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- A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
- From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
- Documentary about the hypothesis that HIV may have been caused by mass vaccination against Polio, in Congo, between 1957 and 1960.
- An in-depth account of two assassinations that occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017.
- Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, this doctor with an exceptional destiny now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.
- True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case built against him before and during this period by a young Spanish prosecutor, Carlos Castresana.
- Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination. Soon he would be Patrice Lumumba's right-hand man...
- How to live in a prison when you have to serve a long sentence. Six inmates express themselves before the camera, telling about their everyday experiences, their feelings, their hopes and distress. Six prisoners but also six human beings who try to retain their dignity.
- October 5, 1974: In the suburbs of Santiago, pregnant Carmen is badly injured and her partner Miguel, head of the resistance against Pinochet's dictatorship, is killed in combat. So begins a journey into the memories of the defeated...
- The film takes us from the mouth to the source of the second largest river basin in the world, that of the Congo River. All along its 4371 km, we discover places that have seen the turbulent history of this country
- Belgium 1960. A social regression decided by the government launches a wild strike among the workers.
- In the drama experienced by the Algerians during the "black decade", the children almost never had a voice. This film tries to give them. In a martyr village of the "Triangle of Death", children, survivors of a massacre which left them orphans, revealed themselves to be confronted with their anxieties and to consider the future. As part of a plastic art workshop, they collectively create a fresco under the direction of the painter Djamel Merbah. Little by little, through graphics and color, they manage to express their pain and their expectations and, helped by a psychologist, Latefa Belarouci, to find the words that liberate.
- A look at the everyday lives of maids.
- Join the train of progress. The small town of Datong is being transformed, following the path of the great Chinese history and nothing will stop the advance of power.
- A documentary allowing us to witness genuine conversations with people who know the date of their death.
- Moise Katumbi Chapwe is an Italian Sephardic Jew on his father's side and a Congolese on his mother's side. He is the Congolese personality who most strongly symbolizes African revival. He is a businessman controlling many compagnies and, since the first democratic elections of the RDC Congo, he is the gouvernor of Katanga, a region as big as France and a veritable treasure house of raw materials essential. For many Africans, he represents the new providential politician, capable of raising the Katangans out of their poverty, in the manner of the biblical Moses, whences he draws inspiration. Moise Katumbi is rich enough not to have to pillage his province, he regularly uses football and television to reinforce his popularity.
- In the small local school of Cheratte, a former mining town, 11-year old students with and immigrant background are coming to the end of their primary school education with Brigitte. She is a dynamic teacher whose particular pedagogical approach aims to give these pupils a firm foundation to build on in this constantly changing world.
- Depicts contemporary Iran at a turning point in its history, exposing both an extreme fundamentalism being fostered by its leadership and the seeds for change in its youth culture.
- A journey into the heart of Kinshasa, to discover healing churches, also called churches of awakening.
- They come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Eritrea. Accompanied by their parents, they have escaped from war and persecution. Forced out onto the roads, despite their tender years, these exiled children have had to face many perils as they try to reach Europe.
- In Abidjan, in full social mutation, we discover an Ivorian youth lacking benchmarks after the political and economic crises of recent years. We follow Rolex the Portuguese and his companions, young people in their daily activities, scam and small business to survive. They introduce us into the crazy nights of Abidjan and their whirling lives. Ages between 15 and 25 years old. Scam, sex, alcohol, fetish, sacrifice. For them, scamming the Europeans is collecting the colonial debt.
- Making-of of the documentary Congo river, au-delà des ténèbres (2005).
- Interview with Belgian filmmaker Thierry Michel about his most recent documentary Congo river, au-delà des ténèbres (2005).
- Toots Thielemans became an international legend in his lifetime. He is one of the last sacred monsters recognized and appreciated by all the communities that make up Belgium. Toots' popularity is certainly due to his warm and friendly nature. He has a taste for jokes, his laughter is appreciated and known by all. A self-made man, he realized the American dream: to succeed in the USA from scratch, arriving in 1952 in New York without a penny in his pocket. Success came quickly, as Toots is probably the only Belgian to have played with Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis. He gave the harmonica its letters of nobility, an instrument that was mainly used to liven up evenings by the fire in westerns. Toots is popular for all these reasons, but above all because of his nostalgic music..
- Two years in the life of a Belgian college, in Seraing, which tries to put back on track students with chaotic journeys, confronted with violence and social injustice.
- After his Moroccan friend commits suicide, Alain, a young Belgian in his thirties, decides to leave for Morocco to understand better who she actually was and reason why she took her life . Landing in Casablanca, he feels oppressed by the restless city and decides to travel southward. Traveling by bus, by taxi or hitch-hiking, he discovers a new land and new people but also himself...
- From her first productions made in the Gaumont workshop on Rue des Alouettes to her first feature films at Solax, in Fort-Lee, we follow the amazing life of Alice Guy, who according to her own words, "helped cinema to come into the world".
- In 1972, Boris Spassky, chess world champion met Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik for the chess world championship. But this was more than two men competing over a board. It was two countries, two political systems bitterly fighting one another. A history of chess and politics at the highest level.