Delfine Bafort
In 2018, in a country that doesn't exist, Dago Cassandra, a small time crook, returns to his kingdom after fifteen years in exile, invested with a divine mission to kill the twelve apostles of Lucifer, represented by the pyramid of power - An extremely dangerous mission, especially when their is a price on your head.
A depiction of the urge for freedom. Through 4 episodes we see 4 family members in a moment when they are tired of being a camel, as a beast of burden. They realise their tasks are meaningless and find themselves in a spiritual desert. The camel wants to become a lion. A spirit that fights against the false values in order to find his own place, his own freedom. Vincent, Renée, Alice and Robin are searching for the strength to undergo this transformation.
A top model, Beckie, is on her way to a film location. When she enters the set, she discovers Mark and his team busy shooting a scene with a young model. In theirs early carreers Beckie and Mark were very close. Today, Beckie just returns from five years spent in Japan, and it is for her and Mark their first opportunity to meet again after all these years she spent abroad . Beckie seems full of hope, Marc does not look like being on the same page. It is quiet obvious that she and he have a dispute to settle, especially him. Throughout this day nothing happens as both pictured this reunion. Louisa, the young model, will also be a catalyst for all their moods. Who will win from this experience? Who will have been played by the other ? And for what purpose? This film talks about manipulations and lies. The ones that are told to others and those of whom one dwells. Illusions. Finally, does the end justify the means in this world where everything is only appearance?
Following a mysterious car accident in the desert, Dafne suffers from post-traumatic amnesia. Jake, the first person she sees when she regains consciousness, tells her he's her husband.
Arthur is a single dad, struggling with the care for his seven-year-old son Max and the combination of his secret life as a drag queen.
Two young lovers are making a journey through the desert, not specifically going anywhere, in search of freedom.She is very alive and energetic, continuously asking for his affection. He is quiet, mysterious and non-communicative.What starts as a time of paradise, slowly dissolves into a story of despair and the impossibility of love, as they drift apart from each other.
Caroline's identity has formed around youth, beauty and the world of fashion, which her life and career is centered around. On a lonesome journey along the Amalfi coast, she is confronted by Charlotte, whose youth forces her to revaluate the ideals she once held as important.
Kevin is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life. Mallory is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation. Kevin’s acceptance of this request causes uncomfortable self-reflection and changes the lens through which he views death.
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, DOUBLE TAKE traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images' inception to the present day.
Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of Hitchcock lookalikes, staggering in girth and exacting in attitude, in a quest to find the most accurate specimen.
A story about two struggling teenagers who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?
A pregnant woman and a man both wish to escape themselves, but they don’t want the other to leave. Failing to communicate with each other, they get lost in the big empty house they just bought, waiting for a new beginning. Love Drifts observes those times in which we look for meaning, the attempt to reconnect, reminisce and mourn about past lives and new ones…
