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...
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...
Rosita is a cheerful woman with an eager desire to have children. Those around her think it is irresponsible because she can barely take care of herself. When Rosita does become pregnant, she decides to keep it a secret.
In a world where men hide their true love and feelings, where a mother turns a blind eye to her son's identity, and where religion dictates that a man may only lie with a woman — is everything we see truly what it seems to be? The latest release from New Queer Visions takes a look at...
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...
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...
A story about two struggling people 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...
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.
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.
Compilation of 4 gay-themed short films by director Anthony Schatteman: [1] Petit ami (2017) … [2] Kiss Me Softly (2012) … [3] Hello, Stranger (2016) … [4] Follow Me (2015).
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...
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...
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...
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.
