Detail

Steel, stone, rust – and a green cloud pushing its way through a Congolese mining town. Workers perform backbreaking labour, the machine grinds on – and profit flows, though to somewhere else, as it's always been.

[Content Note: Oppression]

Marie Paule Mugeni prepares her speech: for the day a colonial statue of Leopold II will be taken down in Belgium. Though still standing as she readies her address, it is 2020 and the voices in the streets are getting louder and louder.

[Content Note: Oppression]

In the run-up to New Year's Eve, a group of young queer friends head for a secluded beach to celebrate. Music, laughter, bodies and memories belong to them and them alone. Here, they can find freedom – in the sand and in the moment.

[Content Note: Fears (especially claustrophobia), Nudity]

Duels, cowboy hats, jeans – that's it. The classic Western mise-en-scène topples when bodies, gazes and gestures violate the rules. What happens when female shooters occupy the spots typically reserved for male gunslingers?

A man plays himself – or a version of himself. Minimalistic, light, a melodrama that lovingly embraces the strangeness in human beings.

[Content Note: Mental illness]

In the midst of a dark forest, two figures meet. Attraction, repulsion, explosion. Bitter, flamboyant, intoxicating – a love story between spark and shadow.

[Content Note: Sexually explicit, Nudity]

A rethinking of male and female roles: activism, radicalism, power games. The Robbers lays out our narrow-minded notions of gender, shakes them up and subjects them to intense scrutiny.

[Content Note: Nudity, Physical Violence]