Jean-Noël Gobron

Through interviews with amateur and experienced actors, this documentary delves into the acting profession and the fascination it holds for people across backgrounds and generations. What mysterious alchemy fuels the passion for bringing someone else’s imagination to life?

One of the most intimate and obstinate filmmakers in Belgium, Boris Lehman acts, directs, produces, and distributes his films, single-handedly incarnating the essence of a creator who manages to survive on the fringes of his industry. From Brussels to Paris, friends, filmmakers and critics offer their understanding of a man for whom life is a reason to film, and film, a reason to live.

The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...

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Leaving Europe to look for Akiko, Jean-Noël discovers her city, the exotic Tokyo. A documentary on everyday life in Tokyo, its KABUKI theater, its nostalgic TAKENOKOZOKU dances, its thousands of suit-and-tie executives, its geishas, its Western style marriages, its tranquil green areas, its pulsating nightlife...

The father through the eye of the son, the painter through the eye of the filmmaker. Started at random 10 years ago, the picture rewrites in a very subjective way the life of Roger Gobron - born in 1899 in Brussels - who, through his pictorial research, succeeded in giving watercolors a new dimension. "In Belgium, artists are evaluated according to the price of their paintings", A tribute to this simple and generous man who searched and painted watercolors his whole life.

Through interviews with amateur and experienced actors, this documentary delves into the acting profession and the fascination it holds for people across backgrounds and generations. What mysterious alchemy fuels the passion for bringing someone else’s imagination to life?

Through interviews with amateur and experienced actors, this documentary delves into the acting profession and the fascination it holds for people across backgrounds and generations. What mysterious alchemy fuels the passion for bringing someone else’s imagination to life?

The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...

The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...

The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...

No synopsis available yet.

Leaving Europe to look for Akiko, Jean-Noël discovers her city, the exotic Tokyo. A documentary on everyday life in Tokyo, its KABUKI theater, its nostalgic TAKENOKOZOKU dances, its thousands of suit-and-tie executives, its geishas, its Western style marriages, its tranquil green areas, its pulsating nightlife...

Leaving Europe to look for Akiko, Jean-Noël discovers her city, the exotic Tokyo. A documentary on everyday life in Tokyo, its KABUKI theater, its nostalgic TAKENOKOZOKU dances, its thousands of suit-and-tie executives, its geishas, its Western style marriages, its tranquil green areas, its pulsating nightlife...

The father through the eye of the son, the painter through the eye of the filmmaker. Started at random 10 years ago, the picture rewrites in a very subjective way the life of Roger Gobron - born in 1899 in Brussels - who, through his pictorial research, succeeded in giving watercolors a new dimension. "In Belgium, artists are evaluated according to the price of their paintings", A tribute to this simple and generous man who searched and painted watercolors his whole life.

The story of a man who confuses fiction and reality ... "Orwold" is the tragic history of an insignificant employee; an erratic figure who can't cope with the perspectiveless of his existence and therefore escapes in an imaginary world which eventually shall devour him.

The story of a man who confuses fiction and reality ... "Orwold" is the tragic history of an insignificant employee; an erratic figure who can't cope with the perspectiveless of his existence and therefore escapes in an imaginary world which eventually shall devour him.

Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the filmmaker continues the description of the artistic universe of his parents. Born in 1916 in Flanders near the French border, Marie-Jo writes mostly in French. Aged 85, she starts an autobiographical novel about her youth, its many events, and about her daring emancipation in art and love, which she confides here.