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)

DOCUSPACE ONLINE CINEMA
21 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 31 — 9 
May
June 2024
Forest, Forest
DOCU/SHORT
Forest, Forest
Year
2022
Country
Ukraine
Director
Maria Stoianova
Duration
9’
DOCU/SHORT
waking up in silence
DOCU/SHORT
waking up in silence
Year
2022
Country
Germany, Ukraine
Directors
Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Duration
17'40'’
DOCU/SHORT
The Mist
DOCU/SHORT
The Mist
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Dmytro Shovkoplias
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
Ptitsa
DOCU/SHORT
Ptitsa
Year
2022
Country
Poland, Ukraine
Director
Alina Maksimenko
Duration
31’
DOCU/SHORT
Second Wind
DOCU/SHORT
Second Wind
Year
2022
Country
Ukraine
Director
Maksym Lukashov
Duration
13’
DOCU/SHORT
One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas
DOCU/SHORT
One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas
Year
2022
Country
France, Ukraine
Director
Marta Smerechynska
Duration
8’
DOCU/SHORT
Are You Here?
DOCU/SHORT
Are You Here?
Year
2023
Country
Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Ukraine
Director
Zlata Veresniak
Duration
13’
DOCU/SHORT
I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv
DOCU/SHORT
I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv
Year
2022
Country
Belgium, Ukraine, Portugal, Hungary
Director
Daryna Mamaisur
Duration
17’
DOCU/SHORT
Chornobyl 22
DOCU/SHORT
Chornobyl 22
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Oleksiy Radynski
Duration
20’
DOCU/SHORT
Mariupol. A Hundred Nights
DOCU/SHORT
Mariupol. A Hundred Nights
Year
2022
Country
Ukraine
Director
Sofiia Melnyk
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT