Belgian Docs | Atelier Dérives

On the net, Shahin crosses borders with just a click but in real life, his journey from Iran to Europe, turns out to be quite different.

As a letter to her son, the filmmaker testifies her experience as a photographer aboard the ship that rescued 29,523 people between 2016 and 2018.

Vanya, Sasha and Denis grew up together in Kyiv’s northern suburbs. This winter, their murky past dissolves, leaving them without any bearings.

After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, now suffering from Alzheimer’s. From Brussels to Tangiers, the odyssey of a family marked by exile is evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.

The director filmed last years of her grandparents, especially her grandmother who was suffering from a disturbing illness, Alzheimer’s.

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive.

Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence...

Hugues Le Paige made several films about François Mitterrand. Twenty years later, he revisits these images.

At Topaz, an outpatient palliative care unit, Stéphane , Laura, and Anne are trying to live out the last days.

Benoit Dervaux filmed the psychotherapeutic institution La Devinière that in 1976 opened its doors to 19 reputedly incurable children, rejected by all.

Young baker Jean-Luc, overwhelmed with work, has among his clients several unemployed people, who he takes time to listen to and advise.

Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna try to recount their own experiences of the armed struggle they joined in the mid seventies in Italy.