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- Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.
- Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.
- Follows Marieke Vervoot, a champion athlete suffering from reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The pain and incurability of this degenerative condition prompted Marieke to opt for euthanasia - a legal option for end-of-life care in Belgium.
- At the end of the world, three men face the southern sea and its dangers. They leave their families, brave the cold and the storms to meet isolated fishermen in the sadly famous islands of the far south of Chile.
- Wilfried refers to himself as 'king one-eye in the land of the blind'. This land lays in Merksplas' prison in Belgium and the blind are the internees who reside in the prison without treatment. Mentally ill criminals in Belgium are not held responsible for their actions but become separated from society. There criminal acts range from murder to stabbing fire of a bike. Due to the lack of places in psychiatric hospitals they end up in prison without any possibility for therapy nor end date. Their files mention as date of release: 31/12/9999. 9999 intertwines five different stories of these 'blind.' These men are waiting; for comfort, for hope, for freedom, for change. The time between their prison bars is altogether different from the time outside the prison walls. Time is annihilated. The only thing that remains is an eternal confrontation; a confrontation with their deeds and with their illness. There is nothing else. In this film we disappear, together with the characters in need of treatment, behind the inexorable closed doors. We wait side by side.
- Inside Mali's head, everything is dancing. She's a bgirl, 'breaking' her way from battle to battle. But she's looking for more. Only 14, she has moved to the big city, to live with her older sister. She lives close to her new school now, where dance is a major. But can this bgirl handle all the other dance styles? And will her body cope with the physical strain? The tough bgirl is also an insecure teenager, seeking to express her individuality, through dance.
- On the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship with her: a relationship that made him a free individual, as a man and as a filmmaker. The second night is the final part of a trilogy that began with Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter, which was followed by Dreaming films. The making of this " Cabin Trilogy" is the fruit of fifteen years of work and reflection.
- A short science documentary, searching for the lost island of Testerep in front of the Belgian coast, venturing into artificial landscapes and virtual realities.
- Particle physicists are now heading toward the wide open and unmapped field of the "unknown unknowns".
- 2013, the 100th edition of the Tour de France. But what if the greatest race of all times has yet not taken place? The King of Mont Ventoux pits five cycling heroes against each other during the Tour de France in an unprecedented race beyond the bounds of time. Crossing the verge of sports, the documentary explores the extraordinary evolution of competitive cycling over the last 40 years. Who will become the king of the Mont Ventoux ? Merckx, Bernard, Virenque, Pantani or Garate ?
- Romy has to say goodbye to her classmates because she's going to France. She's not going on holiday; she's going to France to work. Her family's traveling circus will set up camp in an amusement park for a few months. Romy's days are filled with activity. In addition to performing, she must also do homework and practice new circus tricks. Luckily, she also finds some time to relax. There's nothing that Romy and Quintin enjoy more than running around the amusement park after it has closed. In a letter to her classmates, Romy talks about the ups and downs of the life of a circus artist and her big dreams.
- 'I was raised by a Kurdish activist', filmmaker Nevine recounts. For the last 40 years her mother, Pervine Jamil, has been running her Kurdish Bureau in Brussels. Her main activity - still today at the age of 80 - is publishing her monthly newsletter, in which she communicates about the Kurdish struggle around the world. Nevine's childhood was dominated by her mother's dream of a free Kurdistan. Pervine inherited this dream from her father, Ekrem Cemil Pasha, one of the founders of the modern Kurdish movement. His grandfather was a pasha in Diyarbakir but after the fall of the Ottoman Empire their family was betrayed and exiled by Atatürk. Nevine's mother Pervine was raised in exile where she sacrificed her life for the Kurdish cause. Will she be the last in line of this dynasty to fight for their long-lasting family legacy? Will the burden of this legacy, passed on from generation to generation, fade with the filmmaker? Nevine's dilemma is emphasized when she gives birth, and a new generation is born.
- "Beyond the Ararat" is the story of a woman of Turkish origin who embarks on a journey to better understand what makes up her identity. A road movie which brings her from her childhood neighborhood in Brussels to Turkey and Armenia. A quest where each woman she encounters could be the reflection of herself. Entering the land of her ancestors, Anatolia, she questions her cultural heritage. Stopping in her grandmother's village, she discovers the "Agit"; an antique oral tradition where women sing for their dead. The songs open a potential space for mourning, where Turkish, Kurdish but also Armenian women missing from that land, can sing "together". The confrontation with the "missing" from her memory, brings her farther eastward in Anatolia to the foot of the Ararat Mountain, and beyond.
