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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.

Aged from 20 to 65, our "cleaning ladies" work on call through a voucher system. They used to work undeclared, or in factories, were salespeople, educators, or caregivers ... This choral film draws the outline condition of these brave, luminous women who accepted to share their gesture's choreography and overcoming their hardship and the lack of consideration from their employers.

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 !

Through the tragic fate of a human rights defender in Ukraine, his claim for asylum in France and his alleged death, the director wonders. Between police investigation and psychological thriller, she invites to understand a mysterious man with multiple identities, always ready to disappear to be reborn elsewhere.

A respectful ode to the female orgasm in Rwanda, guided by Vestine, a radio deejay with a mission, Sacred water discovers rwandan sexuality in search of the water that gushes out the female body. It reveals with spontaneity the mystery of female bliss and immerses into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in the most intimate way : female pleasure, while confronting the occidental viewer on intimacy.

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.

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires, leaving up women to deal with realities.

Dour Music Festival is among the largest European music events, gathering of 50 000 people, and miroring contemporary society’s evolution. The team follows the festival's organizers, the programmers in their quest for unique talents, the Police, Red Cross, Firemen and various security services during festival preparation of this major event,  an authentic youth rite of passage to adulthood.

Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa, enters the last portion of his life. Having sacrificed everything for his art, turning trash into beauty, he stubbornly carries on with his work and secure his legacy for future generations, promoting a culture center in the slums, and passing on his skills to his apprentice.

Sabine is an ikon in the Matongé neighborhood in Brussels where she is the manager of a hairdressing salon, although her migrant status is not yet resolved. In this 8m2 salon, Sabine and her colleagues organize and help each other to face their legal situation. They work 13 to 14 hours a day under the threat of patrol police and the tourist’s cameras, picturing them for their exotism…

In a EU countryside refugee center, children come from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq or Syria, they all fled war, persecution or poverty. They have few information on the reasons of their departure but an anguish never leaves them. The director has met them over a year, unveiling their condition and their extraordinary force of adaptation - wether they will be authorized to stay or not – they seize the day.