Programme Alcine50

The Chinese restaurant is empty. Mister Ping is gone. The exotic bird’s cage stands wide open. No one knows what happened. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as a great opportunity to catch the birds and sell them for a great amount of money. But catching the birds ain’t as simple as it seems…

Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.

A summer idyll in a thriving family vineyard is interrupted by an assault on Yana, one of its seasonal workers.

Young actors take over the bodies of my grandparents and replay their last moments together. Accompanied by the voice of my grandfather, they tell of the escaping memory, the painful bodies, the loneliness. They tell of the loss, talk of life.

Under the summer high sky, on the low land of a barren island, a young girl tries to force her father not to give up on what’s left of their family.

Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog. The film is based on the experiences of the director during the first two years of the Syrian war.

Michael is on the brink of a new life: his first real relationship and he has a job in a town where no one knows him. However, when his name returns to the news and his home is attacked, his dream of anonymity starts to crumble, leaving him scrambling to keep his past hidden — and his new life safe.

Lea begins a summer job as a cashier in a large supermarket chain. In an empty and cold environment, she soon discovers the underlying violence of the work place.

For ten years, I've pretended to make a movie out of my grandfather's Algerian war souvenirs. Today, I’m not sure I want to hear what he has to say.

Andrea has made her first communion. However, the ceremony lacks glamour. For Andrea, things without sparkles are not things. The only problem is: Does this God exist?

Carmela, a 12-year-old girl, on the day of her birthday is obliged to meet her father at a family meeting center due to the gender-violence sentence her mother has against him.

In 2018, a group of filmmakers, calling themselves 'The Motionless', embarks on an essay film about a hypothetical stillness syndrome in the Republic of Colombia.

Ryuki was born into a rich family, but two years ago he lost everything. Like a lot of people with nowhere to go, he ends up in Tokyo’s infamous red-light quarter. He starts working in a cutthroat Host Club where women, mostly prostitutes, come to look for a new boyfriend. He quickly becomes the Number One Host, but he hopes that the secret that already made him lose everything doesn’t ruin this.

In 1969, artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi made the short animated film 'Homenaje a Tarzán', which ended with an enigmatic 'to be continued'. 'Ehiza' is our continuation.

Carmen is 50 years old and wants to take a life that has always turned her back. But, a message on her cell phone prevents it. Her father, with whom she has not spoken for a long time, asks her to visit him due to an urgent matter.Carmen, with nothing to lose, goes and the reunion will cause an ava.

Spending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia comes to recognize the latent similarities between her and her dead grandmother, and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can’t resist playing dress-up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who.

Geovany, a ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang, is serving his sentence in an isolation cell of a Salvadoran evangelical prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.

- You really loved him, didn’t you? - Yes. I stopped loving him recently. (Interferences. Silences. Fissures. Two women talking. A radio-graphy).

In the mountain. In A Costa da Morte (Spain). An old lady. A house. A computer. An attempt to communicate with the outside.

Four teenagers from a marginal suburb in Almería (Spain), proud of their Moroccan-Spanish background will see their self-confidence and friendship put to the test on the eighteenth birthday of one of them.

Lluís has a strong argument with his father at the construction site where they work together as architects. As a result of this confrontation, Lluís forced himself to abandon all his responsibilities, pushing his deepest fears to the limit and feeling overwhelmed by the world around him.

Mutha searches for antipersonnel mines in the Western Sahara Desert. Every day, she faces death. Every exploded landmine reminds her that she has saved a life, but also that a mine marked her destiny. She is not alone between the fire and the sand.