Catalogue des films de « Kwinten Van Laethem »

In "The Fruit Tree" a young woman, Sharleece, wanders through a house that is available to rent in the sleepy desert town where she lives, California City. Looking out of the window evokes unexpected memories of her childhood home in Los Angeles.

In the 1970s, the populous neighbourhood around Brussels-North Station was destroyed to make room for "Little Manhattan", a modernist dream with the two World Trade Centre towers as its crown jewels. The project failed, leaving the towers and...

A village, two men, a lot of pigeons and me. One of the man is a famous but silent pigeon wizard. The other man is my father. While the pigeons are coming and going, the two man are staying there, always. Me, I left this place that one shouldn't...

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...

Chaque année, environ 200 000 femmes quittent les Philippines pour travailler comme domestiques. Elles se rendent dans le monde entier, vers des pays riches industrialisés. Aux Philippines, chaque femme désireuse de quitter le pays en tant que...

"Ours is a country of words" is filmed in Shatila, a refugee camp built in Lebanon when thousands of Palestinians fled their country in 1948. The story begins at an undetermined moment in the future, when the dream of the Palestinian refugees to...

In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted half-built houses in Albania, a new mythology is in the making. The filmmakers, perhaps a contemporary incarnation of Goldilocks from the tale of the Three Bears, invade the houses and occupy...

lm essay "Battles" reveals the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places...

The American West. We have arrived in a world where human life would seem to be impossible: an arid, mythical landscape characterized by absence. Absence of water, trees, life. In the beginning there was nothing. But then traces start appearing....

"Beauty and the Right to the Ugly" is a cinematic experiment set in the multifunctional community center, Het Karregat, in Eindhoven. Het Karregat, designed by architect Frank Van Klingeren and completed in 1974, is situated in the center of a...