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Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.

They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.

Follows Marieke Vervoot, a champion athlete suffering from reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The pain and incurability of this degenerative condition prompted Marieke to opt for euthanasia - a legal option for end-of-life care in Belgium.

12-year old Felix runs his own radio show: Radio Felix. Not only in his dreams: he reports daily on hot political issues and exciting tennis games, emerging from his own imagination. Actually, Felix has autism, which leads him sometimes into difficult situations at school. He uses Radio Felix as a tool to get a clearer view on his condition and to deal with the confrontations at school.

Wilfried refers to himself as 'king one-eye in the land of the blind'. This land lays in Merksplas' prison in Belgium and the blind are the internees who reside in the prison without treatment. Mentally ill criminals in Belgium are not held responsible for their actions but become separated from society. There criminal acts range from murder to stabbing fire of a bike. Due to the lack of places in psychiatric hospitals they end up in prison without any possibility for therapy nor end date. Their files mention as date of release: 31/12/9999. 9999 intertwines five different stories of these 'blind.' These men are waiting; for comfort, for hope, for freedom, for change. The time between their prison bars is altogether different from the time outside the prison walls. Time is annihilated. The only thing that remains is an eternal confrontation; a confrontation with their deeds and with their illness. There is nothing else. In this film we disappear, together with the characters in need of treatment, behind the inexorable closed doors. We wait side by side.

At the end of the world, three men face the southern sea and its dangers. They leave their families, brave the cold and the storms to meet isolated fishermen in the sadly famous islands of the far south of Chile.

Elephant's Dream is a portrait about three State-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo, providing insight into their daily lives and survival in the third largest city of Africa, Kinshasa.

2013, the 100th edition of the Tour de France. But what if the greatest race of all times has yet not taken place? The King of Mont Ventoux pits five cycling heroes against each other during the Tour de France in an unprecedented race beyond the bounds of time. Crossing the verge of sports, the documentary explores the extraordinary evolution of competitive cycling over the last 40 years. Who will become the king of the Mont Ventoux ? Merckx, Bernard, Virenque, Pantani or Garate ?

On the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship with her: a relationship that made him a free individual, as a man and as a filmmaker. The second night is the final part of a trilogy that began with Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter, which was followed by Dreaming films. The making of this " Cabin Trilogy" is the fruit of fifteen years of work and reflection.

'I was raised by a Kurdish activist', filmmaker Nevine recounts. For the last 40 years her mother, Pervine Jamil, has been running her Kurdish Bureau in Brussels. Her main activity - still today at the age of 80 - is publishing her monthly newsletter, in which she communicates about the Kurdish struggle around the world. Nevine's childhood was dominated by her mother's dream of a free Kurdistan. Pervine inherited this dream from her father, Ekrem Cemil Pasha, one of the founders of the modern Kurdish movement. His grandfather was a pasha in Diyarbakir but after the fall of the Ottoman Empire their family was betrayed and exiled by Atatürk. Nevine's mother Pervine was raised in exile where she sacrificed her life for the Kurdish cause. Will she be the last in line of this dynasty to fight for their long-lasting family legacy? Will the burden of this legacy, passed on from generation to generation, fade with the filmmaker? Nevine's dilemma is emphasized when she gives birth, and a new generation is born.

As Simeon, a young Dominican caregiver now living in Belgium, grows closer to a couple of ladies at a retirement home, events take an increasingly magic-realistic turn.

Zaad (Seed) is the story about a man dealing with the heredity of his father's mental illness.

Together with a Belgian research team, Kushlani Dissanayake, a young Sri Lankan scientist and mother, goes on an expedition in the waters around Sri Lanka in order to collect crucial information to protect the coral reefs from perishing. Gathering DNA-samples of corals, she tries to uncover the distribution patterns of the coral populations and their larvae. Through the professional endeavor and personal story of Kushlani, we discover the deep waters around Sri Lanka, as well as her view on motherhood, human kind and a theory on 'the survival of the kindest'.

Particle physicists are now heading toward the wide open and unmapped field of the "unknown unknowns".

Aiko, a 10-year old girl, is heading into town after the lock down, in search of new stories for her vlog. Amidst the sounds of the city, she hears music. Her curiosity leads to encounters all over the city with children expressing their feelings through music and rhythm. Together with her new friends, Aiko celebrates childhood on the rooftops of Brussels through music, singing, dancing and beat boxing. A multi-colored musical city trip.

Inside Mali's head, everything is dancing. She's a bgirl, 'breaking' her way from battle to battle. But she's looking for more. Only 14, she has moved to the big city, to live with her older sister. She lives close to her new school now, where dance is a major. But can this bgirl handle all the other dance styles? And will her body cope with the physical strain? The tough bgirl is also an insecure teenager, seeking to express her individuality, through dance.

Lost Down Memory Lane is the first author's documentary about living with Alzheimer's, seen exclusively through the eyes of people who suffer from it. Eight of them live together under constant supervision and care. They are all in the first phase of the disease: bouts of lucidity, forgetfulness and falling into oblivion constantly alternate. The patients live their lives, as long as they're capable. The film is a 'tranche de vie': a portrait of the daily coming and going of people in that particular and ditto state. It is also the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory from the characters. Eventually the characters will have changed. Because of their illness, they may have been disappeared completely, physically or mentally.

Two old brothers are trying to get rich growing flax. They are hard and hardworking men, living in post-industrial Flanders-Belgium as if time stood still. While the brothers ignore the changing world around them, their rural village transforms and suburbia closes them in. And there is more: in the past, they have always pretended to be deaf to the subject of environmental licensees. But those days are gone. The local authorities want to shut down the flax mill and their habitat is in danger of being destroyed. Everything is about to change. Will the flax men adapt or disappear?

Romy has to say goodbye to her classmates because she's going to France. She's not going on holiday; she's going to France to work. Her family's traveling circus will set up camp in an amusement park for a few months. Romy's days are filled with activity. In addition to performing, she must also do homework and practice new circus tricks. Luckily, she also finds some time to relax. There's nothing that Romy and Quintin enjoy more than running around the amusement park after it has closed. In a letter to her classmates, Romy talks about the ups and downs of the life of a circus artist and her big dreams.

"Beyond the Ararat" is the story of a woman of Turkish origin who embarks on a journey to better understand what makes up her identity. A road movie which brings her from her childhood neighborhood in Brussels to Turkey and Armenia. A quest where each woman she encounters could be the reflection of herself. Entering the land of her ancestors, Anatolia, she questions her cultural heritage. Stopping in her grandmother's village, she discovers the "Agit"; an antique oral tradition where women sing for their dead. The songs open a potential space for mourning, where Turkish, Kurdish but also Armenian women missing from that land, can sing "together". The confrontation with the "missing" from her memory, brings her farther eastward in Anatolia to the foot of the Ararat Mountain, and beyond.

A short science documentary, searching for the lost island of Testerep in front of the Belgian coast, venturing into artificial landscapes and virtual realities.