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Documentary WTC A Love Story in competition at Visions Du Réel (CH)

The documentary WTC A Love Story by artists Lietje Bauwens (NL) and Wouter De Raeve (BE) has been selected for the Burning Lights competition of the prestigious festival Visions Du Réel, which will take place in Switzerland from 15 to 25 April.

WTC The Towers

WTC A Love Story

WTC A Love Story zooms in on the controversial redevelopment of the Brussels North district. In the film you see how involved parties prepare actors for a fictitious meeting. While the process of political representation is magnified, it becomes clear how terms like participation and sustainability are used to silence criticism of large urban developments.

The documentary was produced by alternative production platform Video Power and supported by The Arts and Heritage Agency of the Flemish Community, VGC, The ministry of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region responsible for Mobility and Public Works, Netherlands Film Fund, Stimulation Fund Creative Industry, Province of Limburg (NL), Municipality of Maastricht, Mondriaan Fund and the Jan van Eyck Academy.

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WTC De Bouwmeester

The movie

In the 1970s, the lively neighbourhood around Brussels-North Station was destroyed to make room for ‘Little Manhattan’, a modernist dream with the two World Trade Centre towers as its crown jewels. The project failed, leaving the towers and surrounding area largely abandoned. Since late 2017, the owner of the towers has shown a renewed interest in the area.

Closely witnessing the changes from their studio space on the 25th floor of WTC tower 1, Lietje Bauwens and Wouter De Raeve decided to enter the debate by making a film with the actors that claim a voice in the transition: politicians, an activist, the private owner, designers and others. Taking the WTC towers as its object, the film project unravels power relations between the different actors involved in the urban redevelopment, and traces the influx of new progressive, ecological and horizontalist ideas and their impact on the area.

WTC DEBATE

Visions du Réel

Together with IDFA and CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel is counted among the world's most important documentary festivals. These festivals bring together distributors, TV channels, VoD platforms and festivals from all over the world in search of the best documentaries. The Burning Lights International Competition focuses on films that have developed their own vocabulary to relate to the world. There are two prizes to be won, the Grand Prize (CHF 10,000) and the Jury Prize (CHF 5,000).

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