CATHéRINE (2016) (15x40')

 

Current affairs show with VTM anchor Cathérine Moerkerke - as editor-in-chief.

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DE WERKENDE MENS (2015) (6x52’)

 

An exploration of the meaning of work in eight visual essays, using a class picture of

the director when he was eleven as a starting point. What will you become,

later? What have his classmates and has he become?

 

Made for: Canvas, with the support of VAF/Mediafonds

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Awards: Best Flemish Documentary series at Docville - Belgium

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THE MAJORITY STARTS HERE (2013) (60’)

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Six youngsters from six different Balkan countries meet up in Sarajevo and undertake a trip in a van through Bosnia – Montenegro – Kosovo – Macedonia – Serbia and

Croatia … exploring their common past – present – and future.

 

Made for: BIRN – Balkan Investigative Reporting Network

 

UPLACE – THE RACE (2013) (45’)

 

Made for: Panorama – VRT

 

HET NIEUWE ZOET (2012) (45’)

 

Made for: Panorama – VRT

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Awards: Persprijs Duurzame Ontwikkeling FDRO - Belgium

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A LA GUERRE COMME A LA GUERRE

WAR IS NOT A GAME (2010) (86’)

 

An in-depth exploration of the history of the Geneva Conventions and how they are put in to practice by soldiers in the field.

 

Made for: ARTE – Lichtpunt Belgium – RTBf – YLE – TSR – CBC

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Awards: DOXA Film Festival - Most Creative Documentary in Vancouver, YFF Best Historical

Documentary in Yorkton, l’Etoile de la Scam in France 

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Selected for IDFA 2011 in Amsterdam & nominated for the Prix Europa in Berlin

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NERMA’S QUESTION (2008) (22’30)

 

Nerma Jelacic (30) leads a press agency covering all the local war crime trials in Bosnia & Herzegovina. She gave up a promising career in England for it.

 

Made for: Al Jazeera International – London – Lichtpunt Belgium

 

DOES ANYONE HAVE A PLAN ? (2006) (86’)

 

Seventeen ordinary people in Kosovo, Serbia & Montenegro, the Republic of

Macedonia (FYROM) and Bosnia & Herzegovina express their concern about the future of Kosovo. The region’s politicians try to answer them.

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HEYSEL 1985 – REQUIEM FOR A CUP FINAL (2005) (90’)

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Half an hour before the European Cup Final Football in 1985

39 fans died during riots in the Heysel stadium. The final was played anyway.

 

Made for: BBC2, VRT, RTBF, RAI, TSR, SVT, YLE, France2, SBS,

DR TV, Periscope Productions

 

Awards: EBU Golden Link Award, Garland of Honour at the International Sports Movies Festival in Milan, Belgian Press Award

 

Nominated for the Grierson Historical Documentary Award & the Prix Europa Golden Goal Award

 

Shown at: Hot Docs – Closing Night Film in Toronto 2005

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ODE TO LIBERTY (2003) (28`)

 

Observational film about the oldest orchestra in the Arab world trying to revive itself after the fall of Baghdad.

 

Made for: VRT/BBC World

 

MOTHER’S CROSSING (2003) (60`) 

 

Not all people smugglers are criminals. Rojanne can’t walk but a people smuggler carries her on his back across the Turkish-Greek border on their way to Europe.

 

Made for: FRANCE 2/VPRO/SVT/YLE/VRT/RTBf - Simple

Production & La Compagnie des Taxi Brousse

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Awards: FIGRA Best Documentary – France, Best Documentary Award – Brooklyn International Film Festival New York, Best Film Award – Ismailia Film Festival (Cine Magazine)

 

Shown at festivals in Geneva, Rome, Prague, Split, Amiens, Kiev & Barcelona

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MY NAME IS WILKINSON (2000) (28’)

 

Creative documentary. The skeleton of a British soldier is found near Ypres. Ninety years after he died during the first World War he finally “sees” his great grand daughters.

 

Made for: ARTE/RTBf/VRT/YLE

 

EXODUS or VINA’s WORLD (1999) (54’)                             

 

A Kurdish refugee travels back illegally to Northern Iraq with his five year old daughter so that she can visit her grandparents.

 

Made for: YLE/SVT/ARD/NPS/RTBf/VRT

 

Awards: Prix Europa 2000, Fipa d’Argent, UNDA trophy – Prix Italia, Belgian Press Award