Internationale Filmfestivals und ihr Profil – Courtisane Festival Gent – Film als Frage

Four Walls

Vier muren (Four Walls) is an essay on the housing problem and shortage in Amsterdam in the mid 1960s. The film features residents who visit the Public Housing Department to air their grievances. It also shows the houses where they live under wretched conditions in an attempt to establish a link between the physical living space and the mental space that determines the emotional state and health.

• Niederlande
• 00:22:00
• Director: Johan van der Keuken
• Languages: nl
• Subtitles: en
• Year: 1965

Kosmos

Up until November 2013, the Gesù convent in Brussels was home to around 250 people including a number of Roma families originating from Slovakia. Over the months leading up to their impending eviction, Ruben Desiere worked with some of the inhabitants to create a film. It focuses on the family of Kevin Mroč who had been living at Gesù for three years, and also features two newcomers, Mižu Balász en Rastjo Vaňo. On the eve of the eviction order, director Desiere is waiting inside the building with the many refugees and squatters. A documentary between fiction and reality, which portrays the lives of people on the verge of losing their home. Kosmos is loosely based on the book of the same name by Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, for whom a casual trip to Argentina in 1939 unexpectedly turned into 25 years of exile.

• Belgien
• 01:00:47
• Director:  Ruben Desiere
• Languages: ro,fr,nl
• Subtitles: en
• Year: 2014