Sida d'ici et de là-bas

Documentary depicting the filmmakers' efforts to find a nomadic Mauritanian family they had filmed six years earlier in order to show them the recorded footage.

Nemadis, the Years Without News

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of existence. For some, my tree was the sign from the spirits, of the invisible or a call from light. For others, it was the symbol of a history, a culture or the end of a period in time. For yet others, it was a tree that you see only when you get lost...

Faraway Roots

Documentary about the war in South Sudan.

Closed District

Le Cercle des noyés is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisoned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata.  This film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions. In a visual echo, the places of their confinement come one after another denuded from any traces of that past.

Drowned in Oblivion

2009 documentary by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, set in Belgium, Senegal, the Ardennes and Western Sahara.

The Dormants

Sahra Ulusal Kurtuluş Hareketi’nin Polisario Cephesi ile Fas’ı ayıran bir duvarın her iki tarafında göç, sürgün, bitmek bilmeyen bekleyiş, tutuklanma, zulüm yaşayan hayatların öykülerinden oluşan bu film, Sahra halkına, topraklarına, tuzak yöntemlerine tanıklık ediyor.

Lost Land

Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.

For the Lost

Short film by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd produced for the 2014 Visions du réel film festival in Switzerland.