Docs from Flanders 2023
Summary
A poetic journey to the heart of the Urals, where the discovery of an alien creature uncovers a haunting secret.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Russian
Featured festivals
2024: Sundance (US)
Draw for Change: We Exist, We Resist
- Original Title: Draw for Change: Existimos, Resistimos
- Genre: Documentary, Animation
- Running time: 15'
Summary
A virtual reality experience that plunges you into the world of young Mexican cartoonist Maremoto.Director
Year of production
2023
Language
Spanish, English, Dutch, French
Featured festivals
2024: FIPADOC (FR); Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (FR)2023: DOK Leipzig (DE); GIFF (CH); Docfest Bruges (BE)
Summary
A magic realist documentary that follows Fanta, a 14-year-old contortionist in Guinea Conakry.Director
Year of production
2025
Language
Sousou, French
Featured festivals
2025: Locarno Festival - Kids Section (CH)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
VraiVrai Films (FR), The Film Kitchen (NL), Stenola Productions (BE)
The Last Jewish Summer
- Original Title: De laatste Joodse zomer
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 108'
Summary
Antwerp’s complicity in the persecution of its Jewish population during WWII is tackled head-on in this frank documentary.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Dutch
Featured festivals
2024 Ghent International Film Festival(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Altitude 100 (BE)
Summary
After a life divided between two countries and two cultures, the choice of final resting place is not straightforward.Director
Year of production
2026
Language
Dutch, Turkish
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
2Pilots Film Production, filmfaust, Gataki Films & Mitra Films
Summary
Charbon shows how Europe was built on fossil fuels over the past 100 years, and how it was torn apart by wars that were the result of these same fossil fuels. During three trips, to Ukraine, Italy and Iraq, filmmaker Manu Riche explains how he and his French-German family are inseparably connected to the fate of the Iraqi filmmaker and refugee Hayder Helo.Director
Year of production
2025
Language
French, Dutch, Italian, English
Featured festivals
2025: BIF&ST (IT)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Thank You & Good Night Productions (BE), Riche, Riche & Riche (BE), Fidelio (IT)
The Vatican - The State of the Church
- Original Title: Het Vaticaan - De Staat van de Kerk
- Genre: Documentary, Historical
- Running time: 10 x 52'
Summary
A candid account of power in the Catholic church.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Multilingual (French, Italian, English...)
Featured festivals
2024: TV Series Berlin - Best Docu Winner(Co-)Production (Flanders):
VRT/Canvas (BE)
Jan Hoet - Thank God for the Gift
- Original Title: Jan Hoet - Thank God for the Gift
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Running time: 80'
Summary
A documentary about the legendary art curator Jan Hoet, who died almost 10 years ago.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Dutch
Featured festivals
2024: BAFF (BE) 2025: BRUSSELS INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (BE); Cannes International Film Week (FR)
Summary
Melina, a nine-year-old Iranian girl, plans to sue her parents after their bitter divorce in a lively and bittersweet film directed by her aunt.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Farsi
Featured festivals
2024: World premiere - CPH:DOX (DK); Alternativa Film Awards (Indonesia); Int. FF d'education (FR); Olympia FF Int. Kids & Docs jury (GR); Visioni dal mondo (IT); Movies That Matter (NL); DMZ Docs (Korea); Inconvenient Films Documentary Festival (LT); Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano (CH); International Female + Film Festival (SE); AJB Doc Film Festival (BIH); Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan); 2025: Regards d’Iran festival (FR)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Atam Film, VRT, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Summary
Activist women in the city of Agadez, northern Niger, try to create spaces where the democratic imagination can thrive.Director
Year of production
2026
Language
Hausa
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Atelier Graphoui, NW, De Imagerie
Summary
Two young men are seduced by online influencers with toxic ideas about masculinity.Director
Year of production
2025
Language
Dutch, English
Summary
A cinematic essay that uses archive footage to reveal that nothing is real and everything is permitted, as long as it is justified by the stories in our heads.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Dutch, English
Featured festivals
Docville Leuven(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Take Five (BE)
Apple Cider Vinegar
- Original Title: Apple Cider Vinegar
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 80'
Summary
A journey in search of stone turns into a meditation on ecological grief.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
English, Arabic, Portuguese
Featured festivals
2017: Pitching du Réel Co-production Forum - Visions du Réel (CH)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Pieter van Huijstee Film (NL), LittleBig Productions (SE)
Last Letters From My Grandma
- Original Title: Last Letters From My Grandma
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 93'
Summary
A personal journey to the Urals to investigate a family secret is overshadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Director
Year of production
2025
Language
Russian
Featured festivals
Festival Dei Populi, Moldox, Docville(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Volya Film (NL), OWH Studio (MD), Microfilms (RO), Al Jazeera Balkans, VRT Canvas