- Elephant's Dream is a portrait about three State-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo, providing insight into their daily lives and survival in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa.
- 12-year old Felix runs his own radio show: Radio Felix. Not only in his dreams: he reports daily on hot political issues and exciting tennis games, emerging from his own imagination. Actually, Felix has autism, which leads him sometimes into difficult situations at school. He uses Radio Felix as a tool to get a clearer view on his condition and to deal with the confrontations at school.
- Two old brothers are trying to get rich growing flax. They are hard and hardworking men, living in post-industrial Flanders-Belgium as if time stood still. While the brothers ignore the changing world around them, their rural village transforms and suburbia closes them in. And there is more: in the past, they have always pretended to be deaf to the subject of environmental licensees. But those days are gone. The local authorities want to shut down the flax mill and their habitat is in danger of being destroyed. Everything is about to change. Will the flax men adapt or disappear?
- Lost Down Memory Lane is the first author's documentary about living with Alzheimer's, seen exclusively through the eyes of people who suffer from it. Eight of them live together under constant supervision and care. They are all in the first phase of the disease: bouts of lucidity, forgetfulness and falling into oblivion constantly alternate. The patients live their lives, as long as they're capable. The film is a 'tranche de vie': a portrait of the daily coming and going of people in that particular and ditto state. It is also the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory from the characters. Eventually the characters will have changed. Because of their illness, they may have been disappeared completely, physically or mentally.
- Aiko, a 10-year old girl, is heading into town after the lock down, in search of new stories for her vlog. Amidst the sounds of the city, she hears music. Her curiosity leads to encounters all over the city with children expressing their feelings through music and rhythm. Together with her new friends, Aiko celebrates childhood on the rooftops of Brussels through music, singing, dancing and beat boxing. A multi-colored musical city trip.
- 2018–7.0 (6)TV EpisodeAntwerpen Centraal is a jewel in the "city of diamonds". Its gigantic dome reminds of the Pantheon in Rome. That is why it is named railway cathedral by the residents of the city. It is no coincidence that the palatial building was considered as the stony manifestation of the emerging colonial power. Even if King Leopold II referred to it as a "petite belle gare" ("a beautiful small station"). Wall to wall with the station lies Antwerp's green heart - the Zoological garden. Here the Okapis bear testimony to the claim of the Belgian Kingdom to be a world empire. In the 19th century one could admire here the first giraffes in Europe, brought from Congo through the Antwerp harbor, the elderly counterpart of the train station. Ships of big companies like Hapag Lloyd and Red Star Line used to anchor here. Around two million Europeans sailed away by the turn of the the 19th century, the new promised land, America. Antwerp has always been proud of its railway station. Author and director Jeremy JP Fekete is exploring the indivisible connection between the station and the city residents. He tells beautiful anecdotes, from the timid kiss of their first love on the station benches to the loss of a beloved teddy bear in the bustle of jostling travelers. While most of the people are just passengers, some Antwerpeners stay close to it their entire life, like the Jewish diamond manufacturers. That's is why this part of the city is called the "Jerusalem of the North". And that is why Antwerp is also called "City of the shining stones".
- 2018–7.2 (6)TV EpisodeA stone mountain rises in the middle of the city of Milan. It's train station Milano Centrale - has been built over 25 years and became a cathedral of travel. The monumental building is characterized by two eras: monarchy and fascism. Traces of these political systems can still be found at the end of track 21. Like the "sala reale" - the royal waiting room of the Savoy king. Taking a closer look one recognizes the signs of the subsequent rule of Benito Mussolini, a swastika taken in the wooden parquet of the waiting room. For a long time it was hidden under a huge carpet. Thanks to historians Milano Centrale remembers it's whole past. The station was created at a time when the Italian "Styles Liberty" came into vogue. He coined the art and architecture in Milan. But also, that of the casino in the neighboring San Pellegrino Terme. A gambling and pleasure temple of the Milanese bourgeoisie. The nouveau rich of the industrial age travelled by train and spent their time in cures and forbidden amusements. At that time a new design for modern necropolises blossomed in Italy. Author and director Jeremy JP Fekete discovers the Cimitero Monumentale, opened in 1866, near the sidings of the Milanese railway station. Allegorical death angels and grieving Marys combined the idea of a "city of the dead" in the middle of the "city of the living". Created as a necropolis for the Milanese bourgeoisie. Treasures from the railway time can be found in the Squadra Rialzo, the old mechanic workshop of the Milan station. Like old locomotives, still in use on the railway lines of the surrounding area which make the heart of every old and young train lover beat faster. Driving a locomotive became for some a philosophy of life.
