An impressive palace, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels. Now renovated, it has been renamed the Africa Museum.A voice out of Africa echoes throughout its halls...It tells us of the…
They just arrived in Belgium. New immigrants from Syria, Irak, Morocco... who will have to participate in a mandatory integration program in Flanders, called « inburgering ». To obtain their…
Frankie in front of the mock-up of "Daphné", Lydie struggling with the hem of a costume from "Jenufa", Kornell discussing with his double bass in the pit, Gina on the make-up of "Rigoletto",…
One year spent in the daily life of some Japanese families in Minamisoma, at 20 km from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. After efforts of decontamination, scientific…
8 episodes x 8' THE MAN WHO PROTECTS THE TREES A STRANGE MICROBE MADE IN FUKUSHIMA THE OCTOPUS FUKUSHIMA, THE ISLAND OF HAPPINESS THE BIG QUESTION THE CHALLENGE THE LAST CHANCE Today…
From Macao to London, Geneva and Shanghai, this dectective story into a hermetic and secret world investigates what is bound to become a scandal of international proportions. 2011 has marked a…
Considered the oldest job in the world, prostitution has always remained an “obscure object of hate and desire”. Since, what is known as Sarkozy law was passed in 2003, both women and men have…
Ghislain Libart, the Lumberman : This lumberman from the Ardennes is aiming for the skies with his trees. On the surface he is practicing a traditional, old-fashioned profession, but he has…
Gilbert Dufour, a young Swiss expatriated in Equator, shows all the signs of a professional and familial success. In May 2006, his life changes radically. He is accused by the police of Quito of…
The film is a portrait of a complex and outstanding person. A 31 year-old-man, who is a real chameleon, slides into the skin of a 15 year-old-teenager in order to go back to school. What is his…
The film tells the moving story of an Iranian woman and her two daughters on the run for their violent husband and father. A people smuggler takes them on a dangerous journey trough the marshlands…
“Le Petit Château”, in the heart of Brussels, place full of promises which welcome candidates seeking refugee status in Belgium. The hundreds of people languishing within its walls have begun…
The film CHINA, THE NEW EMPIRE presents, for the first time, a global picture of one century in the history of this country, from the Opium War until the forthcoming appointment of Xi Jinping as…
25 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, we have forgotten the danger of nuclear power. The consequences of this disaster are still not controlled. The latest circumstances in Japan show that up…
A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation’s nightmare. Based on his intense and personal memories, Christoph Bohn tells the story of the unknown German…
This film is about one of the noblest enterprises mankind ever undertook : to civilize war by imposing rules on it : the Geneva Conventions. But is it possible to civilize war ? This film will…
For six months in 1919, Paris was the capital of the world. The last shots had just been fired in the most devastating war of all time — and the old global order lay in tatters. Delegations from…
The author, born from a clandestine mixed relationship and adopted by a Belgian family at the age of thirteen, started a quest to find his biological parents. Not only being a search for…
Ploegstraat, January 2000. A tractor brought to the surface the bones of a soldier who disappeared during the First World War. Patrick, an amateur archaeologist, identified the corpse : it appears…
Everything started in the summer of 1830, with the opening night of an opera which fanned the flames of revolution and the enthusiasm of the Flemish and the Walloons to fight against the authority…
This film shows the concrete action of the tribunal and evokes its daily problems by allowing both magistrates and victims to talk. They come from Srebrenica, Brcko or Prijedor... What is genocide…
In 1954, the ethnologist and filmmaker Luc de Heusch shot a film in Rwanda, illustrating the traditional relationship between Tutsi herdsmen and Hutu farmers in this ancient Central African…
The film portrays war and terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of children. It moves between the painfull memories of the director, still a child in the 1960' during the Algerian War and that of…
PLANT WARS - series 1 to 3 - 3x52' Since the beginning of time, human beings all over the world have made use of plants for healing purposes. These three documentaries tell the story of medicinal…
Situated at the intersection of economic interests and political decision, lobbying intrigues as much as it fascinates. It seems mysterious, and for that reason contributes to all sorts of…
World governments are all turning a blind eye to events occurring in Russia today. Muted silence and vague gesticulations are their only response. However, their attitude changes when negotiations…
The world is changing and Europe is in a state of crisis. At the top of it, José Manuel Barroso, The President of the European Commission. He has one of the most difficult jobs in the world…
Starving on a gold mining : Congo illustrated by one single city. Kamituga, a mining city in the East of Congo, symbolizes the tragedy of the country's economic history. Plundered facilities,…
Film directed by Luc de Heusch using images shot by Henri Storck between 1974 and 1992 in Super 8 for his own pleasure. Credits Author and Director : Luc de Heusch Image : Henri Storck Sound…
A filmmaker attempts to immerse himself and his team in the incandescent universe of Port-Royal and Jansenism. Baroque readings, landscapes, interviews, little by little the historical quest…
Vincent is forty years old. Haunted by the figure of Schubert, this cultured and fragile homosexual embarks, with his godson Itvan, on a final beautiful journey : His Winter Journey (Voyage…
"What I wish, is a man. I do not want thousands of them, but just one, but the good one. Is it so hard to get?". The short film narrates a meeting between a young woman and her psychiatrist,…
This documentary film draws, with a lot of love and tenderness, the portrait of a young Danish woman in the 1960-70s. Her name was Anne-Marie Sikker Hansen. She accidentally died when her daughter,…
Fanny Gaïda, a ballerina of the Opera de Paris, was filmed during the last year of her career by her childhood friend and filmmaker Mathilde Mignon. The chosen ballets are those in which the…
Paul is a truck. Georges is a truck. The young man is a hitchhiker. He travels with Paul. The hitchhiker is a young woman. She is on the road with Georges. Spatters... contorted voices with…
Thirty years ago, the little village of Moulbaix and its 500 residents, in the Ath Region (Western Hainaut) hosted Luc de Heusch and his team, who came to film their work, hobbies and their passion…
Edward J. Steichen is a world-known photographer. A U.S. immigrant when he was 18 months old, he takes his first photo in 1895, at the age of 16. On the banks of Lake Michigan, he dreams to lead…
The film-maker and ethnologist Luc de Heusch met James Ensor, the famous painter from Ostend, shortly after the war in his house in Ostend, currently called the “Ensor Museum”. James Ensor was…
“Dogulls fly away for a reason?” “Why are we here?” “I think therefore I Am” but why? Thanks to his questioning of the world, the ethnologist and film-maker, Luc de Heusch allows us…
Beyond cultures and religions, pilgrimages represent an important time in the inner lives of believers. This series of three documentary films is dedicated to them. It is centred around three…
Nouville in the bay of Nouméa, New Caledonia. Over there, the French prison and the psychiatric hospital have been surrounded by water. Today, Nouville is linked to Nouméa through a dyke and…
In 1954, during an ethnographic mission in Belgian Congo, Luc de Heusch fitted with a small Bell & Howelle camera and with one of the first magnetic ring sound recorder, filmed the daily ceremonial…
February 2004. Eight European women, mothers with children, want to conquer the highest summit of the America's : the 7000 meters Mount Aconcagua. But it’s not an all-day dream. All these…
Gas Station takes you on a world trip and tells its tale from the confines of small gas stations ; a concept that acts mainly as a tool to connect stories and to discover different lifestyles,…
