For Europe Day on May 9th and as part of the European Year of Youth, we will have the pleasure and the honour to have a shared event with @lumièremaastricht! We will host the Dutch première of the documentary “Notes from Brussels”! Celebrate with us Europe Day by getting a look on the life of three women who worked in the Brussels bubble (you can find more information about the movie below this post, on Lumière’s website, and on the documentary’s own website notesfrombrussels.eu). Starting from 19.30, we will dive into their working lives in Brussels and then have a panel discussion with the movie director, Nadine van Loon, and one of the protagonists of the movie, Anne-Cecile Gault, to discuss ideas, comments, and feedback on the movie. Afterwards, don’t miss out the opportunity to get a drink at Lumière! We will go there and spend a relaxed evening together.
To attend the event, do not forget to buy a ticket (student price 5EUR) on Lumière’s website (https://lumiere.nl/en/events/notes-from-brussels) and show up 15 minutes before!
NOTES FROM BRUSSELS follows three women working behind the scenes of European politics: a young French political assistant in the European Parliament, a Polish trade journalist and a German top EU official. Just like the film’s director and narrator the women moved to Brussels at the onset of their careers longing to contribute to Europe.
Filmed between 2017 and 2021 we experience how time in the Brussels bubble impacts the women’s lives. As they internalize a European mindset and adapt to the intense work-rhythm we wonder: to what extent can the women heed their inner voice calling them to slow down and to not estrange from their roots? Along the way, the director realizes how she herself has become an outsider to this world she once belonged to. She recognizes elements in the women’s struggles that in her case triggered her to go over the edge in sleepless nights.
The women’s stories are set against the background of rising Euroscepticism in France; Poland drifting away from the European ideals and the lingering EU migration crisis. As a result, the documentary also reminds us how our European values are threatened by the rise of authoritarianism and how fragile European cooperation sometimes is.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/558689835880808/?ref=newsfeed