CSE 2022

Bigger Than Us

An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution. 

SYNOPSIS

For 6 years, Melati, 18 years old, has been fighting the plastic pollution that ravages her country, Indonesia. Like her, a generation is rising up to repair the world. Everywhere, teenagers and young adults are fighting for human rights, the climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. Alone against all odds, sometimes risking their lives and safety, they protect, denounce and care for others. The Earth. And they change everything.

Theme(s): , Colonialism, Environnement, First nations, Human Rights, Social struggle

DETAILS

Director | , Flore Vasseur
Year | , 2021
Country | , France
Duration | 97 minutes
Original language | , English
Subtitles | , French
Image | Christophe Offenstein, Tess Barthes
Sound | Jean-Luc Audy, Fanny Weinzaepflen
Sound mixing | Fanny Weinzaepflen
Music | Rémi Boubal
Editing | Aurélie Jourdan
Producer | Marion Cotillard

DIRECTOR

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Flore Vasseur

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

Entrepreneur in New York at the age of 24, Flore Vasseur lived through the Internet bubble, September 11 and a capitalist system that was cracking on all sides. Since then, she has been writing books, articles and documentaries to understand the end of one world and the emergence of another. With her four frighteningly lucid novels, she attacks the hold of finance and the madness of a world based on technology. She questions our relationship to power, the elite in panic mode and asks the question: who governs? Alongside this approach of deciphering and sometimes denouncing, she undertakes a long-term work on the trail of rights defenders and whistleblowers. In Moscow, she made "Metting Snowden" about the former NSA contractor. Her latest book, "What Remains of Our Dreams", is an investigative novel about the little-known, real-life story of Aaron Swartz, the child prodigy of code who wanted to be free, persecuted by the Obama administration. A logical continuation of his fifteen years of investigation and writing, "Living Large" is his first documentary film. Basically, his work deals with the question of free will, commitment and courage. The desire to live and to be.

PAST SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1

12 July 2022 at 21h00

Esplanade Louvain

SCREENING 2

19 July 2022 at 21h00

Esplanade Louvain

SCREENING 3

4 August 2022 at 20h30

SCREENING 4

19 August 2022 at 21h00

Parc Beaubien

SCREENING 5

2 September 2022 at 19h30