Dieter Diependaele

Biniam Girmay, a 17 year old promising cyclist from the African country Eritrea, dreams of one day riding the Tour de France, the most prestigious Grand Tour in the world. For years he thought the Tour was only for European or white cyclists, as over its more than 100 editions, only a handful of the participants were black. Biniam’s evolving performances give a rare insight into cycling in Africa. But to make it into an international Pro Team, Europe’s visa procedures are a constant hassle. And once he marries in Eritrea and becomes a father, the distance of 6.000kms takes its toll. Against all odds, Biniam climbs up the international rankings. When at age 21, he wins his first ‘Classic’, he proves African riders can win big races. He becomes a cycling hero overnight, but can he change cycling forever?

브뤼셀에서 건설노동자로 살고 있는 루마니아 출신의 스테판은 고향으로 휴가를 떠나기 전 정성껏 끓인 수프를 들고 가까운 지인들을 만나러 다닌다. 그러다가 우연히 이끼를 연구하는 중국계 여성 선태학자 슈시우와 만나게 되고, 숲속에서 깊은 교감의 순간을 경험한다.

Under the tutelage of commander Walter Van Dyck, young recruits of the Belgian Armed Forces receive their basic military training. By means of role-play, an image of their future as professional soldiers steadily appears. Echo meticulously documents this intentional metamorphosis, in which subjects are instructed in a new way of looking, listening and thinking.

Brahim is a young man, and secretly gay. At his mother’s birthday party, tensions around his unaccepted sexuality become unbearable. Brahim flees the oppressive family home into the night, where a terrible encounter awaits...

Why We Fight? is a cinematographic film that tries to understand the violence around us, but also within ourselves, in order to better cope with the world today.

브뤼셀의 어린 연인 빌리와 루카스는 변화의 소용돌이인 대학 생활을 하러 떠난다. 이들은 서로 또는 친구와 미래에 대한 환상, 관계에 대한 불확실성, 어른으로 하는 첫 생활이 대화의 주요 소재로 자리 잡는다. 모든 사랑(첫사랑)에 대한 이상 및 불확실성에 대해 그린 영화다.

While dancing, bees tell each other stories about the world around them. People also claim a role in those stories, sometimes very close and intimate, sometimes distant and on an industrial scale. Nina de Vroome's thoughts also swarm with the bees: from the smallest cell in a honeycomb to the global economy, her essayistic nature documentary Globes charts the bond between humans and bees. As accomplished storytellers, they both give shape to their lives under the sun.

Shot in the German countryside, Catskin is a mysterious and alluring portrait of Ludwig, a teenage boy who lives a simple life with his father, grandmother, and their cats.

After a long day at work, fiftyeight-year-old Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her nocturnal journey she finds herself compelled to ask for and give help to the other inhabitants of the night.

가사 도우미나 유모, 간병인으로 해외 취업을 계획하는 필리핀 여성들이 여기 교육센터로 모여든다. 깔끔하고 완벽한 가사 노동의 노하우는 기본이고, 외국어도 공부하고, 앞으로 당할 고난과 모멸을 예행연습하고 심지어 자살이나 성폭력을 예방하는 방법도 배운다. 는 오늘날 전 지구화된 가사 노동 시장의 가장 큰 공급처인 필리핀이 자국의 이주 여성 노동자를 어떻게 양성하고 양산하는지 그 시스템의 내부를 들여다본다. 시스템을 비판하기 위해서가 아니다. 영화의 초점은 아이러니하게도 장차 현대판 노예의 지위를 얻게 될 그녀들이 어떻게 자기 결정권을 가지고 자존을 지키며 자매애를 나누는지에 있다.

An unsettling look at a group of young people that seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight, while playing and getting high. Like dancing on the brink of an abyss that stares defiantly at you. A film that moves from being observational to being abstract and sensorial. The revelation of a unique talent. Precise, powerful, with a touch of techno.

전혀 다른 세 사람이 브뤼셀의 2016년 5월 벌어진 테러 이후의 삶을 겪어 나간다. 플랑드르 출신의 의사, 알제리 혈통의 젊은 남자 그리고 유럽 기관들의 중심부에서 근무하는 이탈리아계 여자가 이 세계에 드리운 어둠에 맞선다. 도시 전체에 감도는 하나의 질문은 이들의 삶에도 어렴풋이 밀려들기 시작한다. “우리는 여기서부터 어디로 향해야 하는가?”