Mr ENGEL, Sexonomic Miracle
- Original Title: Herr ENGEL, SEXSCHAFTSWUNDER
- Genre: Documentary, Biography, Historical
- Running time: 65'
Summary
Towards the end of his life, Dieter Engel, Germany's most famous brothel owner, unveils his secret art collection.Director
Sophie Schoukens, Peter Woditsch
Year of production
2025
Language
German, French, Dutch, English
Featured festivals
Millenium Intl Film Fest, BANGKOK movie awards – Best documentary film award – Golden Elephant Award EF best film Award at Bizarre art Film Festival – Spain « best long documentary Film » at 10 th edition – BEST Documentary Film at Golden Harvest Film Festival – TOKYO Japan 2025 – GOLDEN HARVEST AWARD WORCESTER Film Festival – UK 2025 Better World Film Festival at Munich film F , Germany – The SUNRISE TROPHY for best documentary Angelic Stars international Film Festival, Los Angeles 2025 The Women’s Bioscope intl Film Festival , Delhi, India (official selection)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Magellan Films (BE)
Life Will Give You Pictures
- Original Title: Life Will Give You Pictures
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 80'
Summary
A majestic but dilapidated house holds the gigantic, chaotic archive of three generations of photographers. The stories it reveals bring together history, melancholia, and the eternal struggle between fathers and sons.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Dutch
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Volya Films (NL)
Summary
Troubled teenager Ruben finds space to heal and be himself at a remote farm in the French Cévennes.Director
Year of production
2023
Language
Dutch
Featured festivals
2024: Film festival Oostende (BE) 2025: LET'S DOC (PL)
Summary
An intimate portrait of Zlata, an adolescent girl who has fled the war in Ukraine and ends up in an unfamiliar land, Belgium.Director
Year of production
2023
Language
Ukrainian, Dutch, English
Featured festivals
2023: Film Fest Gent (BE)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
VRT/Canvas, Lito Films
The Interview
- Original Title: The Interview
- Genre: Documentary, Hybrid
- Running time: 40'
Summary
You interview Afghan asylum-seekers and must decide for yourself, on the spot, who can stay and who must be sent back. How easy is it to make that decision when the person is sitting in front of you, in the same room?Director
Year of production
2023
Language
English
Featured festivals
XR competition Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, 2024, Kurzsüchtig Film Festival, Leipzig(Co-)Production (Flanders):
hug films (DE)
Forbidden Pilgrimage
- Original Title: Une femme qui part
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 82'
Summary
In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to stand on an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. In 2022, the director retraces her steps to the summit in order to understand better this remarkable woman.Director
Year of production
2023
Language
English, French, Dutch, Hindi
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Volya Films (NL)
This is my moment
- Original Title: This is my moment
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 106'
Summary
Young Eritrean cyclist Biniam Girmay dreams of riding in the Tour de France, and changing the history of competitive cycling.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Tigrinya, English, French
Featured festivals
2020: IDFA Forum (NL); Just Film Works in Progress - Tallinn & Baltic Event, Black Nights Film Festival (EE); When East Meets West (IT)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Magellan Films (BE), Little Big Story (FR), Een van de jongens (NL), Stenola Productions (BE)
How Do You Spell Home?
- Original Title: How Do You Spell Home?
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 85'
Summary
Fifteen unaccompanied minors who have arrived in Belgium as refugees live in a community centre, where they must stay until they reach the age of 18. This documentary looks at their search for a sense of home away from home.Director
Year of production
2023
Language
Dutch, Tigrinya, Urdu, Pashto
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Rayuela Productions (BE)
Summary
A quest to find a lost theatre prop takes Palestinian refugee Jamal Hindawi on a journey that reveals the impact of successive political and economic crises on an entire region and its people.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Arabic
Featured festivals
2022: Cannes Docs - Palestine Showcase of Docs-in-Progress (FR) 2023: Ghent International Film Festival (BE); IDFA (NL)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Fulgurance (FR), Family Affair Films (NL), Placeless Films (LB)
Ana + Yek (Me + You)
- Original Title: Ana + Yek (Me + You)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Running time: 85'
Summary
A documentary about twin sisters whose beliefs have taken them on different paths.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Dutch, French, Darija
Featured festivals
2023: Ghent International Film Festival (BE); Ji-Hlava IDFF (CZ)
Summary
Angie (34) takes her father Mansour (74) on a roadtrip from Brussels to Beirut by car in an attempt to retrace the same path he took 42 years ago. However, the route is no longer the same, and neither is their relationship.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Arabic, French, English
Featured festivals
2024: IDFA (NL)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Labyrint Film, Thereness Films
Marching in the Dark
- Original Title: Marching in the Dark
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 110'
Summary
