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Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.
This film is an African “Boyhood” that gives an insight to the political and historical situation of Burundi throughout the last 24 years through the eyes of six street children that now have become adults.
France in the fifties. The teenage orphan Sylvie is put in an institution for "fallen" or endangered girls, subjected to harsh treatment by the bigoted nuns who run the institution like a prison. Sylvie befriends a girl who wants to escape.
Manon de Boer films the dancer Cynthia Loemij, who improvises to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 Sonates for Violin Solo.
Neighbors at first, Emma and Sacha became lovers in the attic room of the house that was divided between their two families. Their relationship led to the birth of a daughter, Paulette. But a few years later, they separated. Paulette lives with her mother and sees her father every second weekend. During the festive season, the divorce agreement requires that Paulette spend Christmas with her father’s family and New Year’s Eve with her mother’s family.
