MAMAN,
16mm & digital 4k, color, 16:9, french spoken, BE, 2025, 15’
​MAMAN, is a documentary in the form of a love letter from a son to his mother. What begins as an attempt to tell her story - from how she, at the age of seven, moved from her hometown of Likasi to Brussels and as an act of rebellion didn’t speak for one year to her lifelong dream of being a photographer - slowly transforms into something else. The film is built around her voice, recorded as she reads the letter aloud for the first time. That single, intimate recording became the voice-over of the film.                                                                                           

VOICE-OVER Silvie Duarte                                                                                   SOUND Niko Wei, Rick Van Oss, Remco Ardui                               PHOTOGRAPHY Niko Wei, Théo Guéret, Remco Ardui                                GRADING Théo Guéret                                                                               

AWARDS Best Belgian Student Short FILM FEST GENT 2025                                                                                                                                                
SCREENINGS FILM FEST GENT Kinepolis Ghent (BE) 12 October 2025 — BEAUTIES & TALKERS Kassé Brussels (BE) 12 October 2025 —  FILM FEST GENT Sphinx Cinema Ghent (BE) 16 October 2025 —BREEDBEELD (invited by Yanco) DeCinema Antwerp (BE) 8 November 2025 — COURTISANE FESTIVAL Sphinx Cinema Ghent (BE) 5 April 2026 — JEUNE CINEMA BELGE Pianofabriek Brussel (BE) 27 octobre 2026 CORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Invited by Aemi) Granary Theatre (IE) 13 November 2026                                    
PRESS Yanco — Bruzz — Amplo
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