Alain Dessauvage

A barbed love story in which a woman reads an intriguing advertisement in the newspaper: 'mn sks wmn to d fr'. Together they discover an all-encompassing love.

Léo y Rémi, de 13 años, son amigos de toda la vida. Hasta que un suceso impensable los separa. Léo se acerca entonces a Sophie, la madre de Rémi, para tratar de entender.

El final de una larga renovación del legendario Hotel Chelsea se anhela pero también se teme por parte de los artistas que aún viven allí. La película nos permite acceder a sus apartamentos y entrelaza el pasado con el presente.

When André, a 54-year-old truck driver, catches the homeless teenager Thierry in a burglary, an unusual but deep friendship develops between two wandering souls. Together they go in search of Thierry’s mother, who he has never known.

Cielo es una madre cuya hija adolescente es secuestrada en el norte de México. Cuando las autoridades no ofrecen apoyo para la búsqueda, Cielo toma el asunto en sus propias manos y se transforma de ama de casa en una militante vengativa.

A poetic and bittersweet codetta. Themes such as the craving for human contact and the impossibility to come together are central to this miniature piece.

Un cazador reformado se involucra en un juego mortal de gato y ratón cuando él y el sheriff local se dispusieron a rastrear a un asesino vicioso que pudo haber secuestrado a su hija hace años.

Basado en el libro de André Carl van der Merwe, Moffie (un término despectivo en afrikáans para un hombre gay) sigue la historia de Nicholas van der Swart: desde muy joven se da cuenta de que es diferente. Por más que lo intente, no puede estar a la altura de la imagen de macho que espera de él su familia, su herencia. A la edad de 19 años, es reclutado en el ejército sudafricano y encuentra cada sensibilidad ofendida por un sistema cercano a su desaparición, pero que todavía está en plena vigencia. Ambientada durante la guerra fronteriza de Sudáfrica contra el comunismo, esta es una historia muy esperada sobre el sufrimiento emocional y físico que padecen innumerables jóvenes.

Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds.

Lara, de 15 años, sueña con convertirse en bailarina. Con el apoyo de su padre, se lanza de lleno a esta búsqueda interminable. Pero su cuerpo no se doblega tan fácilmente a la disciplina que le impone, porque en realidad cuando nació era un niño.

Anna tries to protect her family, while a feeling of fear slowly creeps into their lives. The familiar becomes progressively strange...

Cuando Gino (Matthias Schoenaerts) conoce a Bénédicte ( Adèle Exarchopoulos), surge el amor a primera vista, apasionado e incondicional. Ella trabaja en el negocio familiar, pero su hobbie es conducir coches de carreras. Él es un chico normal y corriente que esconde un secreto que puede poner en peligro su vida y la de los que le rodean. Juntos tendrán que hacer frente a su turbulenta historia y contra el destino, la razón y sus propios miedos para salvar su amor.

A look at the lives of three generations of women. Monique and her daughter Sylvie run a brothel on the border of West Flanders and France. Eline, Sylvie's six-year-old daughter, is fascinated by the mysterious workplace of her mother and grandmother, but she is never allowed inside. A dramatic event turns their lives upside down and the family ties are put under pressure.

Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle.

A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.

A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...

Tras un infructuoso asalto a una casa, Dave se ve obligado a huir, dejando tras de sí a su hermano Kenneth, quien por no delatar a su hermano deberá pasar cuatro años en la cárcel. Al cabo de ese tiempo, Kenneth quiere retomar las cosas justo desde el lugar en que las dejó pero las cosas, inevitablemente, han cambiado: Sylvie, su novia, no quiere volverlo a ver y Dave ahora es un abstemio empecinado en volver al buen camino. Lo que ignora, además, es que Dave y Sylvie tienen algo más que esconder: ambos sueñan con una vida banal, honesta y ordenada en el seno de la cual podría incubarse su futura pequeña familia. (FILMAFFINITY)

Belgrade, 1999. People go in and out of cafés, and lively conversation echoes all around. As if no one expects the NATO bombings. As if they never even started. But there is tension nonetheless, behind the eyes of people who suppress their fear at any cost. It is in this time and place that Ana, Sloba and Bojan construct their own sense of normality in order to retain their sanity. Three ways to deal with fear. One random sky above.

She is a quick-tempered and feisty Turkish woman; he, a shy and reticent, young Flemish man. Their respective families hold strong – perhaps too strong – opinions on the imminent marriage, and, on the big day, chaos ensues, making the young couple question their own readiness to commit to a union for life. Are their backgrounds really so different to tear them apart?

Bart Geraedts es un niño de 13 años de edad, Él y su madre Gertie son estrictos que pertenecen a una religión Católica Romana, pero hay una mujer en el pueblo Moniek Verheije de origen belga,mujer con la cual descubrirá la magia del primer amor y la miseria de la primera perdida.

Bahoz tiene 19 años y vive rodeado de naturaleza y bellos paisajes. Todos los días se dirige a las montañas a cazar, aunque cobra muy pocas piezas. Pero hoy su vida cambiará para siempre

Kristi, a single mother, has to prove her innocence in a human trafficking case, since it appears that her illegal cleaning lady is not who she claims to be. Kristi is confronted with an impossible choice.

A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.

La tensión es palpable en el restaurante de Pascaline y Angelo, Brasserie Romantiek, en el Día de San Valentín. Mientras la noche de Paul y Roos va cuesta abajo, Walter está tratando de ligar con Sylvia. Y justo cuando la noche está en pleno apogeo, llega Frank, ex amante de Pascaline... (FILMAFFINITY)

Tras pasar varios años en la cárcel, Rudy se ha marcado dos objetivos claros: volver a trabajar reparando lavadoras y reconciliarse con su familia. A pesar de la ayuda y el apoyo de Denise, una peluquera jubilada, y de su amigo Rachid, los planes de Rudy son un fracaso. Cuando la reunión familiar parece estar por fin a punto de producirse, el pasado se cobra su factura y Rudy se ve obligado a tomar la decisión más difícil de su vida... (FILMAFFINITY)

Belen, a young woman from Murcia, grows up in a family of hysterical women. When her grandmother Marta passes away, a legacy issue emerges. The ex-husband of Marta, Fernando, appears to have built up a new life in Ghent and inherits a part of the capital. The family is furious and wants to get hold of the money while Belen tries to fight the hatred and travels to Ghent. Will she solve the issue or simply get to know better her grandfather? Belen searches for the truth about her family and about herself and discovers that wisdom lies in the art of acceptance.

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

Se centra en Jacky Vanmarsenille, un joven ganadero que entabla relación con un veterinario sin escrúpulos que le propone un pacto poco ortodoxo con un comerciante de ternera de la región flamenca del país. El asesinato de un policía federal y la confrontación con un oscuro secreto de su infancia, pondrán en marcha una cadena de acontecimientos de gran alcance.

Frits and Freddy Frateur are brothers who, after a confrontation with the white collar criminal Carlo Mus, kidnap his wife, Gina. The situation for the brothers goes from bad to worse as more and more people get involved, and all want a share of the ransom money.

Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?

Na Wewe is a 2010 Belgian short film directed by Ivan Goldschmidt, set in Burundi in 1994 or thereabouts. There is a civil war on, a genocidal conflict opposing Hutus and Tutsis. The film follows an attack by rebels of a minibus transporting ordinary passengers -- but who is a Hutu and who is a Tutsi? The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

In this frenzied tale about passionate affairs, vicious cycles and fresh blood, a disillusioned older woman is trying to hide her true nature from the young girl she is dating.

Cuatro amigas descubren un misterioso pueblo donde el tiempo parece haberse detenido en los últimos 200 años. El pueblo es gobernado con puño de hierro por "El Padre". Todos los niños han desaparecido y los habitantes continúan dormidos. ¿Conseguirán con la ayuda de un profesor brillante pero despistado y su atractivo ayudante, despertar de nuevo al pueblo y encontrar a los niños perdidos?

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.

This is a portrait of an old man who is kept locked up in the attic by his daughter with the excuse that outside it continuously rains. The man escapes in his imagination, carving wooden animals. Suddenly he realizes that the Flood is about to happen.

An office clerk with a hankering to tango enlists the support of a workplace colleague as he prepares for a date. It's Christmas time and the concept of giving assumes fairy tale proportions in this beguiling modern story.

Nicky breaks both of his feet, and asks his cousin Carlo to stand in for him during a footballmatch. But when Carlo is picked up on the day of the match, he gets in the wrong car.

On a cold winter evening a young manager gets stuck in traffic on his way home from work. He takes his brand new mobile to call his wife, not knowing that by doing so he is about to cause irreparable damage.

A young girl wakes up in the trunk of a car. This is not how she imagined her birthday...

A motorcyclist draws a red line in the middle of the desert. The line must never be broken, nor be passed.