Fruits de Merde

Short film Wouter De Paepe directed for the song "Sheep" by The Muttons.

When Sam (19) has sex with a girl one night against his will, he feels completely confused. Six months later, he still cannot manage to talk about this and struggles with his own idea of masculinity.

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COPY PASTE is a documentary that unveils the world in which children grow up with tablets as digital babysitters, surrounded by adults who are constantly staring at screens. As children mimic this behavior in their desire to grow up, the film raises pressing questions about the impact of this modern parenting model on their development and future.

Mateo lives in a small village near the crater of a volcano. As the volcano awakens, Alejandra, his love, sees it as an opportunity to leave and explore the world outside, while Mateo wishes to stay. As everything threatens to fall apart, Mateo realizes he has nowhere left to hide, not even behind the volcano.

In April 2020, 19-year-old Adil was killed when his motor scooter collided with a police car in the Cureghem quarter of Brussels. He had been attempting to evade a Covid check during the pandemic. The acquittal of the two officers responsible for the chase prompted riots. The neighborhood was left angry and grieving, with their questions unanswered.

A lost woman wanders through Brussels. She looks for a familiar face, but only encounters streets that no longer exist. When a mysterious man tells her about a forecasted solar storm, the strange day falls ominously in to place.

Even though Ghent was voted cycling city of the year, a fundamental problem remains unsolved. We are talking about the sad fate of countless old, abandoned and neglected bikes.

Percy and Otis wander through Belgium – one is homeless, the other is looking for freedom. But then Otis makes a cryptic phone call, and Percy’s trust starts to waver.

Summer feels endless as Marthe travels through the Ardennes with her friends in the late nineties. While they laugh, drink and drift through long days, her thoughts stay with her sick sister at home. The further they drive, the heavier the silence grows.

A young man who survived a 15-meter fall revisits the site, accompanied by individuals who share a similar past.