Catalogue des films de « Bénédicte Liénard »

Off the Tunisian coast, a coroner examines the body of a young castaway. Searching for truth, she questions herself. What if he could talk? What did he see? Who was he? Her questions mingle with the chorus of Mourning Mothers, who evoke memories...

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up forced into prostitution when her...

On the banks of the Ucayali river, in the Peruvian rainforest, three generations of the same family struggle to survive through their hand-made production of coal. After an accident that burned her feet, the grandmother leaves the family, with the...

Generation after generation, my family took care of a small grove planted above an ancient closed down coalmine pit in the Borinage region. Learning my father is incurably ill, in order to better understand what my connections are to the story of...

Brussels, Béguinage Church: migrants organise a hunger strike to get papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Lybian border, Choucha camp. Refugees tell their horrible crossing of the Sahara to the North, showing the films made with their cellular. Liège,...

In September 2004, some filmmakers met a group of asylum seekers. The latter take over the camera and film their everyday life: from the hostel corridors to the town forbidden to those who are still "nobodies". Their intuitions, their stories,...

"Une part du ciel" recounts the resistance of women prisoners and a group of women workers in a factory. Claudine, militant trade unionist in this factory, finds her past catching up with her, a past that links her to Joanna who is now in...

This film was shot from the summer of 1995 to the winter of 1997. It follows the lives of 4 adolescents, all institutionalised and placed under court protection. Adopting the young peoples' viewpoint, the film underscores the dichotomy between...