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- In the 19th century, America was the land of hope and the future for millions of Europeans. Thousands of peasants from Belgium and Luxembourg set off for adventure in America, at the edges of the known world. They built homes and reconstructed living areas modeled after life back home. They clung to their identities and language and called their towns Belgium, Luxemburg, Rollingstone... Luxemburg, USA is a contemporary portrait of the Midwest, of America's conservative rural heartland, seen through the prism of a specific community, that of the Luxembourg immigrants' descendents, their lives today, and their history.
- Ashcan tells the story of the secret prison where the main Nazi leaders were incarcerated following the Allied victory on 8 May 1945.
- In the middle of the XIXth century, the Occident developed a passion for tea. But China was the only tea producer and seller. For five thousand years, it was jealously guarding the manufacturing secrets and refused to share them. The Britannic Empire, then at its peak, launched an extraordinary spying mission: steal the secrets of tea to Imperial China. This mission was given to a young and brilliant Scottish botanist: Robert Fortune.
- The moving testimony of Andrée Geulen tells the story of twelve Belgian women, and the way in which they organized themselves in occupied Belgium to save thousands of children during WWII.
- From Auschwitz to Jerusalem tells the story of Jewish children. Hidden children, often converted to the catholic religion so they could survive the genocide. After the war, many of them, who had become orphans, were collected by the Jewish Agency and placed in reception centres in Belgium. This was the beginning for them of a long trip, real as well as symbolic, searching for their lost Jewish identity. A trip which would clandestinely lead them all the way to Palestine.
- The moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states.
- Portrait of the Jews of Rhodes, whose ancestors found refuge there after their expulsion from Spain in the 15th century. For five centuries, Jews lived in Rhodes until their community was destroyed during World War II.
- Discover a taste tantalizing celebration of the world of chocolate. The film evokes the sensuality and passion of chocolate, its democratization and the never-ending quest of generations of chocolatiers to develop new flavors and fillings.
- In 1939, European Jews lucky enough to escape the Nazis had only one place in the world to go that did not require an exit visa: Shanghai. Escape to the Rising Sun tells the little-known story of nearly 5,000 Jews who reached Shanghai.
- Tells the history of the classic lunch box in Belgium, in which you can mostly find toasts with a variety of spreads.
- Between 1942 and 1944 some 24,916 Jews were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. The roundups and deportations were organised and carried out by the Nazis with the - not always conscious - cooperation of Belgian authorities. The attitude of the authorities here varied from outright resistance to voluntary or unwitting collaboration.
- Victor Martin's mission tells a unique adventure. October 1942, Victor Martin is sent in Germany by the Belgian resistance, so he can see with his own eyes where the deportation trains bring the Jews. His mission would lead him to the doors of Auschwitz. The film was made like a historical road-movie, mixing original drawings, archives, and new testimonies.
- Nazi Germany occupied the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944, with the intention of returning the Luxembourgers to their so-called German roots. Paradoxically, this attempt to incorporate Luxembourg into the Third Reich triggered the nation's self-awareness. Using mostly unseen archive footage, the film tells the story of the clash between ideologies: the Nazi vision of a 'German' Luxembourg, colliding violently with the idea of an independent Grand Duchy. For a people who where becoming aware of their national identity, this was a huge cultural shock. The emotional backbone of the film rests on the many testimonies of the people who lived through that tragic period: those who took part in the only general strike ever organised against the Nazi occupant, those who were enlisted into the German army and were forced to fight their allies on the Russian front, those who joined the many small resistance groups dedicated to hiding, at the risk of their lives, the young Luxembourgers who managed to escape forced conscription into the Wehrmacht, and those who survived deportation into labour and concentration camps.
- The Comic Strip Hits 100 consecrates the comic strip as a real form of art. The heart of the film is based on the relations between the comic strip and the other arts : painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema. Between meetings and interviews with the genre's masters : Morris, Moebius, Druillet, Schuiten, Théo van den Boogaard, Frank Pé... The Comic Strip Hits 100 shows us, with thematical and chronological sequences, different sides of the comic strip world, presented by the American novelist Jérôme Charyn.
- Shows the mysterious path of tea from its harvest to your house, and into the cup. Seen through the eyes of merchants and specialists, we discover the international tea market, its production sites, and traditional tea auctions.
- Born in Germany, and now living in Belgium, Siegi Hirsch has been a major influence on psychiatry and psychotherapy in Europe. Through his work as a teacher and psychotherapist, he contributes to our absolutely necessary collective memory.
- The great European Yiddish song artists Karsten Troyke, Myriam Fuks, Shura Lipovsky, and klezmer band KlezRoym give an unforgettable concert in Brussels, Belgium, on March 16, 2005.