The household of a Lisbon family is disbanded after a century, and turns into the hub of a biographical and contemporary investigation. While the camera accompanies the further path of the furniture and objects left behind, a fragmentarily mounted exchange of letters off screen bears witness to personal and historic tragedies. What remains – o que resta – , is the memory. A time-essay. (Diagonale Catalogue).
Years of buying dresses compulsively made of Sandrine’s wardrobe a scape from the real world. Now, wanting to become the mature woman and actress she already is, she decides to sell her dresses and to have an on-camera catharsis that finally releases the pain in her.
Bétail is an experimental documentary about the intertwining of bodies and lives in a cattle ranch. During its three chapters, each of them focusing on a different physical element, a birth unfolds while the daily routine takes place.
A brief glimpse into the lives of Achiel and Marjorie, two Flemish Belgians from Gent, who have chosen two divergent paths concerning their own euthanasia. Marjorie has chosen life, and being a professional masseuse, she agreed to be filmed while meeting Achiel to give him his first, and last, professional massage of his life, two days before his death.
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