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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.

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.

A 25 X 3 min. series, featuring existential questions with entertainment ! Why do we live ? Why should we be good ? Why do we speak ? What’s the use for love ? Why one needs courage ?In this series as in our lifes, children ask questions. Here, in Morocco, Nepal, Bolivia, Belgium, Congo, Cambodia, Senegal, Romania, Uruguay, Argentina... they think over one question together, with their own philosophy. And it is striking with a refreshing world common sense !

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. 

On the beaches of Qeshm Island (southern Iran), Mohammad, Hassan and Ahmad, three traditional moshta (‘trap’) fishermen are striving to preserve their outdated way of fishing, surrounded by plants, harbors, trawlers and ferries, and not giving up. The film opens a window on rural Iran entrapped between traditions and modernity.

In a permaculture schooling farm and within a beehive-like bunch, we meet those who have engaged in a new philosophy of providing food and taste, and initiate in listening to nature and act on the future. Confronting industrial farming with its excesses, permaculture replaces annual crops and seeds with  a perenial  agriculture, nurishing the earth as much as using it.