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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

Enzo Smits, Belgium, 2014, 19’

A portrait of young skateboarders growing up in a Flemish suburban town. We meet different characters going through their daily routines: riding around on their skateboards, waiting, hanging out, daydreaming... They fantasize about going away, but wouldn’t know where to. The images on their TV screens serve as a gateway, just like the posters on their bedroom walls. The film is a personal retrospect on adolescence, told through accidental encounters, trivial moments and reenactments of memories.

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Enzo Smits, 2014)
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Enzo Smits, 2014)
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Absent but Present

Enzo Smits’s All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

Hanne Schelstraete
20.11.2022

Those moments between a first date and kiss, between a goodbye and a funeral, between a final exam and a proclamation are seemingly empty. With All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Enzo Smits zooms in on this idea. What he finds is a beauty that is not easily discovered. Rather than a clear narrative structure, Smits’ debut film presents itself as a stream of impressions. A group of friends pass time together. They talk, walk, and play video games. They stare into nothingness and wander off. What are they waiting for? The first days of school? A taxi? The dawn of their adulthood? In the background, a clock is ticking while one of the boys prepares a cup of tea. Time is slipping by, but nobody’s in a hurry. Growing up is a lesson in patience.

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Credits

Script
Enzo Smits
Camera
Grimm Vandekerckhove
Editor
Thomas Pooters
Sound
Kwinten Van Laethem
Film school
LUCA School of Arts, Sint-Lukas Brussel
Producer
Enzo Smits
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documentary coming-of-age portrait

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Jorn Plucieniczak, Belgium, 2019, 26’

Symen and Sam pass their time in the monotony of a post-industrial suburb. They seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight countered by the invisible presence of ‘hardcore’. While gaming, they end up searching for the core of their desires.

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Carnations

Martijn Van de Wiele, Belgium, 2021, 16’

An artificial summer rules the greenhouse. Workers tend to carnations. In a multitude of splendid colours, they grow towards the sun until they’re ready to fulfill their cut-flower destiny. Carnations is an audiovisual meditation on movements within a carnation nursery close to filmmaker Martijn van de Wiele’s home.

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Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Moldova, 2020, 20’

After twenty years of silence, filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova returns to her great-grandparents’ home, where she endured traumatic experiences that left a lasting impression on her memory.

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Pauline Fonsny, Belgium, 2019, 27’

In 1998, Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old Nigerian immigrant, died on Belgian soil of suffocation under a police pillow. Twenty years later, two women tell her story in a cry for justice. Through this film, they highlight the reality of detention centres: the harsh conditions of confinement, the suffering of detainees and the abuse by guards and police officers.

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Eight thousand five hundred kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, filmmaker Diego looks at the inaccessible forest from the outside. Its Belgian counterpiece, however, is easier to explore.

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Aulona Fetahaj, Belgium, Kosovo, 2020, 24’

Drawing on digital memories and using online tools such as Google Maps, Aulona Fetahaj reflects on how it feels to be the child of refugees in the digital age.

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Copa-Loca

Christos Massalas, Greece, 2017, 14’

This is the story of Copa-Loca. Paulina is the girl at the heart of this abandoned Greek summer resort. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.

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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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