Catalogue des films de « Gilles Laurent »

Dans la zone évacuée autour de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima, 5 ans après la catastrophe, le village de Tomioka est toujours vide de ses quinze mille habitants. Quelques rares individus vivent encore sur cette terre brûlante de...

Fiction and autobiographical elements mingle in a lyrical tale that drags the viewer into a universe of beauty, death, and decay. Author and director Els Dietvorst zooms in on the raw reality of a rainy year that drives the farmer to despair. In a...

Felix is an ex-car factory worker in Vilvoorde. Fifteen years ago his employer suddenly announced the plant's closure. In response 3100 workers went on strike paralysing Belgium for weeks. But what remains after solidarity and struggle?

Neel is 50 years old, has three children, a husband and a grandson. In the terminal phase of cancer, she decides she wants to be euthanized when the pain becomes too much. Manno Lanssens rigorously and tenderly accompanies her throughout the last...

In the late morning of January 16th 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila, is murdered in his presidential office by a soldier-kid who had become his bodyguard. We are in the Congo (former Zaire), the very country where four years earlier Kabila had seized...

En 1926, Suzanne naît de l'union entre un administrateur territorial belge et une femme rwandaise. À l'époque, ces unions sont sanctionnées par le pouvoir colonial. À l'âge de 4 ans, son père embarque Suzanne vers la Belgique pour qu'elle y...

In what is left of the city of Jaffa, a man about to lose his house contemplates his fate. Meanwhile two women remain tied to their homes. One finds solace feeding her old mother, until her house is taken over by an Israeli film crew. The other...

A view. A space. A village like a world, where personalities, ideas and cultures live side-by-side... Where the new people try to find a place without dislodging the elders. Where one tries to respect the Earth and the people who inhabit it. A...

Damian is 20 years old. We meet him a few months before he leaves the juvenile prison in Celje (in Slovenia), where he had been detained since he was sixteen. From his cell he dreams of the room at home, the room that once used to be his...

The documentary feature "Sunny’s Time Now" retraces the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free Jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as...