Le Nouveau

Benoît, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoît organizes a big party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever?

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

Samy lives happily with his wife, Alice, in a poor urban housing project amongst friends and neighbours. For his son’s birthday, the richest man in France throws open his grand department store, offering the boy whatever he wants. Alexandre chooses Samy, the night watchman, as his new toy…

A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.

A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.

When her biological clock starts ticking, Lucie tells her lesbian lover, Marion, that she wants a baby. Marion agrees, and the couple embarks on the delicate process of finding a suitable father -- eventually settling on Marion's old pal Hugo. Lucie and Marion's unconventional path to pregnancy elicits a full range of reactions from their friends and family in this charming French comedy.

Early "photoscene" (chronograph #7 in Gaumont catalogue) showing a performance of the cake walk. Also known as "Cake-walk nègre" by many (sadly).

Husbands and wives, lovers and gigolos, all break a sweat when Dr. Marcelin’s newly-revised last will and testament is prematurely exposed.

How did America get the Name we Use Today, ... Amerigo Vespucci, ... The name on the Map he had made for the New World, ... An Avid Explorer and Merchant who made a name for himself via an Oops.

A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.

Just when the school year is about to start after the summer break, 17-year-old Hedi learns that it has been decided by the administration that he must change his family name. The news troubles him and raises all kinds of questions: does changing his name also mean changing his identity, becoming someone else? Everyone around him has an opinion on the matter. It's up to him to discover his own, without becoming too lost in the process.

Cadavre Exquis introduces five experimental filmmakers, thereby showing the different aspects of experimental cinema in the Netherlands. With Lonnie van Brummelen, Gerard Holthuis, Jeroen Eisinga, Joost Rekveld and Henri Plaat. Premièred at IFFR. Screened in 10 theaters as introduction to the film series DLIGHT, with experimental Dutch films from 1960 to 2004. Followed by screenings in theaters in Amsterdam, Brussel and Tallinn. SOMNIO, Alkmaar 2011, E*Cinema: LichtVal, EYE. As dvd part of the book ‘Film3’ (Anna Abrahams, 2004). Broadcast by FilmbankTV december 2009

This new episode of the Notebooks is entitled The New Desert (4 March 1998 to 26 November 1998). These are years of cinematographic maturity in a world that is searching for its bearings and has not found its bearings following the collapse and disappearance of the USSR and its communist satellites. It was a period of indecision and uncertainty. Are we happy? Is one unhappy? Nobody really knows. I travel, film, watch the events that come before my camera. I travel, film, watch the events that come before my camera. But I only retain the most insignificant or the most unusual, those that do not make history but are my history. My eye lingers on what others don't look at, on the banality of things, on what television and mainstream cinema ignore.