Agenda

Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter? stems from Johan Grimonprez’s visit to Papua New Guinea in 1986. Upon arrival in the village of Pepera, a local villager asked him, “Where is your helicopter?” Grimonprez later learned that a group of anthropologists had come to the village by helicopter in 1959, an event that left a lasting impression on the Indigenous people.

You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born follows a woman whose life is marked by loss, but in which she still finds humor and love. With a soundtrack that follows the period of Lenore’s life, from her birth in the 1970s to her death in the 2040s, the film takes us from poignant loss to deep joy and dark humor.

Almost a decade after her in 2022 crowned “best film of all time”, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman made the twelve-minute I’m Hungry, I’m Cold. In it, two young  chain-smoking Brussels girls run away from home, to Paris.

Passersby on Astor Place in New York City speak a silent language as they walk past the reflective surface of a storefront window. Heller wanted to capture the “unwritten choreography of the street,” the dance of glances.

Wolfgang Kolb, who passed away last year, studied film at INSAS in Brussels. For several years, he filmed the work of dancer and choreographer Roxane Huilmand as she collaborated with the Rosas dance company. Together with Huilmand, he created such works as Muurwerk (1987), in which he translates her choreography into cinematic language.

Branden, the graduation film by Brussels’ first city poet Lisette Ma Neza, is a collective poem about the fire and smoke of armed conflicts, which turn people into refugees. A poetic conversation with five different women about leaving the place where they were born, about never really arriving. An ode to the displaced woman.