- 2018–7.7 (7)TV EpisodeGustav Eiffel was already impressed by Budapest - the Hungarian capital of the former Danube monarchy. Even more when his office won the competition for the concourse of glass of the Nyugati Pályaudvar in 1874. With over 6000 square meters and 25 meters height it used to be the fifth biggest train station of the world, and for many years Europe's most modern one. Today the Austrian-Hungarian Train station cathedral is the only one that was barely modernized since her conception. Filmmaker Jeremy JP Fekete rummages in the almost forgotten corners of the old-worthy station: just like the majestic waiting room. Stuck in a deep slumber since around 100 years and awaiting rediscovery. Once a year its dusty rest is disturbed when the brilliant empress Sissi train departs Nyugati Pályaudvar station on the old rails in direction Gödöllö - to the favorite castle of the empress. A station in Budapest that rivals Nyugati Pályaudvar in age and beauty is the Keleti Pályaudvar, built years after it. Stone on stone, permeated by Hungarian national pride - as a counterpart to the imperial Nyugati Pályaudvar. From its platforms the MAV symphony orchestra would drive for decades throughout the entire country after the second World War Art to spread art and culture to the Magyars after World War 2. Today the orchestra plays in great concert venues of Europe. Completely in the hands of children there is the pioneer railway. A narrow-gauge railway that transports tourists and view-hungry inhabitants of Budapest to the top of the Szechenyi mountain since 1948. Engendered by a socialist education program for railway workers.
- 2018–7.6 (7)TV EpisodeOne of Europe's the most important train stations is also the youngest of Paris. In 1900 France's capital is preparing for the World Expo and is busy building: the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the bridge Alexandre III and the Gare d'Orsay. The railway company PLM seizes the opportunity to offers itself the Gare de Lyon - a proud magnificent building in the Belle-Epoque style. A monument of railway architecture with a 100-meter-long facade, decorated with allegories and a 64-meter-high clock tower. A copy of London's Big Ben. Inside the station a splendid restaurant, "Le Train Bleu". Two marble stairs lead to an impressive dining room ornate with 41 painting by 30 different artists - the elite painters of their time. They immortalized France's most beautiful landscapes. The PLM owned the biggest railway network in the world. With the Gare de Lyon it celebrated its own empire and showed off its luxurious image. Not far away from the station stands the Gare du Nord. Another stop of the "Train Bleu" carriages on their way to Cannes. Second oldest and biggest train station of Paris. 23 statues made by well-known sculptors decorate the 180 meters long facade. From Paris you also get to Nantes - home town of Jules Verne. Filmmaker Jeremy JP Fekete traveled to the city close to the Atlantic ocean to the big hangars of "Ile de Nantes", where a group of fantastic builders set up their workshop. There, where not so long-ago ships were built, now surprisingly alive-looking and impressively monumental mechanical animals are brought to life.
- 2018–6.8 (7)TV EpisodeThe station St Pancras is the symbol of the great "Railway-Mania" of the industrial age. It was built for the second World Expo of London in 1862. The needed ground for the construction was gained on the slum and church land next to St Pancras church. The dead in the cemetery were simply transferred to another resting place. The new building is a different kind of "cathedral" - made of cast iron and glass. Just the concourse with its 74 meters broad arc is a masterpiece of architecture. The church architect George Gilbert Scott, back then already a celebrity, won the competition of administration building and Midland hotel. The 38 rooms in the Chamber's Club, the lobby, the restaurants, the old Ladies' Smoking Room - back then the first in the world - and "The Grand Staircase" with its cascades of carpet let us enter an stranger, great time: the time if the initial opening 1873, the time where England ruled the world and Victoria was still empress of India. Train stations like St. Pancras in London are for followers of Steampunk real temples of their phantasies and dreams. Their elements are steam and gear driven mechanics, victorian clothing style with the corresponding values and adventure romanticism like in the worlds of H. G. Wells or Jules Verne. With this the steampunkers create their view on the future, like it could have happened in past times. Author and director Jeremy JP Fekete way to some of them lead to a former water pumping station from the victorian times. An unexpected contrast comes from the way St. Pancras is kept pigeon-free: through falcons.