Cinema Trottoir 2026

Molenbeek, Brussels, four older women decide to change their lives through theatre. When Fatima (65) discovers that her husband has been living a double life in Morocco for years, she refuses to disappear into sadness. She returns to a dream she abandoned 50 years earlier: performing Shakespeare’s Hamlet on stage.
Together with her friends Mériem, Romaissa and Inès, she begins a journey of friendship, self-expression and rebellion that transforms their families, their neighbourhood, and the way society sees them.

In the heart of the Gaza Strip, four men navigate different paths in search of their own definitions of existence. Their lives become intertwined through the complexities of life, love, and survival.

Spanning eight years since the onset of the Syrian conflict, Sugar Cage explores moments of solitude, apprehension, and inertia that permeate daily life. Through intimate observations, the film reflects on the emotional weight of uncertainty, waiting, and survival.

Thirteen-year-old Melrick spends the summer with his grandmother, discovering the story of Lucas, her drummer son, who has since passed away. Caught between family grief and a friend's revenge, Melrick finds his own path to forgiveness.

Every Contact Leaves a Trace is a criminal investigation conducted by people who suffer and perish under coloniality and fight back through their bodies and their stories. The film and its accompanying booklet were crafted as a mosaic of images, a palimpsest of fragmented narratives, of individuals and collectives fighting against the topographical, socio-economic, cultural, and symbolic coloniality of the “Capital of Europe.”

“Unerasable!” (97 minutes) is an essay diary documentary following the journey of a Vietnamese independent filmmaker: From putting up with state violence in Vietnam to coping with a life in exile in Scandanavia. The film had its world premiere inside the prestigious section of Tiger Competition at the International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR) in February 2026, followed by Belgian premiere in Millennium Documentary Film Festival (Belgian Competition) in April 2026, and is travelling to different festivals across the world.