CSE 2024

Bye Bye Tiberias

, Lina Soualem //Gabi was trying to debug
Hiam Abbass left her Palestinian village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her daughter Lina, a filmmaker, returns with her to trace the lost places and scattered memories of four generations of Palestinian women.
, Colonialism, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, Portrait, War
CSE 2024

La ferme des Bertrand

, Gilles Perret //Gabi was trying to debug
50 years on a farm... Haute Savoie, 1972: the Bertrand farm, a dairy farm with around a hundred animals run by three single brothers, is filmed for the first time. Now, 25 years later, the director-neighbor takes up the camera again to accompany Hélène, who in turn is about to hand over the reins.
, Agriculture, Environnement, Portrait, Rurality, Sociology
CSE 2024

People of the sea

, Vincent L'hérault //Gabi was trying to debug
During the short lobster season, fishermen and plant workers are the economic mainstays of the Magdalen Islands. In a market dominated by the United States, the fragility of the fishery and the future of seafaring and island culture are obvious.
, Culture, Economy, Work
CSE 2024

Boat People

, Kjell Boersma, Thao Lam //Gabi was trying to debug
As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour. Boat People is an animated documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family’s flight across the turbulent waters of history.
, Human Rights, Migration, War
CSE 2024

Le balai libéré

, Coline Grando //Gabi was trying to debug
In the 1970s, cleaning ladies from the Catholic University of Louvain threw out their employer and founded Le Balai Libéré, a cleaning cooperative. Decades later, today's staff question the relevance of bossless work by meeting these pioneers.
, Democracy, Economy, Feminism, Work