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4 years ago, the directors were about to fly to California from Zaventem for a shooting when suddenly their world collapsed: the Zaventem airport was the target of suicide bombers. Filming the testimonies of others on their coping with the trauma and the handicap, they overcome their own fears.
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Can one imagine intimacy with a person responsible for millions of deaths, of Nazism, the worst criminal plot in history: Rudolph Hess, alleged original author of Mein Kampf – the Director’s Grandfather did. Hess' protestant pastor during his last ten years of imprisonment in Spandau, he was his only confident. How to deal with those which Hanna Arendt prevented from being considered as monsters: getting to Hess' humanity was Charles' mission.
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Set in the gray period before the Nuremberg trial, Ashcan unveils the story of the secret prison where US Army authority detained main Nazi leaders, in Luxembourg: Goering, Doenitz, Keitel, Rosenberg, Ley, Frank, Streicher, Seyss-Inquart, Lutz von Krosigk, von Papen ... The allies needed to figure out the Nazi regime functionning.
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From the uzbek farm worker in the cotton fields to the Indian dyer, through an activist for workers' rights in Indonesia to the belgian store where the director grew up, panties come to life. Its manufacturing process symbolizes the raw mechanisms of globalization. What value is given to the clothes and especially to the lives of those who make them?
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In DR Congo, one of the most violent regions in the world, "La Lucha", a handful of young people are peacefully fighting for democracy. They organized a struggle for the departure of President Kabila. As and when they succeed, they realize that the fight has a heavy price. Following for two years their confrontation with repression, the film witnesses a current citizen movement embracing the african continent.