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double bill #11

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.

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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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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À Gis

Thiago Carvalhaes, Belgium, Portugal, 2017, 20’

The Brazilian trans woman Gisberta lived as an immigrant in Portugal. After she was brutally murdered, she became an icon for the transgender rights cause.

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Atopia

Olivier De Vos, Belgium, 2021, 18’

An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.

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I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore

Viv Li, Belgium, China, 2020, 16’

A wistful but witty account of a trip to Beijing by filmmaker Viv Li, a Chinese art student who has been living abroad for ten years. Her stay with her family mercilessly exposes how uprooted she has become by her life abroad.

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Sirens

Raoul Servais, Belgium, 1968, 9’

A lonesome angler becomes witness to an eccentric idyll between a cabin boy and a mermaid. Dream or reality?

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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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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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I Am Good At Karate

Jess Dadds, United Kingdom, 2021, 11’

Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon.

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