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what else grows on the palm of your hand?

Dhiaa Biya, Morocco, Belgium, 2023, 16’
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

2024

The routines of two women fuse together over time. One is busy with her bread, the other with her memories. Their similar gestures, repeated again and again, slowly unfold the special bond that unites them.

Bio Dhiaa Biya

Dhiaa Biya is a Moroccan filmmaker and photographer based in Brussels. Her work often draws on recurring motifs in language and gesture. Dhiaa explores the rhythms of everyday actions and the intricacies of memory, focusing on visual composition, poetic resonance, and close observation of her surroundings.

what else grows on the palm of your hand? (Dhiaa Biya, 2023)
what else grows on the palm of your hand? (Dhiaa Biya, 2023)
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Whispering Hands

Dhiaa Biya’s what else grows on the palm of your hand? (2023)

Bo Alfaro Decreton
01.05.2026

In a series of intimate, domestic scenes that interweave the present with the past, Dhiaa Biya honours the weathered hands of a (deceased) grandmother. Through repetition of the same gestures, the hands of three generations of women merge, free from any obstacles posed by the passage of time. Is there a more beautiful part of the body than the hands to reflect on in order to rekindle the extinguished connection between head and body, a characteristic of these frenzied times?

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Credits

Script
Dhiaa Biya
Cast
Alaa Assab, Najia Sabir, Zineb Abbad Al Andaloussi
Camera
Gaston Pepin Struye
Editor
Vince De Leenheer
Sound editor
Ismaël Iken
Colour grading
Louis Muller Diettart
Film school
LUCA School of Arts, Sint-Lukas Brussel
Producer
Kenza Alouia, Walid Bekhti Ammour
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0.2 Milligrams of Gold

Diego Quinderé de Carvalho, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, 2021, 24’

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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Self-Portrait

Jonas Mekas, USA, 1980, 20’

In what one could call Jonas Mekas’ first video blog, the Lithuanian avant-garde filmmaker reflects on his life and the art of cinema and representation.

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The Summer Movie

Emmanuel Marre, Belgium, 2017, 30’

A film about highways, tourists, concrete picnic tables, and lukewarm melons. About a man who wants to leave and a child who stops him. A summer movie.

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Expires in 28 days
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Women I Love

Barbara Hammer, USA, 1976, 23’

A series of cameo portraits of Barbara Hammer’s friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature. The culminating footage evokes a tantric painting of sustained sexuality.

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Mars, Oman

Vanessa del Campo, Belgium, 2019, 20’

Oman’s vast plains look so much like Mars that they are used as a training ground for astronauts. Two local girls gaze at the starry sky like curious scientists while the astronauts philosophise about living on the Red Planet.

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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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Water and Salt

Luisa Mello, Belgium, Brazil, 2019, 10’

A journey through the consciousness of a woman whose country is under threat from a fascist government.

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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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