Catalogue des films de « Virginie Surdej »

Throughout the course of his career, the Belgian pianist and composer Walter Hus has taken on a multitude of musical styles and facets. A project for a new “cyborg-opera” brings him to work with Belgian choreographer Isabella Soupart during an...

The Manhattan of 30 years ago would be unrecognizable next to the Manhattan of today. "Dreaming Walls" documents one of the last enclaves of old New York bohemia as it refuses to go gently into that good night. The film focuses on the famous...

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...

À travers ce "home movie", j’exprime mes tentatives de trouver "l’Oiseau bleu"*, le seul être capable d'enrayer le mal qui ronge notre famille, du moins c’est ce que j’ai toujours cru. * "L'Oiseau Bleu, pièce de théâtre écrite par un...

What does the world look like to people who can no longer see? What is there in this endless night, in this profound darkness, that we all imagine? Brigitte, Danielle, Hedwige, Bertrand and Saïd have all lost their sight. They talk about this...

Amina, Fatoma and Asma are three friends from small and distant islands of the Persian Golf in the South of Iran. They managed to go to university in Teheran from where they are taking a train that will bring them back to their native...

In Argentina, between 1976 and 1983, the military dictatorship was responsible for the "disappearance" of thirty thousand people. Victor Basterra is one of the few who survived the régime’s biggest secret concentration camp, the ESMA. After...

A grandfather comments on the photos taken before and during the war in Germany, France, Russia.

Life at the "Petit Château" is about waiting. At the windows, glances and gestures hang immobile. In the corridors, shadows pass, and a thousand languages resonate. Waiting for a few months, or maybe years, changes the château into a prison of...