Program
Another audiovisual feast, with four shorts-in-progress and one newly completed feature film, each of them listening differently in its own way.
18:30 (doors)
19:00 Works-in-Progress SIC 2025
20:30 (break)
21:00 The Original Karina Beumer
22:00 Q&A with Karina Beumer
22:30 (end)
Part 1: Works-in-progress
19:00 – Works-in-Progress SIC 2025
a selection of projects currently in development by SIC participants
80 min
GALAN, by Mantra Watsa
An Indian woman recovering from a miscarriage revisits the horror films of her childhood and notices unsettling parallels between the women’s accidents on screen and the scars on her own body. Writing letters to her estranged mother, she links her land and her body as sites of gendered violence, blurring the lines between reality, memory, and myth.
Set against the backdrop of nationwide demonstrations against gender-based violence, Galan intertwines personal trauma with a larger critique of Indian society. It explores how the female body, both sacred and systematically oppressed, becomes a battleground for power, resistance, and cultural narratives.
INSERTION POINT, by Anna Lawan
The starting point is a simple question: do you really see me? I have gap teeth and freckles, but you can’t see those right away. What you see is my dark skin and curly hair. Point d’insertion is a first-person essay that explores the subtle and complex mechanisms of so-called everyday racism. The film is a dual quest: to explore this gray area in order to make it visible, and to understand how it has shaped my identity.
THE STORY WE KNOW, by Aurélie Leporcq
Revisiting the house where I was born and where my father died, allows me to re-read the family story. I’m 7 years old. Our house, which my father had been renovating for years, burns down. He decides to rebuild it a second time.
What I would understand much later is that he was, at the same time, building a story in which he was going to lock us up. Through forty years of archives, I establish that a domination was exercised inside the house. An emancipation process is then underway.
THE HOLY DAY, by Mattia Petullà
Nino lives in a village in the Ionian Aspromonte of Calabria, where Ancient Greek has been passed down orally for millennia and is now spoken only by a few elders. Like so many others, Nino once left in search of a better life but returned to this austere, majestic place he cannot abandon. His presence guides us through a landscape that is both hostile and enchanting.
Through a series of timeless moments, the boundaries between humans, animals, and nature begin to blur.
Part 2: The Original Karina Beumer
21:00 – The Original Karina Beumer
screening of a newly completed SIC film
61 min, followed by a Q&A with the director
What if you could post an ad to have someone take your place in your own life? Karina Beumer puts the idea to the test, reshaping her everyday reality with Michel Gondry–like inventiveness. The replies she receives expose unsettling truths: undocumented people seeking legal status, an unemployed woman dismissed as “too old”, …
Beneath its humor, the film unfolds as a poetic and political reflection on identity, creativity, and the fragile space each of us occupies — or fails to occupy — in society.
DE ORIGINELE KARINA BEUMER, 61′, KARINA BEUMER: Anouk Heltzel, Elizabeth Hansen, Julie Boellaard, Kees-Jan Mulder, Brian Kantt, Romy Moons, Marnix Vinkenborg, Maria Sawizki, Carolien Dekker, Chris A. — CAST Inge Beumer, Sofie Letitre, Bart Vanderbiesen. — MONTAGE Tessel Flora de Vries — SOUNDDESIGN AND MUSIC Igor Kłaczyński —ARTISTIC ADVICE Victoria Vergult, Effi Weiss, Jan Reimus, Randa Peters — CAMERA Judith Boeschoten, Hannah Bailliu — SOUND Gizem Karaosmanoğlu, Suzanne Boekestijn — ADDITIONAL CAMERA Ilse van Loon, Jelle Coolen, Chloé Op de Beeck — ADDITIONAL SOUND David Ferral, Franco van der Linde — PRODUCTION Studio Ruba: Layla Meijman, Maarten van de Van, Marcelle Bartels, Mireille Rooijendijk, Julia Rombout — POSTER AND DESIGN Elisabeth Enthoven — COLORIST Rachel Stone — THANKS VPRO, NPO, Mondriaan Fonds, Soundimageculture, Geen Pijn, Videopower, to all applicants and to Annelein Pompe.
Practical Information
Date: Saturday 13 September 2025
Time: 19:00–22:30
Venue: Beursschouwburg (rue Auguste Orts, Brussels)
Tickets give access to the entire program (works-in-progress + The Original Karina Beumer)