That’s all we get

Genre: Drama

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Duration: TBC

Country: Belgique

Year: 2025

SYNOPSIS

In Gilly, a suburb of Charleroi, Adil dreams of becoming a lawyer. Encouraged by his teacher Julie, he aims to go to university, but problems with the police and dropping out of school complicate his path. Will he be able to escape the fate mapped out for him by a discriminatory society? Will Julie have the strength to fight against the unequal system?

CREDITS

Director: Pauline Beugnies

Script: Pauline Beugnies

DIRECTOR

Pauline Beugnies (1982) is an author, photographer, and filmmaker from Charleroi, Belgium. She lived in Cairo for five years, where she learned Arabic. Now based in Brussels, she maintains a strong connection with Egypt. For a decade, she documented the emancipation of Egyptian youth through various mediums: photo exhibitions, a web documentary Sout El Shabab (The Voice of the Youth) for France Culture in 2012, the photo book Génération Tahrir in 2016, and her first feature-length documentary, Rester Vivants. The film premiered internationally at the Dok Leipzig Festival in 2017, received the SCAM 2017 Audiovisual Documentary Award, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Magritte Awards in 2018. Her photography has also been widely recognised; notably, in 2013, she won the Nikon Press Photo Award for her series Battir, l’intifada Verte.

In 2020, Pauline debuted her first fiction work, Shams, a short film shot in Cairo. The film was awarded prizes at the Brussels Short Film Festival, Mix Milano, Thessaloniki’s International Short Film Festival, and Cambria in California. In 2021, her second documentary, SHIFT, was released, telling the story of a former platform economy courier. More recently, Pauline contributed to the creation of a theatrical work titled Mawda, ça veut dire tendresse, based on the story of Mawda, a two-year-old Kurdish girl killed by a Belgian police officer. In 2022, her latest feature-length documentary, Petites, which revisits the trauma of the Dutroux case for the children of that era, had its world premiere in international competition at Hot Docs. Pauline is currently working on the script for her first fiction feature film, C’est tout ce qu’on aura.