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Houses With Small Windows

Bülent Öztürk, Belgium, 2013, 15’
La Biennale di Venezia

2013

Twenty-two-year-old Dilan pays for her forbidden love for a young man in a neighbouring village with her life. She has shamed the family and, therefore, must die at the hands of her brothers. As tradition will have it, the killing must be compensated. Because of this, six-year-old Emine is given to Dilan’s relatives.

Houses With Small Windows (Bülent Öztürk, 2013)
Houses With Small Windows (Bülent Öztürk, 2013)
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Where Silence Reigns

Bülent Öztürk’s Houses With Small Windows (2013)

Öykü Sofuoğlu
08.04.2024

In this land where the currency is family honour, life and death become transactional realities, and people mere commodities. Debts are paid by the blood of victims and the tears of torn-apart families. However, far from calculatedly leading up to a dramatic climax, Houses With Small Windows follows an ethics of representation. The violent, sensationalist aspects of honour killings are not its primary concern. With its careful respect for those women left unseen and unheard throughout their lives, the film asks: Do we have to see it happen when we understand her death is unavoidable?

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Credits

Script
Bülent Öztürk, Mizgin Mujde Arslan
Cast
Emine Korkmaz, Mizgin Mujde Arslan
Camera
Hadewych Cocquyt
Editor
Bert Jacobs, Jan Hameeuw, Pieter Smet
Sound
Pol Vanlaer
Producer
Antoine Vermeesch, Hanne Phlypo
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fiction drama

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Waithood

Louisiana Mees-Fongang, Belgium, 2019, 21’

In Athens, five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb establishments that one of them is cleaning for a meagre fee.

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D’un château l’autre

Emmanuel Marre, Belgium, 2018, 40’

Pierre, 25 years old and on a scholarship for a prestigious Parisian university, is lodged by Francine, who is 75, disabled, and confined to her wheelchair. Both puzzled and disoriented, they witness the French presidential elections of 2017 play out.

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The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do

Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2017, 20’

Two siblings roam the mystical landscapes of Colombia, searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams.

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Un Chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel, France, 1929, 21’

Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote his first feat together with Salvador Dalí, based on their dreams. Don’t get stuck on the plot. Buñuel deliberately omits chronology and opts for Freudian dream logic, in which scenes do not necessarily follow one another logically.

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Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

Marta Pajek, Poland, 2016, 15’

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns.

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Language of the Entrails

Luciana Decker Orozco, Bolivia, USA, 2025, 12’

A journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails. This film explores the intimate rhythm of digestion only to next investigate the becoming of geological eras, inspired by Gamaliel Churata’s El Pez de Oro, in which he states, “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”

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Da-Dzma

Jaro Minne, Belgium, 2019, 16’

Winter. A fifteen-year-old girl in a remote Georgian town tries to get closer to her older brother just as he decides to leave home in search of work abroad.

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Herman@s (Les Adelphes)

Hélène Alix Mourrier, France, 2021, 29’

Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. This essayistic film follows their quest to create more recognition for the queer community.

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