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20 Handshakes for Peace (Mahdi Fleifel, 2013)
20 Handshakes for Peace (Mahdi Fleifel, 2013)

    20 Handshakes for Peace

    Mahdi Fleifel, Germany, Palestine, 2013, 3’

    September 13, 1993: Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton’s handshake on the lawn of the White House after signing the Oslo Accords. A historic moment, repeated 20 times. Tainted by countless shattered hopes and with a voice-over by intellectual Edward Said, expressing his outrage at the agreement.

    The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Theo Panagopoulos, 2024)
    The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Theo Panagopoulos, 2024)
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    Reclaiming Archives

    21.05.2026
    Cinema ZED - Vesalius, Leuven

    “Reclaiming Archives” bundelt kortfilms van makers met wortels in Iran, Syrië, Irak en Palestina. Politiek-historische beelden, Google Maps en Palestijnse bloemen worden middelen van filmisch verzet. Hoe een handdruk tussen wereldleiders talloze levens verwoest en een gemanipuleerde videocaptatie van Ayatollah Ali Khamenei een alternatieve realiteit schetst: filmmakers herschrijven hun geschiedenis, en eisen een nieuwe toekomst op.

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    Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba (Razan AlSalah, 2017)
    Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba (Razan AlSalah, 2017)
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    Images in Fracture

    On “Reclaiming Archives”

    Arta Barzanji
    11.05.2026

    The opening gesture in 20 Handshakes for Peace (2014) by Mahdi Fleifel sets the terms for “Reclaiming Archives”, a programme in which images—official, historical, and digital—no longer function as stable records of the past. Instead, they appear as sites of staging, distortion, and loss. The films approach archives through their gaps and distortions. Found footage is shown as incomplete and shaped by the systems that produced it.

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    This film was part of yanco’s short film programme “Reclaiming Archives”

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    Snow Edge

    Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

    The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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    The Room

    Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1972, 11’

    A panning shot in a repeating full-circle movement shows a room as a succession of still lives: a chair, some fruit on a table, a collection of solitary, waiting objects. There is the presence of a young woman: filmmaker Chantal Akerman herself, sitting on the bed eating an apple.

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    Swollen Stigma

    Sarah Pucill, United Kingdom, 1998, 21’

    Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces, and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external.

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    Sylvia Kristel – Paris

    Manon de Boer, Belgium, 2003, 39’

    Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as a film about the impossibility of memory in relation to biography.

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    Empty House

    Gina Kim, South Korea, USA, 1999, 24’

    This video diary depicts a young woman’s flat, the fears and fantasies about her body plainly revealed as she wakes up with a bloated face, full of self-loathing after a night of compulsive over-eating.

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    elephantfish

    Meltse Van Coillie, Belgium, 2018, 27’

    A ship drifts in the middle of an endless sea. Aboard is a crew of five. They all cope with boredom — some by trying to overpower it; others by escaping into a parallel world guided by dreams.

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    Scum Mutation

    Ov, France, 2020, 10’

    In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

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    3723 km As the Crow Flies

    Oksana Luyssen, Ysé Auguste-Dormeuil, Belgium, 2024, 15’

    Obtaining official documents is a symbol of coveted freedom and security for migrants. But how do you navigate the administrative labyrinth? This film explores the relationship between identity, race, and European bureaucracy.

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