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Our Territory

Year
2019
Country
Belgium
Duration
20’
Director
Mathieu Volpe

When I got to Rignano, the ghetto residents told me: "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display." The misery in the ghetto is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I wanted to show.

CREW:
Director: Mathieu Volpe
Producer: Serge Kestemont, Olivier Burlet
Cinematographer: Mathieu Volpe
Editor: Pauline Piris-Nury
Sound: Jean-Noël Boissé
Production
Luna blue film, Gsara asbl
Sales:
Gsara asbl
Awards
2019 – Festival Signes de Nuit, Best Short Film; Retro Avant Garde Film Festival, Best Retro Short Film
Director
Mathieu Volpe

Mathieu Volpe was born in Rome in 1990 and lived in Bari, in the very south of Italy, until he was nineteen. In 2009 he moved to Brussels to study directing at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. His graduation film, Il segreto del serpente (2014), has been selected by several international festivals such as the Torino Film Festival, Filmer à tout prix, Lussas and Huesca.

Selected Filmography

Il segreto del serpente (2014), Our Territory (2019)

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19.91
Year
2019
Country
Poland
Director
Emilia Śniegoska
Duration
25’
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A Club Called Willpower
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A Club Called Willpower
Year
2018
Country
Netherlands
Director
Nina Karim van Oort
Duration
23’
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All Cats Are Grey in the Dark
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All Cats Are Grey in the Dark
Year
2019
Country
Switzerland
Director
Lasse Linder
Duration
18’
DOCU/SHORT
Circulation
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Circulation
Year
2020
Country
Ukraine, UK
Director
Oleksiy Radynski
Duration
10’
DOCU/SHORT
Family²
DOCU/SHORT
Family²
Year
2019
Country
Poland
Director
Yifan Sun
Duration
25’
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Greykey
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Greykey
Year
2019
Country
Spain
Director
Enric Ribes
Duration
28’
DOCU/SHORT
inside • outside
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inside • outside
Year
2019
Country
France
Director
Charlotte Ballet-Baz and Alice Boccara-Lefèvre
Duration
16’
DOCU/SHORT
Scenes from a Transient Home
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Scenes from a Transient Home
Year
2019
Country
South Africa
Director
Roger Horn
Duration
13’
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Stunned, I Remain Alert
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Stunned, I Remain Alert
Year
2020
Country
Brazil
Directors
Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos,
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
zong
DOCU/SHORT
zong
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Directors
Elias Parvulesco, Teta Tsybulnyk, Svitlana Pototska
Duration
9’
DOCU/SHORT
A Friday’s Monday
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A Friday’s Monday
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Director
Ivanna Prokopchuk
Duration
11’
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