Our Territory

Year
2019
Country
Belgium
Duration
20’
Director
Mathieu Volpe

When I got to Rignano, the ghetto residents told me: "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display." The misery in the ghetto is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I wanted to show.

CREW:
Director: Mathieu Volpe
Producer: Serge Kestemont, Olivier Burlet
Cinematographer: Mathieu Volpe
Editor: Pauline Piris-Nury
Sound: Jean-Noël Boissé
Production
Luna blue film, Gsara asbl
Sales:
Gsara asbl
Awards
2019 – Festival Signes de Nuit, Best Short Film; Retro Avant Garde Film Festival, Best Retro Short Film
Director
Mathieu Volpe

Mathieu Volpe was born in Rome in 1990 and lived in Bari, in the very south of Italy, until he was nineteen. In 2009 he moved to Brussels to study directing at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. His graduation film, Il segreto del serpente (2014), has been selected by several international festivals such as the Torino Film Festival, Filmer à tout prix, Lussas and Huesca.

Selected Filmography

Il segreto del serpente (2014), Our Territory (2019)

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On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin
DOCU/SHORT
On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Ania Na
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT
Tale of the three flames
DOCU/SHORT
Tale of the three flames
Year
2023
Country
Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland
Director
Juliette Menthonnex
Duration
21’
DOCU/SHORT
Walk
DOCU/SHORT
Walk
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine, Georgia
Director
Daria Zhuravel
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
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Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Director
Karolina Uskakovych
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
Our home
DOCU/SHORT
Our home
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Anna Yutchenko
Duration
18’
DOCU/SHORT
New Facades
DOCU/SHORT
New Facades
Year
2023
Country
USA, Hungary
Director
Kay Hannahan
Duration
9’
DOCU/SHORT
Under the Sign of Anchor
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Under the Sign of Anchor
Year
2024
Country
Ukraine
Director
Taras Spivak
Duration
28’
DOCU/SHORT
Incident
DOCU/SHORT
Incident
Year
2023
Country
USA
Director
Bill Morrison
Duration
30’
DOCU/SHORT
Position
DOCU/SHORT
Position
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Yurii Pupirin
Duration
27’
DOCU/SHORT
The Kiosk
DOCU/SHORT
The Kiosk
Year
2023
Country
Poland
Director
Daniel Stopa
Duration
40’
DOCU/SHORT
Testudo Hermanni
DOCU/SHORT
Testudo Hermanni
Year
2023
Country
Austria, USA
Director
G. Anthony Svatek
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT
Near Light
DOCU/SHORT
Near Light
Year
2023
Country
Italy
Director
Niccolò Salvato
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
The Most Beautiful Corner in the World
DOCU/SHORT
The Most Beautiful Corner in the World
Year
2023
Country
Slovakia
Director
Robo Mihály
Duration
26’
DOCU/SHORT
Kathmandu Monsoon
DOCU/SHORT
Kathmandu Monsoon
Year
2022
Country
Nepal
Director
Ngima Gelu Sherpa
Duration
18’
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