld.

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Working his way up from being a song and dance man to one of the top movie stars of the silent era, Don Lockwood finds his career in jeopardy with the advent of talkies.

Miwako Van Weyenberg

SOFT LEAVES tells the story of 11-year-old Yuna, played by newcomer Lill Berteloot. She lives with her father Julien (Geert Van Rampelberg), a high jump coach she gets on well with. When Julien has a serious fall and ends up in hospital, Yuna is on her own with her older brother Kai.

Albert Serra

Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge.

Brady Corbet

When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet fled post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their heritage and witness the birth of modern America, their lives were changed.

Roberto Minervini

Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the unchartered borderlands. As their mission ultimately changes course, the meaning behind their engagement begins to elude them.

Gia Coppola

Las Vegas showgirl Shelley is at a turning point in life when her show suddenly comes to an end after 30 years. A dancer in her fifties, she struggles to continue her career. The show and her work family were her life, at the expense of her relationship with her daughter.

Nora Fingscheidt

29-year-old Rona has been living in London for 10 years, where busy city life has consumed her. Alcohol and drugs take over, until she decides to put her physical and mental health first. To overcome her addictions once and for all, she returns to the Orkney Islands where she grew up.

Sean Penn

A retired police inspector sets out to catch the murderer of a young child. 35mm – Écran large procédé J-D-C – Fuji Color – Son digital stéréophonique immersif  

Mohammad Rasoulof

Iman has just been promoted to investigating judge at Tehran's Revolutionary Court. His new position puts him, his wife and their three daughters under a magnifying glass. The pressure is on and Iman struggles with distrust and paranoia as political protests intensify across the country.

Sam Peckinpah

In Texas in 1913, a group of old outlaws decide to try one last stunt by selling rifles stolen from the army to a corrupt Mexican general, taking advantage of the revolution shaking Mexico. Meanwhile, the traditional American West is gradually disappearing around them.

Teodora Ana Mihai

Natalia and Ginel leave their home in Romania to work as seasonal workers in Belgium. They go in search of a better life, but problems pile up. Disillusioned, they decide to take matters into their own hands.

Maura Delpero

In the heart of winter 1944, in a small mountain village in northern Italy, war is both distant and omnipresent. When a young soldier arrives, seeking refuge, the dynamics of the local schoolteacher's family are changed forever.