Catalogue des films de « Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd »

Around Mount Ararat – in Turkey, in Armenia and in High-Karabakh – messengers and their carrier pigeons wander among places destroyed by war. As they wander, they meet Yezidis and Armenians who testify to what they have endured, to their...

We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals. Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe that they are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will be freed from their existence. This...

The "tourmentes" is, a snow tempest which disorients and confuses. It is also the name given to a melancholy provoked by the harshness and length of winter. Where the storm blows, men erected belfries to call back the lost. And the shepherds,...

Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections – one occupied by Morocco, the other under the control of the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement’s Polisario...

The four stories that make up this film take us from Belgium to the banks of the Senegal river, from the North of France to the Western Sahara mountains. Both lead us to dormant men and women who are wandering between two worlds – the world of...

Maam Kumba is the genie of Saint Louis. She lives in the Senegal River. Her presence haunts the city and the river, and an entire collective imaginary has been built around her. Yet, she remains mysterious, and few persons can claim that they saw...

Most of the walls of houses in Saint Louis, Senegal, are covered with paintings depicting the master of the Mourid Brotherhood, Amadou Bamba. These frescoes are also to be found on ships’ flags, on barouches, and in bedrooms. Most of them bear...

“Le cercle des noyés" is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisoned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata. This film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners...

"In 1996, I was staying in the town of Mankien in Southern Sudan, filming the war. At the time, I thought that doing a film on a region in the throes of conflict was a political act. Once I was there, the reality of it struck me as different from...

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception on this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of...