Hubert Bals Fund
Overzicht van films
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Sacrifices
Ossama Mohammed | 113' | France | -
Death, fear and power are the most important themes in this symbolic film that is almost Rembrandt-esque in its portrayal. A shadowy family tale in… -
Scenery
He Jianjun | 95' | China | World premiere
Brand-new Chinese film about a young and ambitious lawyer, a female taxi-driver, a hairdresser and a rapist the lawyer has to find. -
The Season of Guaves
Dang Nhat Minh | 104' | Vietnam | -
Hoa, mentally handicapped after a fall from a guava tree, has one wish: to return to his parental home. A student who lives in the… -
The Second Life of Thieves
Woo Ming Jin | 87' | Malaysia | European premiere
In a small fishing village in Malaysia, it’s not easy to keep anything hidden. Yet the village chief has kept a great secret throughout his… -
Secret Ballot
Babak Payami | 105' | Iran | -
Light and absurd, beautifully stylised comedy in which a resolute election official and a grumpy soldier have to go hunting votes on an Iranian desert -
The Servant’s Shirt
Mani Kaul | 105' | India | World premiere
Intimate yet tragi-comic feature in which people in different hierarchical relationships force servility on each other in Sixties India when democracy -
Shadow Kill
Adoor Gopalakrishnan | 91' | France | -
Indian master of the poetic documentary gaze concentrates on the executioner, his dilemmas and his morality. In an intelligent and moving way, he tack -
The Silence Between Two Thoughts
Babak Payami | 95' | Iran | -
How messages from hell can taunt heaven with their beauty. In a godforsaken landscape, a simple executioner does his work. Then he has to marry… -
Les silences du palais
Moufida Tlatli | 127' | Tunisia | -
The news of the death of Tunisian prince Sid’Ali takes Alia back to her childhood: she is the daughter of the prince’s favourite servant. While… -
Silent Waters
Sabiha Sumar | 99' | France | -
Pakistan, late 1970s. Against the background of increasing intolerance and fundamentalism, in which her son also becomes involved, unbearable secrets -
Sin compasíon
Francisco Lombardi | 120' | Mexico | -
Ramon is Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov in contemporary Lima and is hurt by his family. -
Soldiers of the Rock
Norman Maake | 94' | South Africa | International premiere
Against a background of falling stones and mud slides, two miners fight their battle for power in the stone quarry. Exciting début was a student…