Death, a subject that concerns all humanity, frightening for some, indifferent for others, what is obvious is that everyone tries to avoid it Aymen, a young Moroccan of 35 years old, decided to break this evidence, and experience this mysterious subject by going through the Muslim practice of washing and shrouding a corpse. A practice carried out by people of immense courage called The Washers. Will he be able to accept death after this sensation?
Categorie: LBL 2023
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After getting infected with COVID 19, a 57-year-old painter, single woman, Mitra, goes into a coma. With her last breaths, she begins travelling to different pieces of her memories through her unconscious mind. Mitra’s spirit comes back home to pack an imaginary luggage full of her bittersweet memories and take it away. Moments before her last travel, just like Lot’s wife, she looks back at the lives of hers, her friends and her generation… at what they have done, what they have built and what they have ruined…
IT’S A WRAP
Grandma Haya decides to stop eating, stop taking her medication, and begins organizing her farewell party from life. Her friends and family try to dissuade her, but Haya is adamant about her decision. Miri, Haya’s daughter, finds herself caught between her desire to help her mother organize the farewell party, and her fear that she will soon become an orphan. This is also Miri’s last chance to find out from her mother the origins of her father, whom Miri has never met.
SANCTUARY
A cemetery full of life. Over the course of a beautiful summer day, we’re travelling to the heart of a city cemetery in the company of the various inhabitants who lives in the place: red squirrels, foxes, insects and birds.
THE PROWLER
In a remote house, in the middle of a forest, a lonely man faces a mysterious prowler who steals his belongings.
ANKH
Ankh introduces audiences to the lifelong partner (Luc Verlinden) and showcases his hopeful treasure-hunting Egyptian adventure to find his departed husband Patrick Knight (As himself) and accidentally brings him back to life. During his resurrection, the viewer is taken into memories during a cruise down the Nile which ends in Cairo, where a complete transformation in the look-alike of Queen Nefertiti is accomplished. Ofra Haza, the Madonna of the east follows them closely and helps them in their search for the key to life, Ankh, the afterlife. Ankh is a travelogue through ancient Egypt and makes the beautiful soundtrack, (music by Gravity Noir), come to life. It’s not about fame and fortune, it’s about the footprints we leave behind. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19819082/
THE BOY AND THE OWL
A young boy lives his life in a magical way, surrounded by the picturesque atmosphere of his village, in this fable about love and the act of letting go.
RED GAIA
Alone on the dying red planet, among the ruins of human civilization, one last android desperately guards the last essences of life. In her pursuit for meaning, she finds her own soul hanging in the balance. Red Gaia is a tone-poem meditation on life, death and rebirth, destruction and creation and the cycles of existence, drawing inspiration from the Bhagavad Gita, Dante’s Purgatorio, the Kabballah, the Tibetan Bardol Thodol as well as the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
2020: LIFE AND DEATH OF A VIRUS
A visual and aural “Frankenstein” of images and news from around the world, gathered over two years of research, about that strange and absurd year that we are unlikely to forget…
REMANENT
After environmental collapse confines people indoors, survivors cling on to the past through a digital recreation of the cities of yesterday. Every day, Zack chases the same elusive jogger, a programmed background character modeled after a woman he used to know.