14:00 Mizuko by Katelyn Rebelo – 15 min
14:20 The eternal night of twelve moons by Priscilla Padilla – 90 min
16:05 The lake of fire by Tony Kaye – film extracts – 6 min
16:25 A Man's Place by Coline Grando – 30 min
17:35 Vers la fin des aiguilles à tricoter by Herman Bertiau – 17 min
18:00 Saint Omer by Alice Diop – 122 min
20:30 Acts of care by Constanze Wouters Test Screening – 30 min
21:05 Mizuko by Katelyn Rebelo & Kira Dane – 15 min

Mizuko by Katelyn Rebelo – 15 min
In Japanese, there's a special word for an unborn life. Mizuko, which means “water child,” is used to refer to both miscarried and aborted pregnancies. In addition to this word, there's a Buddhist ritual for grief called ‘mizuko kuyo’ that allows people to metaphorically return their unborn children to the sea. Told through the Japanese American filmmaker’s personal story of abortion in the US, Mizuko is a partially animated, intimate reckoning with the impact of this cultural context.

The eternal night of twelve moons by Priscilla Padilla – 90 min
On the Guajira peninsula in northern Colombia the old traditions of the indigenous Wayuu still hold sway. As soon as they begin menstruating, young women have to go and spend a year in a simple hut where only a few women are allowed to visit them. Contact with men is taboo. The grandmother is chiefly responsible for preparing the girl for her role as a woman during this period of seclusion. Pili is 12 years old when, for her grandmother's sake, she decides to follow this custom. But does she really know what she is taking on?

The lake of fire by Tony Kaye – film extracts – 6 min
Tony Kaye depicts the heated ongoing abortion debate in America, and features graphic footage of actual medical procedures. Presenting people on booth pro-choice and pro-life sides of the issue, the documentary includes interviews with philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry and numerous others.

A Man's Place by Coline Grando – 30 min
Men between the ages of 20 and 40 have been confronted with an unforeseen pregnancy. In most cases, abortion followed. They reveal their feelings and thoughts about this event. Through these life stories, the film reflects on a man’s place in the relations between women and men.

Vers la fin des aiguilles à tricoter by Herman Bertiau – 17 min
Vers la fin des aiguilles à tricoter is a documentary filmed in 1974 in Paris about a young woman's abortion, carried out in her flat by the MLAC: Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception. The film can now be seen thanks to the support of the European Union- NextGenerationEU and Peliskan.

Saint Omer by Alice Diop – 122 min
Alice Diop delves into a human interest story that shook the whole of France: the trial of a Franco-Senegalese mother charged with infanticide. A dizzying mise en abyme between the defendant and the heroine, the filmmaker and her subject, revealing the complexity inherent to the experience of being born a woman. Saint Omer was awarded the Silver Lion and the Lion of the Future at the Venice International Film Festival.

Acts of care by Constanze Wouters Test Screening – 30 min
When terminating a pregnancy is seen as an act of care, new conversations can begin. Care for yourself, care for a partner or care for future choices. One in five Belgian women decides to terminate her pregnancy. Abortion in Belgium is safe, easily accessible and almost free: rights hard fought for. This poetic documentary talks about the obviousness of the possibility to decide to be a parent or not. But also about the wounds that this choice might still cause. In Acts of Care, five characters recount their experience, vulnerable yet powerful, hoping to better understand and love each other.