In the summer of 1942, Antwerp authorities collaborated with the German occupiers to round up and deport more than 10.000 Jews. Only 500 of them would return after the war. This black page in Antwerp's history has long been hushed up, but now a group of sixth-formers from a super-diverse school is bringen this painful past to the fore. They meet relatives of both the Jewish victims and the police officers involved. For these young people, the past may not be their own history, but it is a history that affects them. As in The Interview (about Afghan refugees) and Lost in Transition (about a lost generation of Serbs), Thom Vander Beken once again interweaves past and present to shed critical light on underexposed traumas in a way that sometimes makes it hard to shirk one's responsibility.
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Thom Vander Beken
Jago Moons
Thom Vander Beken
Speeckaert Charlie
Arnaud Bellemans
Marc Goyens
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Dutch
Belgium
2024
