LOOKING (FOR) + NEIGHBOUR(HOOD)S + FOR(MER) YUGOSLAVIA

13:00 SHORTS 1 - LOOKING (FOR)
15:05 SHORTS 3 - NEIGHBOUR(HOOD)S
16:25 SHORTS 2 - FOR(MER) YUGOSLAVIA

SHORTS 1 - LOOKING (FOR)

Nettoyer Schaerbeek (Farah Kassem, 2017) 19min
Living in Brussels during high terror alerts, a resident from Schaerbeek notices an unusual happening in front of her window.

Waiting Working Hours (Ben De Raes, 2019) 16min
On a street in Brussels where day labourers are looking for a job, the voices of the workers are mixed with Google Street View images, piecing together a dialogue about labour, economics and life.

Boulevard d'Ypres / Ieperlaan (Sarah Vanagt, 2010) 65min
Sarah Vanagt turned one of the empty stores on the colourful Boulevard d’Ypres in Brussels into a film studio and invited her neighbours – a mix of new inhabitants, asylum-seekers and shopkeepers – to come and tell a story, a contemporary fairy tale offering glimpses of the Tales of One Thousand and One Nights.

Krakeel (Mattijs Driesen, 2017) 20min
In the Brussels Krakeel quarter, where massive council blocks undergo gradual renovation, youngsters Soufian and Yasin are hanging out, reflecting on their life in a city and in an enormous world.

SHORTS 3 - NEIGHBOUR(HOOD)S

Floréal (Thierry De Mey, 1985)
Discover the Brussels garden city of Floréal through the lens of a filmmaker who spent his childhood there. A short film that captures the relationship between architecture and residents as pre-modernist architecture comes to life, supported by rhythmic music

Je suis votre voisin (Karine de Villers, Thomas de Thier, 1990)
In a quiet Brussels street, two filmmakers film their neighbours, capturing personal stories and everyday secrets right on their doorsteps. An interesting portrait of their diverse city.

Les cheveux coupés (Emmanuel Marre, 2009)
In different living rooms in Brussels, parents cut their children’s hair. We witness intimate moments between toddlers who resist or completely surrender to the tender ritual and parents who want to succeed in their delicate task.

Les gens du quartier (Jean Harlez, 1955)
An old coco merchant is making his way through the bustling market squares of the Marolles neighborhood with a large beverage dispenser on his back, serving licorice lemonade to locals. A precious document of city life in mid-century Brussels

SHORTS 2 - FOR(MER) YUGOSLAVIA

Papagalo, what’s the Time? (Ingel Vaikla, 2022) 7min
At the former Yugoslavian pavilion from the Brussels World Expo (1958), which was moved to Wevelgem and became the Sint-Pauluscollege high school, a group of kids plays old Yugoslavian children’s games, creating a poetic exchange between the modernist architecture and the moving bodies.

Fantasmagoria (Merlijn Beullens, 2025) ??min
Through images from Skopje (Macedonia) and Brussels, Fantasmagoria examines the tensions around the controversial project Skopje 2014, which reshaped the cityscape with neoclassical façades and monumental statues. How do such interventions function as propaganda? And how are they perceived by residents, artists, and architects?