Film Catalogue
I Wan'na Be Like You New Dutch
Broersen & Lukacs, 2024, BE, FR, NL, 13 min
Lukács and Broersen examine the Western colonial perception of the jungle as an untouched wilderness or 'terra nullius.' The film reimagines botanical gardens in Brussels, Paris, London, and Amsterdam—places where the wilderness was once appropriated and transported to Europe. The iconic song I Wan'na Be Like You from Disney’s Jungle Book (1967) is reinterpreted by collaborators, most notably the Afro-Surinamese music group Black Harmony, offering a proud reimagining of their community’s history and future in the diaspora.
Coup de Grâce Online Specials
Clara Van Gool, 2011, ES, NL, min
Coup de Grâce is a film about the collapse of a friendship, about what is broken and what cannot break. After a long separation two men meet again in a massive building at a remote location. In the course of the evening and an icy night, they fight a weaponless, exhausting duel.
It tells of how feelings of revenge can never be transformed into resignation in spite of the passing of time. How the lust for life burns, smolders, rekindles and then slowly dies. This duel ends with neither winner nor loser.
Flamenco Queer Online Specials
Ana Gonzalez, Frederick Bernas, ES, US, 23 min
After three decades of hiding his feminine impulses, renowned Spanish dancer Manuel Liñán comes out to challenge convention by pursuing his love of performing flamenco - dressed as a woman.
Sulphur Online Specials
Jellie Dekker , 2000, NL, 14 min, 0+
SULPHUR (short version) is a dance movie by Andrea Leine & Harijono Roebana (choreography) and Jellie Dekker (filmdirector).The film was realised in 2000. Music: Martijn Padding, set decorator: Rudi Luijters.
The film consists of an epilogue, three scenes, and a prologue which were filmed on different locations, ending in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
The choreography was largely inspired by the films’ locations, as was the cinematography. The score was created using samples of set recordings combined with instrumental improvisations. In every scene the four elements (choreography, camera, music, location) have a different concept, but subsequently mix together to create a specific atmosphere centred around the color of sulphur.
DEPARTURES Online Specials
Michael Fetter Nathansky, 2020, DE, min
Departures tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted with the means of Spanish flamenco dance and music, and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, farewell and eternity.