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.

A amizade entre dois meninos de treze anos, Leo e Rémi, acaba de repente. Sem entender o que aconteceu, Léo procura Sophie, mãe de Rémi.

The end of an eight-year upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.

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.

A história de Cielo, uma mãe em busca de sua filha, sequestrada por um cartel criminoso no norte do México. Como as autoridades não dão apoio nas buscas, Cielo toma as rédeas da situação e se transforma em uma ativista vingadora.

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.

Um caçador aposentado vive isolado em um santuário de vida selvagem se envolve em um jogo mortal de gato e rato quando ele e o xerife local partem para rastrear um assassino cruel que pode ter sequestrado sua filha anos atrás.

Nicholas sabe há muito tempo que ele é diferente, que há nele algo vergonhoso e inaceitável que deve permanecer oculto, até negado. Mas o governo minoritário da África do Sul está envolvido em conflitos na fronteira angolana e todos os jovens brancos acima de 16 anos devem servir dois anos de serviço militar obrigatório para defender o regime do Apartheid e sua cultura de machismo racista e tóxica. O "perigo negro" é a ameaça real e atual; o que há de errado com Nicholas e outros como ele pode ser erradicado, tratado e curado como um câncer. Mas justamente quando o medo empurra Nicholas a aceitar horrores indescritíveis na esperança de permanecer invisível, um relacionamento terno com outro recruta se torna tão perigoso para eles quanto qualquer fogo inimigo.

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 (Victor Polster) é uma jovem menina trans de quinze anos. Seu maior sonho é tornar-se uma bailarina profissional e, com a ajuda do pai, busca uma nova escola de dança para desenvolver sua técnica. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

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

Quando Gigi, membro de uma gangue famosa, conhece a glamourosa piloto de carros de corrida Bibi, eles se apaixonam instantaneamente e tragicamente. Infelizmente, há duas coisas que se interpõem no seu caminho: Uma quadrilha com sede de assalto, e os policiais que se aproximam deles.

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...

Em um assalto planejado por dois irmãos, Dave e Kenneth, as coisas não saem como esperadas e um deles fica para trás. Quatro anos depois, Kenneth é solto da prisão e muita coisa mudou. Seu irmão, Dave, tenta fugir do seu passado criminoso ao mesmo tempo em que pretende ajudá-lo. Mas com o tempo, os dois se veem presos em um explosivo triângulo amoroso, onde Kenneth quer ter sua ex-namorada de volta.

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?

Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.

Young man Bahoz goes hunting in rural Kurdistan. He witnesses the rape of a young woman by an older man. He chases the man away and helps the woman to mend her clothes so she can conceal the rape from her family. That evening, Bahoz receives an unexpected visit...

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.

Pascaline tem quarenta anos e um restaurante. No dia dos namorados ela recebe uma surpreendente e ousada proposta de um amor do passado. Paralelamente, durante o jantar, a dona de casa Roos informa ao marido que tem um amante e a cinquentona Mia pensa em suicídio.

A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.

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.

O jovem criador de bois de Limburg, Jacky Vanmarsenille, é abordado por um veterinário sem escrúpulos para fazer uma negociata com um comerciante de carne de West-Flanders. Mas o assassinato de um policial federal, e um inesperado confronto com um misterioso segredo do passado de Jacky, deflagram uma cadeia de eventos de grande alcance. “Rundskop” é um emocionante drama sobre destino, inocência perdida e amizade, sobre crime e castigo, mas também sobre desejos conflitantes e a irreversibilidade do destino de um homem.

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.

Quatro meninas descobrem um antigo povoado onde tuda a gente dorme-se e tudos os meninos estam desaparecidos.

‘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.