LOOKING (FOR) + LES FILMS DE LA MAISON + FOR(MER) YUGOSLAVIA

13:00 SHORTS 1 - LOOKING (FOR)
15:05 SHORTS 4 - LES FILMS DE LA MAISON
16:10 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 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.

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?