A film about the emancipation of young Indian women in a rural area threatened by climate change and farmers' suicides.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
Marathi
Featured festivals
2024: CPH:DOX (DK); Docville (BE); Hot Docs (CA)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
SNG Film (NL), NoCut Film Collective (IN)
Summary
A Hazara family from Afghanistan seeks justice after the death of their daughter at Kabul University.Director
Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaran
Year of production
2024
Language
Persian (Hazaragi)
Featured festivals
2024: Visions du Réel (CH); MOOOV (BE); DOKfest München (DE); DOXA (CA)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Kamay Film, ROW Pictures, Temps Noir
Holding Up The Sky
- Original Title: Holding Up The Sky
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 90'
Summary
Shamans in the Amazon respond to the threat of industry encroaching on their ancestral land.Director
Year of production
2023
Language
Yanomami, Portuguese, French, English
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Een van de Jongens (NL)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- Original Title: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 150'
Summary
The post-colonial struggle for Congo’s resources, told from the unique perspective of Andrée Blouin, a neglected pioneer of female emancipation and independence throughout Africa.Director
Year of production
2024
Language
English, French, Russian, Dutch
Featured festivals
2024: Sundance Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, CPH DOX Sofia IFF, DocVille, Cinema du Reel, Movies that matter, One world Romania, Cleveland Film Festival, Ambulante, BAFICI, San Francisco FF, Doc10 Chicago, Subversive FF, Beldocs, Against Gravity, Seattle Intl FF, IndieLisboa DC/DOX, Cinetopia, Grossman FF, Film Fest Gent on Tour, Underhill Film Festival Montenegro, Sydney Film Festival, Encounters, Costa Rica International Film Festival, Festival Contrechamps, New Zealand IFF, Incredible Films Festival, Lemesos International Documentary Festival, Dokufest, Melbourne International Film Festival, Makedox, Festival de cinéma de Douarnenez, Oulu Music Video Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Love and Anarchy, International Human Rights Film Festival Albania, San Sebastian FF (...)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Warboys films (FR), zap-o-matik (BE), BALDR Film (NL), VRT (BE), RTBF (BE), ZKM (DE)
Summary
Activist Jeremy Kewuan faces the invisible power of ideology and faith as he combats traditions of present-day slavery on a remote Indonesian island.Director
Jimmy Hendrickx, Jeremy Kewuan
Year of production
2024
Language
Indonesian, English
Featured festivals
2025: Movies That Matter (NL); DOCVILLE (BE)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
The Y-HOUSE (BE), Baltic Film Corporation (ES), Flash Forward Entertainment (SK), Samarcanda Film (IT)
A Hiphop Minute
- Original Title: A Hiphop Minute
- Genre: Documentary, Biography, Musical
- Running time: 90'
Summary
A Hiphop Minute revisits New York in 1986 and its iconic rap artists, to ask how things have changed over the past 35 years. Does rap still have a future?Director
Year of production
2024
Language
English
Featured festivals
2024: DOK.fest München (DE)
CORPUS a quest for eternity
- Original Title: CORPUS a quest for eternity
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 56'
Summary
A journey through the world of art and science, reflecting on the mortality of the human body.Director
Jelle Janssens, Sofie Hanegreefs
Year of production
2024
Language
Dutch, English, Danish
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Magellan Films (BE)
Draw for Change!
- Original Title: Draw for Change!
- Genre: Documentary, Animation
- Running time: 6 x 52'
Summary
A documentary series about female cartoonists from around the globe, challenging the red lines and taboos of their societies.Director
Laura Nix, Sama Pana, Karen Vázquez Guadarrama, Nada Riyadh, Alisar Hasan, Alaa Amer, Anna Moiseenko
Year of production
2023
Language
English, Arabic, Russian, Spanish
Featured festivals
2023: Canneseries (FR), Film Fest Gent + Docville + Festival des Libertés (BE), Hot Docs (CA), Visions du Réel (FR), Doc NYC + Human Rights Watch FF (VS), Filem' On (NL). 2024: Santa Barbara IFF (VS)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
a_BAHN (LU), Ma.ja.de (DE), Les Films du Balibari (FR)
She They Us - Towards an Equal Future
- Original Title: Zij Hen Wij
- Genre: Documentary
- Running time: 5 x 45'
Summary
How do you navigate the world fiercely, when it doesn’t seem created for your body, work, well-being, or love?Director
Heleen Declercq, Sam Peeters, Zaïde Bil
Year of production
2023
Language
Dutch, English, French, Moroccan, Tunisian, German
Featured festivals
2024: Filmfestival Oostende (BE)2023: World premiere - Film Fest Gent (BE)
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
VRT (BE)
Summary
A documentary investigation of the enormous opportunities and pitfalls offered by our ever-expanding knowledge of DNA.Director
Lennart Stuyck, Maarten Stuyck
Year of production
2023
Language
Dutch
(Co-)Production (Flanders):
VRT
The Mysterious Case of the Belgian Triangle
- Original Title: The Ufo's boven België
- Genre: Historical
- Running time: 80'
Summary
Thirty years after a wave of UFO sightings in Belgium people are still searching for answers. Can an explanation ever be found, or is the thrill of the chase more exciting?Director
Bram Conjaerts, Maarten Bernaerts
Year of production
2025
Language
Dutch, French
Featured festivals
2025: DOCVILLE (BE)(Co-)Production (Flanders):
Kwassa Films, VRT, RTL
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