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The dialogue is based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of them movie-makers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Unio...

From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed (in the Polish fashion), also called in yiddish (Gefilte Fish) is a traditional dish eate...

A wordless travel on a barge from Clabecq to Ruisbroek. This is the Boris Lehman’s student movie done for the INSAS school....

Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte)....

The filmmaker does an inventory of the objects he has received from his friends or relatives. Through that variety of things that binds him and his beloved ones together, he tries to take interest in the notion of identity in an indirect, metonymic a...

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Shot with direct sound, Villofolie presents six people giving a monologue in a destroyed and dehumanized city: Brussels. The film dissects itself to reflect on mental illness and the inability to communicate. The group of people portrayed share feeli...

The last day of the life of German Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The director re-routes Walter Benjamin between Cerberus and Port-Bou before his suicide. When we started shooting, the director's camera was stolen. The f...

Histoire de mes cheveux ended with a shot where I found myself locked in a concentration camp. I had said shortly before that I was glad I finally arrived home. A song of hope, however, echoed with a fantasized happy ending (Hollywood kiss) and a son...

From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends...

Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment. He t...

Adrienne is not my mother. She is not Jewish. I met her five years ago, at Edouard’s, where I’d gone to ask my friend to lend me a dinner jacket for the premiere of my film “Life Lessons”. She came to see the film and we began to meet often (Boris Le...

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The film is the cinematic encounter of two looks (that of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and that of the filmmaker Boris Lehman) with one voice: that of the singer Esther Lamandier (who goes by the same name as Arié: Mandelbaum means «I'amandier»)....

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II ...

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A boat ride to celebrate a birthday with friends becomes the pretext for a film shoot. A family film that quickly turns into a fable and a biblical tale. It is the story of Noah's Ark, braving the flood and saving a few remnants of humanity, which is...

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