Films produced by Cobra Films

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere....

Flying over the city’s roofs the voice of an African storyteller takes us from one encounter to antoher in the everyday life of Brussels’...

Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the...

2009 documentary by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, set in Belgium, Senegal, the Ardennes and Western Sahara.

The evocative narration of Charlotte Rampling guides a descent into the labyrinthine world of Chris Marker, the best-known author of unknown films,...

Human beings who have experienced such a strong shock that they are no longer even afraid of death (as it often happens to genocide survivors)...

The flim follows Congolese artist/photographer Mekhar Kivoso as he explores the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, during its...

Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied...

Le Cercle des noyés is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisoned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata....

Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those...

Arbres is the story of the Tree and trees. It begins with the Origins and then embarks upon a journey through the world of the tree and the trees of...

Hélène, a struggling young actress, is trying to learn the text of the 'Lady From the Sea' by heart. At the same time she is emptying...

How do Europeans deal with their recent dark history (the wars, dictatorships and occupations)? What traces are etched?

Like a puzzle, this film works on different elements: a guided tour in the waste lands of three cities (Brussels, Hamburg, Roma), a documentary about...

The intersecting story of four notarial situations in a law office in Haute - Auvergne. Through the story of two negotiated sales, an inventory and...

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as...

In the wings of the opera "Maraina", the film combines history and oral memory, to recount in music the first contacts between the natives in the...

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere....

Flying over the city’s roofs the voice of an African storyteller takes us from one encounter to antoher in the everyday life of Brussels’...

Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the...

2009 documentary by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, set in Belgium, Senegal, the Ardennes and Western Sahara.