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The Festival’s Memory

In 2008, the Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary. In each of the future yearly festivals, we will take a plunge into the thirty years of programming to bring up to the surface some films to be seen again or rediscovered.

Dinamite

In 1994, in Nuraxi Figus, Sardinia. Four hundred meters underground, the only light is that which comes from the lamps on their helmets, with the threat of dyna mite, a month with the miners on (...)

Prezydent

A retired and visionary worker passionately wishes to fight against the hunger in the world. After having considered a while soliciting the presidency of the country, he has decided to act with the modest means that are his (...)

Jean-Jacques

As seasons and events unfold in the village of Octeville- sur-Mer, the fi lmmaker describes the close and aff ectionate ties that have grown between the villagers and Jean-Jacques, a curious fellow who should in no way be likened to a (...)

Het is een schone dag geweest

For generations, the sons have run the family farm. But Willem retires without successor. As a last tribute "to his father who gave him his love of the land, and to his mother from whom he received his love for the cinema", Jos, the son, fi (...)

Cochon qui s’en dédit

A young farmer, with his feet in manure, and his life in a spiral of debt, shouts his anger, his wildest dreams and his phobias. He’s in the shit, right up to his neck.

Scastje

"In the mountains of the South, the sheep will soon have nothing left to browse on. The shepherd and his family will move down to the steppe. The grass is greener on the other side. Paradies lies there." (S. (...)
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