NEIGHBOUR(HOOD)S + FOR(MER) YUGOSLAVIA + LES FILMS DE LA MAISON

19:00 SHORTS 3 - NEIGHBOUR(HOOD)S
20:20 SHORTS 2 - FOR(MER) YUGOSLAVIA
20:50 SHORTS 4 - LES FILMS DE LA MAISON

19:00 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

20:20 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?

20:50 SHORTS 4 - LES FILMS DE LA MAISON

Les films de la maison emerge from the eyes and hands of the movement La Voix des Sans-Papiers and the two filmmakers Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin. They are making a collection of films which, far from simply filming a struggle, draw the outlines of a house - a place to be built together. If one day all these films were to be reassembled, we might finally be able to see this house from the inside. La Voix des Sans-Papiers was born in 2014. Since then, they have occupied around twenty occupations in Brussels.

Carry On (Mieriën Coppens, 2017)
A group of people without valid residence documents is closely observed in this silent film. The absence of sound highlights the contrast between their quiet presence and the intense, often unseen pressures they endure.

Et leurs lettres (Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens, 2023)
Hundreds of summons letters arrive at the occupied building of La Voix des Sans Papiers. With care, Kandé and Taslim sort and distribute the letters to the residents, who will later appear in court. In the corridors of the courthouse, the sounds of an occupation echo.

La maison (Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens, 2019)
In the house of La Voix des Sans Papiers in Brussels, the members gather in the corridor for a meeting that will last all night. A direct and intimate confrontation with the living environment of undocumented people in Brussels.