Part of the Tribunal26 — Brussels & Antwerp, 25-28 March 2026
Ex Utero
A documentary by Lili Forestier. Produced by Nébuleuses ASBL, 2024 (French, English subtitles)
Film screening (1hr15) & discussion with Lili Forestier
Ex Utero navigates between a certain history of gynaecology and contemporary testimonies. Facing us, responding to centuries of practice, women testify to one thing in common: having been confronted one day with gynaecological abuse.
Both an intimate and historical account, the film uses visuals borrowed from drawings, engravings, paintings and photographs spanning 10 centuries.
The result of rigorous documentary research, Ex Utero crosses three time periods and three places. The Middle Ages in Belgium, the 18th century in Alabama in the United States and the 20th century in Auschwitz, Poland. Making films is also about reporting on the world around us and hoping for change.
Ex Utero takes a feminist, adelphic and inclusive look at a pain that is still too often silenced in gynaecological surgeries today.
The film will be followed by a discussion and debate with the Director Lili Forestier, and with the participation of Hanan Ben (OUMI) and Mawda Abbas (GAMS).
Language: French & Dutch
Bunch of Crazy Girls (Bandes d’Hysteriques)
A documentary by Kita Bauchet. Produced by Altitude100 Production, 2025 (French, Dutch subtitles)
Film screening (1hr27) & discussion with Kita Bauchet
Mirroring our post-#MeToo era, the film tells the little-known story of the women’s liberation movements in Belgium in the 1970s. Our feminine heritage emerges with humor and insolence, through the irreverent actions of Dolle Mina in Flanders, the support for female miners from Marie Mineur in Wallonia, and the films of Chantal Akerman, a 25-year-old Brussels native who revolutionized cinema. The images of these struggles and encounters, with the women who led them, sheds light on the path we still have to travel to achieve full gender equality in law and in practice.
The film will be followed by a discussion and debate with the Director Kita Bauchet.
Language: French & Dutch