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Thematic programmes - Looking for Homeland
“This film is above all about my mother, my mother who is no longer with us. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938 , fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the violence. This woman who is only ever seen inside her apartment. An apartment in Brussels. A film about a world in motion that my mother does not see.” Chantal Akerman
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Cast:
Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman -
Country:
Belgium, France -
Year:
2015 - 115 min Subtitles PT and EN
Director
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) was a Belgian filmmaker of Jewish origin who not only made fiction, experimental, documentary and essay films, and but also created videos and installations. Akerman, known as a pioneer of modern feminist cinema, made her first short film, Saute ma Ville (1968), at the age of 18, and by the age of 25 directed her first feature Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974). This was followed by many other films, notably Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Nuit et Jour (1991), nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Là-bas (2006), leading to her latest work, No Home Movie (2015), a documentary about her mother in the months leading up to her death.