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What do a kidney stone, a volcano in Cape Verde and an English geologist have in common? This is the riddle posed by this puzzle-like film that invites us to examine the link between the human body and the planet.

An anonymous old man wakes up in a sanatorium at an unspecified location. He suffers from amnesia induced by a virus. The people call it the "night" because it steals memories and leaves only darkness. The State steps in with a new program that can store memories and begins to harvest them all, "just in case." But is the virus really of natural origin? Or was it engineered to provide the next generation with a fresh start (and the State with an easily controlled population)? Quarantine, resistance, riots - Slowly but surely, the old man starts questioning the authenticity of his own memories, while growing increasingly conscious of another truth. Essayistic and experimental, NIGHT HAS COME takes you on a fictional journey only a step away from reality.

The people in Forres don't work. Between 9 and 5, they dissolve into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin arrives into town. He has come to this remote corner of Europe to hide and lie low. The film blends fiction, documentary and a literary essay of a man looking for a fresh start, aiming for a fair chance. In his pure and existential aim to belong somewhere, he is a hazard to himself and his surrounding.

Dutch artist Renzo Martens spent three years traveling throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking the question: "Who owns poverty?"

A film crew follow a group of children that live rough on Kinshasa's streets. The children are thought of as shegues, or witches, by many adults including their families. The kids' desire is to make money and music.

A social housing block on the brink of demolition. Those seeking a way out of their misery jump from the roof, those unable to find a home elsewhere, land one here. In this small, high-rise community, where indifference reigns supreme.

"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse." Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as a political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally what is death. A journey through the history of medical imaging and a reflection on the recent death of the director's mother in the decorations of post-Soviet Russia. Getting under the skin of the viewer, the film attempts to comprehend the complex subject of corporeality. The title Bile refers to the physical and mental conditions of the human being. In fact, black bile comes from the old Greek for melancholy: melas cholè.

La classe operaia, come quella delle piantagioni in Congo, può trarre beneficio dall'arte, invece di esserne vittima attraverso la gentrificazione?

A French encyclopaedist tries to complete his life's work from beyond death. N is a story of an unusual obsession. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.

A Belgian couple waits in an empty hotel in the Carpathian mountains. She suffers from a lingering illness. He helps her find her peace. Left alone, he escapes reality and starts to wander. DRIFT explores his quest for salvation on a mythical journey through a barren Romanian wasteland. Fighting his memories, the drifting man chooses not to speak and to loose himself in an animal-like and primitive existence. His simple but painful rituals echo an ancient culture long forgotten. As the past reveals itself, insanity sets in. Slowly, he disappears as well.

In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the cur Baatar is shot by a hunter hired by the authorities to get rid off the dogs in the city. Its soul recalls its life, when it was a shepherd dog of a family and was abandoned in the field and walked to the city. Then it recalls when it meets a young woman that is near to have a baby.

Fatiha is on the verge of marrying the man chosen for her long ago, but her fiance's disturbing views shock her. He believes that, in the eyes of Islam, even a kiss of the hand is forbidden before marriage.

The film starts in Nalaikh where old Mongolchaan is one of the many former miners who - after the closure of the mine - continues digging for coal in order to survive. Despite the extremely severe working conditions, he perseveres to support his children. Mongolchaan sells his coal to Basandorj, a middleman between the coal pits and the power stations in the city. Basandorj delivers the coal to a power station where young Erdenetsetseg is in charge. Despite the harsh environment, she enjoys her life and work. The electricity produced by the power plant enlightens blind Amarjarkhal's apartment. Ever since she moved from Nalaikh to the capital she makes a living as a writer and performer of popular songs. On a trip back to her native town, Amarjarkhal expresses her desire to be able to see. Meanwhile, Oyuna, who lives in Belgium ever since she married a Belgian man, is preparing to return to her home country which she left eight years ago. She's eager to show her native land to her 3-year old son... Through poetry Mongolchaan praises nature, Erdenetsetseg evokes man's destiny, Amarjarkhal expresses individual desire, and Oyuna finds the strength to survive in a foreign country. Poets of Mongolia is the third part of Inti Films' Mongolia Trilogy (City of the Steppes (1994), State of Dogs (1997)).

The general Flemish education system can no longer refuse to accept pupils who have disabilities, conditions, or handicaps and require extra care. The M-Decree obliges schools to adapt to the needs of children. This documentary observes in beautiful black and white how four children with different special needs experience going to a normal school. Inclusief is not a rushed TV report or reality series that panders to your emotions, but a carefully made, cinematic film that offers an intimate insight into the lives of four children, Rosie, Sami, Irakli and Nathan.

Ellen Vermeulen's latest documentary, Une femme qui part, studies the remarkable Marie-Louise Chapelle, the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas in 1952. Chapelle led a double life, being a mother for six months a year and braving unclimbed mountains the other six. Seventy years later, Vermeulen repeats this difficult climb. Driven by Chapelle's archive of diaries, letters, and footage, Vermeulen traverses the inhospitable snow landscapes with her camera that have been changed beyond recognition by time and climate. She interweaves footage she shot herself with Chapelle's archive material and reflects on her own life questions: a life with children, or without? Une femme qui part explores the tension between personal ambitions and social inequality and exposes the limitations women are often confined by. An intimate search for meaning, in which time, memories, and choices become deeply intertwined. A film about limits, desires, and the complexity of being a woman.

In the year 2000, the Hungarian river Tisza was flooded with tons of cyanide from an Australian-Romanian gold mine. Fishermen like Balazs Meszaros struggled to survive. In an effort to save his people and their way of life, Balazs travels to Australia to confront the mining company responsible for destroying his livelihood.

A story about dreams and the manipulative power of films in a chaotic Kyrgyzstan, seen through the eyes of two cinema projectionists. The Kyrgyz town of Naryn is preparing for the 1000-year anniversary of Manas, their national hero. The complicated preparations are upset as a group of Islamic rebels invade Kyrgyzstan. The work and dreams of the film's protagonists, projectionists named Zarylbek and Murat, epitomise the present and the past in Kyrgyzstan, struggling through a process of transition. Through their eyes, we see a story that reflects the manipulative power that films exert on a colourful people influenced by socialism, the market economy, the Islamic faith and their nomadic culture.

Drifting with the wonderful blooming of millions of mayflies on the waves of the Tisza river, "Vita Brevis" is a poem of the moment, an evocation of the fragile and fleeting dance of life.

A Belgian couple attempts to process the disappearance of their adopted son, who went missing after travelling into the wild. Through personal diaries of the absent boy, the film unravels the reasons behind his departure, bringing to life a complex thinker with strong ideals. While the police make a final attempt to solve the case, the boy's parents try to anticipate every possible outcome, but are they both ready to let go?

Recorded in 1985 at the Camden Palace as part of the 'Live From London' series, Nazareth open their set with Dan McCafferty belting out 'Telegram' in his signature gruff vocal style. Featuring all four original members of the band (McCafferty, Charlton, Agnew and Sweet), Nazareth treats us to an intimate, powerful performance of their hits - 'Razamanaz','This Flight Tonight' and 'Love Hurts'.

An alternative creation myth of the small Caucasian Republic of Abkhazia sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world on fire: What is a country?

Seventeen year old Mamebou lives in the last house in a dead-end street in Brussels. His drug addiction, poverty, and negative self-image prevent him from getting his life back on track. L'île déserte is an uncompromising but intimate dark portrait of a youngster trying to cope with his destiny.

Shepherd tells the story of a remarkable and most unconventional shepherd: Ludo Van Alphen, who wanders around with his flock of sheep - the largest flock in Belgium - in the industrial badlands of the port of Antwerp.