Jimi, a young man living in the Brussels' neighbourhood Cité Modèle, tries to pass on a parcel to a local woman that was delivered to his apartment by mistake. When Jimi can't locate her, finding her becomes an obsession.

교도소에서 출소한 대니는 로랑스와 클라라 모녀가 운영하는 낡은 모텔에서 새 삶을 시작하게 되고 10대 소녀 클라라는 대니를 보며 감옥에 있는 아빠를 떠올리며 그에게 스스럼없이 다가간다. 소녀의 순수한 모습에 마음을 조금씩 여는 대니는 어느 날 클라라가 마약딜러로부터 강간을 당하는 모습을 뒤늦게 발견하고 클라라를 위해 복수를 준비하게 되는데...

Captured through a light microscope, Reclaiming Vision features a diverse cast of microorganisms, sampled from the brackish waters of the inner Oslo Fjord, alongside algae, cultivated at the University of Oslo. The film reveals various processes in the water that are hidden to the naked human eye. By investigating the brackish water, its inhabitants, its properties, and the traces left by human activities, the film is a reflection upon the relationship we humans have with our surroundings, especially through what we cannot see.

In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade. The stories of Chris Hedges, a former New York Times war correspondent, and Riccardo Privitera, arms and equipment dealer for the now-defunct Talisman Europe Ltd, provide an unusual and disturbing context for shocking revelations about the industry of war. While interviewing Privitera and Hedges for Grimonprez’s recently released feature Shadow World (2016), it became clear that the two men were describing the same anguish and trauma, but from paradoxical perspectives. One has dedicated his life to unmasking lies, while the other has built his life on them. Both their personal and political histories gradually reveal the depths of suffering and duplicity, showing that the arms trade is a symptom of a profound illness: greed.

영국 항공방위 산업체 BAE와 록히드 마틴사에 대한 조사를 통해 세계 최고위층 사이에 무기 거래가 어떻게 이루어지고, 이와 관련된 부정부패가 외교 정책에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 다룬 다큐멘터리. 나아가, 영화는 무기 거래가 현재 우리가 알고 있는 국제 안보정세와 끊임없이 계속되는 전쟁의 국면을 어떻게 변화시키며, 이 같은 무기들이 우리를 어떻게 공격하고 미래 기술을 얼마나 위협하는지에 대해 경고한다. (2016년 제13회 EBS국제다큐영화제)

Grands travaux is situated at the Institute Anneessens-Funck, a Dutch-speaking vocational school in the centre of Brussels where young students have come to learn an occupation. The film documents and stages that which gives shape to their lives: the practical assignments and classes at school, football, the ups and downs of their love lives, as well as the ongoing search for housing and employment. Depicting the daily life within the school walls, Grands travaux also aims at sketching an image of Brussels today, placing its youngsters at the very centre.

The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel.

Twin babies are separated at birth. The girl grows up in a middle-class environment, her brother in a street gang. Twelve years later, their paths cross again.

Stef moved to a new home, but there is another man in his home, Theo. Theo is the previous owner of the house, he died a few years ago. Stef seems to be the only one who can see him.

Herman and Marie, a couple in their fifties, arrive in Istanbul to pick up the luggage of their deceased son. In his backpack. Herman discovers a logbook of their son's trip through Turkey. Herman decides to reconstruct his son's last journey, to see what he has seen. He drags along his wife into a, what he believes to be, cathartic venture.

Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.

Some people are struggling to fit in, to go with the flow. Others are fighting to stand out. Who wants to be in a rat race that leaves no room for personality? The fact is: we never get any younger, no matter how much we buy the illusion. In the end there's only a painful cycle of disappointment. This is an accidental film. One scene led to another. A kind of story occurred.

Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.

A young girl Marie faces the troubles of growing up when her mother takes a new boyfriend home.

In 2004 Wim Vandekeybus shot a 52-minute feature based on his successful performance Blush. Carried by the music of David Eugene Edwards and Woven Hand and with texts by the Flemish author Peter Verhelst, Blush is a dazzling voyage swinging between the heavenly landscapes of Corsica and the slummiest depths of Brussels. It is an exploration of the savage subconscious, of mythical forests, of conflicting instincts, of imagination, where the body has reasons unknown to the mind. In dance sequences of attraction, confrontation and repulsion the performers take on animal metamorphoses…

A film about the things of life: girls, boys, scooters… Anyway, you know how it is.