Header

 A documentary film by Jean-François Delassus

Synopsis: Not everything has been said about “the war to end all wars”, about the story of this immense deception, this infinite waste. Far from it.
As World War I plunged entire armies into a previously unknown type of brutality and unprecedented suffering, it changed the very nature of war. Our aim is to attempt to explain the inexplicable: just how did tens of million of men put up with the incredibly harsh existence in the trenches for such a long period of time - four years - season after season, day after day and night after day? How did they deal with the prospect of death or almost certain injury when - unlike WW2 - they did not have a clear idea of why there were fighting?

Using the analysis of Annette Becker, one of the leading historians involved in this new historiographical trend, we want to provide a fresh view of this conflict, the scale, violence and all-encompassing nature of which both foreshadowed and caused the tragedies of the 20th century.

The film solely uses period archive footage put into colour by Digital Graphics.

A film produced by Program 33 (France), in corpoduction with Iota Production, France 2, France5, Planète, RTBF, CNC, ECPAD 

A documentary project by Carlos Rendon Zipagauta.

During the week, Luis Humbero Soriano is a teacher at the rural school in the neighbourhood of La Gloria.  Every Saturday, he gets up at dawn, washing his two donkeys Alpha and Bet, loads them with encycloapedias, school books, atlases, childrens' tales, universal literature, games, puzzles and puppets. For nearly three hours, Luis the lonely dreamer, will pass through dusty lanes, bushes and woods. Over the time, he talks tot he donkeys, telling them tales and reciting poetry.

A series of three documentaries by Jean-Michel Dijan, Jean-Marc Panis and Philippe Lavalette.

Used by more than 400 million people worldwide, French has become a universal language nourished by the sounds, rhythms and surprising lexical variations.  Since its emergence, in the 7th century, this child of Latin has been enriched by various cultures that make the language of Molière a terrain of shared imagination, but also of conservation and defensiveness...

A documentary project by Isabelle Achaval.

Synopsis:  This film is the story of several "one-way": mine and those of Fati, Clemente and Angelo. All four of us decided to leave our countries to live in Brussels.

A documentary by Tatiana de Perlinghi and Jacques Moriau.

Synopsis: Mésnil l'Eglise, a tiny village lots in heights of Famenne in Belgium. A village like a world. A world where old farmers and neo-rurals come together, traditions and ecological utopias. A world with an uncertain future, caught between agricultural decline, the extension of dormitory suburbs and futuristic projects. But this year in Mésnil, the renovation of the square will determine what the village will be tomorrow. Like a metaphor for this changing future, some people would like to change, embellish, open the square to the outside world. Others dread the change. "A Place in the Village" is a chronicle in four seasons of a changing village, where 50 children from very different backgrounds will have to find their place...    

Produced by Iota Production with the support of Belgium's French-speaking Community, in co-production with the RTBF and ARTE.

Looking for final financing. Shooting over one year started in July 2006.

52 min - HD and HDV - 16/9 

A documentary project by Alain Marcoen.

Synopsis: From ring to ring, from brother to brother, this film plunges into the world of boxing. It gives an impressionist portrait of men and women driven by this popular sport and reflects the life of a region.

Produced by Iota Production with the support of Belgium's French-speaking Community, co-produced by WIP and RTBF.

In production.

52 min - HD - 16/9 - colour 

A documentary project by François Ducat.

Synopsis: "North-South" looks at the relations between the developed and developing worlds through the prism of relationships between white men and black women on the Internet.

A documentary film by Khady Sylla and Charlie Van Damme 

Synopsis: "The monologue of a dumb woman" is all about the life of Amy, a female domestic in Senegal. The film focuses on the day-to-day slavery that she suffers working for her bosses. It also shows private scenes, when she is forced to return to the village, where she gives birth to her daughter. A combination of hope and a deadlock. Echoing her tale, the words of other domestics, the lament of the washerwomen and the resistance of the women in the shanty town in rue 11 in the medina. The anger of the slam artist Fatim Poulo Sy. Our anger. Like a polyphony.

A documentary by Sonia Pastecchi.

Synopsis: Emigrating means mourning the land that we were born in and which, once behind us, becomes a sacred place in our memory to which we are attached. My parents left their native village of Esanatoglia in Italy to come and work in Belgium in the fifties. For the past few years, new migrants from Europe and around the world are now coming to work in this prosperous part of Italy and are moving into the village. Starting from the story of one family, a polyphonic tale grows to illustrate this process or mourning and re-birth which, little by little, is deeply transforming our identity. I want to reach the emotions the viewers have lived and highlight this mourning of the motherland that touches us all to varying degrees.

Produced by Iota Production and Crescendo Films (France).  With the support of the French-speaking community of Belgium, Wallonie Image Production (WIP), CNC in co-production with the RTBF and ARTE. Currently looking for financing. Shooting from June 2006. In post-production.

52 min - HD - 16/9 - 2007. 

 A film by Laure Delesalle

Synopsis: It has been said that it is an “abyss”. This is the first time in the history of the world economy that the American budget and trade deficit has been so big. Curiously, the United States, the world’s richest country, is the one that owes the most money to the rest of the world.