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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
essay

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
Walid Bekhti Ammour
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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...

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The Living Wardrobe

Martí Madaula Esquirol, Spain, USA, 2024, 18’

Martí arrives in Bilbao for an artistic residency. In his new room, his clothes occupy only a small portion of the enormous wardrobe. But when he meets someone, the wardrobe slowly begins to fill up. Where has the emptiness gone, the free space, the little corner that was his?

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Old Child

Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi, Belgium, Palestine, 2019, 16’

Old Child depicts the fragmented story of Hazem, who had to flee Gaza. Throughout this stream-of-consciousness montage of dreams and reminiscences, he searches for order but also for the beauty he left behind.

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Working Knowledge of Ritual

Hannan Jones, Australia, 2023, 4’

By interweaving esoteric texts and images, Working Knowledge of Ritual underscores the interconnectedness of spirituality and nature. The film muses on our energies alongside the natural world, inspired by the writings of Leonard Jones.

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Blow Up My Town

Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1968, 13’

A young woman, played by Chantal Akerman herself, enters her flat in Brussels and begins a household routine that gradually degenerates. Parodying the everyday, she mops the floor, polishes her shoes, and sticks tape over the cracks in the door, thereby giving domestic life an explosive twist.

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Nowhere Else

Lee Kyeong-won, South Korea, 2021, 28’

After going missing, a woman is unable to remember her past until her former husband pays her a visit and she recalls a memory of where she lived with the man a long time ago.

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Gestes du repas

Luc de Heusch, Belgium, 1958, 23’

This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.

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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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