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Better never than late
\"Charts the unconventional lives and love affairs of a group of Nigerian migrants, making their way in Belgium. The collection is centred around Prosperous and her husband Agu, and the various visitors who gather at their apartment each week. These interconnected stories explore their struggles and triumphs, from unhappy marriages (of convenience or otherwise), to the pain of homesickness, and the tragic paradox in longing to leave Nigeria so that you may one day return to it.\"--Provided by publisher.
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That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom
This tale follows fictitious characters as they journey in search of wisdom and the fulfillment of their objectives. Set mainly in the fascinating university town of Leuven, Belgium, it revolves around the personal, social, political and academic aspirations of visiting scholars in the town. Richard Gutierrez from the USA needs to get tenure at his university. Jennifer Sydney from England is determined to advance her career. Aisling O'Shea and her six-year old son Philip from Ireland have different expectations of their trip. Piotr Malachowski wants to understand a life rooted in the bitter experiences of the internment camp of Majdanek in Poland. The nationalistic Fr Miguel Fuentes from the Philippines wonders what he can learn from a Western university to deal with the challenges in his country. What starts out as an academic sojourn for these individuals becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross in Leuven and they learn about each other and themselves and about life itself.
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Nowhere boy
\"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Flemish Non-Fiction Film Heritage Mapped Out. A Collaboration on Registering, Depositing and Digitising the Fragmented Flemish Non-Fiction Film Heritage
For film, these included, for example, fragmentation in the management of film heritage, unfavourable preservation conditions, insufficient attention being paid specifically to film collections, and a lack of infrastructure and substantive and technical knowledge. Poor packaging materials contributed significantly to the rapid deterioration of the elements held: films were often stored in rusty film cans, sometimes difficult to open. 1.2.Limited knowledge and expertise in film preservation Although some of the cultural heritage organisations surveyed had already deposited film material with the Cinematheque, the film heritage was very scattered. No opportunities to watch the films and hardly information about the content of the collections Because of the lack of proper equipment and viewing tables, few organisations could play all the picture formats to be found in their collections. Since there were such limited playback options, information about the content of the films was also very limited. Content partners can use the metadata and the advice as a guide in their assessment of whether a particular film is worth digitising, but they are, of course, free to overrule the Cinematheque's advice if, for example, the film is significant within their own collection. 2.4.Preventive preservation actions Each film is recorded by the Cinematheque, viewed on a viewing table, and rewound; the process quickly reveals the main preservation issues.
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33 Place Brugmann
At home on 33 Place Brugmann, in the heart of Brussels, her father and her closest friends and neighbours - the Raphaëls from the fourth floor, and Masha from the fifth - have ensured her secret is safe. But when the Nazis invade Belgium, and Masha and the Raphaëls disappear, Charlotte must navigate her new world alone. Over the border and across the sea, in occupied Paris and battered Blitz London, Masha and the Raphaëls are reinventing themselves - as refugees, nurses, soldiers, heroes. Though scattered far and wide, they dream of only one place, one home: 33 Place Brugmann. But back at Place Brugmann, Charlotte feels impending danger closing in. Who can she trust in this world - where everyone is watching, and everyone is harbouring their own secrets? As the months pass, and the shadow of war darkens, Charlotte and her neighbours must face what - and who - truly matters to them most.
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Sacrificed
Congo's diamond mines. Belgium's art galleries. South Africa's racist past. Caz's family tree ushers deadly consequences into the present.
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Meesterschap in tweevoud
In hun tijd kon het werk van de Vlaamse schrijfsters Rosalie (1834-1875) en Virginie (1836-1923) Loveling al rekenen op de grote waardering van critici als E.J. Potgieter en J. ten Brink. Maar pas nu wordt duidelijk hoe vooruitstrevend de opvattingen van deze zusters waren. Zij schreven niet alleen aangrijpende verhalen waarin zij de eigentijdse werkelijkheid ‘realistisch’, sober en beheerst weergaven, maar namen ook nadrukkelijk geavanceerde standpunten in over intellectuele, filosofische en maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Als vrouw eisten zij het recht op om te studeren en te schrijven.
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The ventriloquists
\"Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretend ing to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin--daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.\"-- From publisher's description.
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Lighting Out a Collective Past: to Find, Preserve and Research Flemish Non-fiction Films
The Belgian Royal Film Archive (RFA) is mainly known for its large collection of international features. One year ago a collective research project was launched by the RFA and the University of Ghent in order to describe and catalogue the Flemish part of the non-fiction film collection in the Archive. The central aim of this project, named Throwing light onto a collective heritage, is to create the necessary conditions for research with non-fiction material in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The overall project has three main purposes or sections: an inventory of the RFA's non-fiction material on Flemish history and society; the development and editing of a guide on other collections containing non-fiction material; and finally concrete historical research on interesting film material. The research team hopes that mapping, restoring, safeguarding and opening up film collections, will finally facilitate historical film research in Flanders and Belgium.
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