Molenbeek, Radical Generation?

A movie of CHERGUI KHARROUBI & JOSÉ-LUIS PENAFUERTE

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Synopsis 

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Molenbeek is the second poorest municipality in Belgium with a high population density: 15,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. The unemployment rate for people under 25 is 45%. Filmed the day after the Paris attacks and over several months, this documentary offers us an uncompromising but uncomplicated dive into the reality of this working-class and underprivileged district in the center of the European capital. A district that all the press and all international surveys have quickly designated as the cradle of jihadism in Europe. Attacks by

Paris to those of Brussels, passing through the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, these dramatic twists have focused all eyes on this municipality and raise questions about these questions: has Molenbeek given birth to monsters? Is Molenbeek really the cradle of jihadism in Europe?

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Year of production2016

Duration 65 min

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Co-productionwith the RTBF, UNITÉ DOCUMENTAIRE - ARTE TZIMZOOM

With the support of Fund for journalism in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Yves Rocher Foundation – Institut de France and the support of Tax shelter.BE and ING, and the tax shelter of the federal government of Belgium

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image ALAIN FISCH - SERGE HANNECART - PHILIPPE JADOT - FRANÇOIS SCHMITT

his COSMAS ANTONIADIS - MARC ENGELS - HUGO FERNANDEZ - GILLES LACROIX 

assembly SABINE HUBEAU

musicCHRISTOPHE VERVOORT 

calibrationSTEPHAN HIGELIN

narrationJOSÉ-LUIS PEÑAFUERTE

mixingBRUYNS STONE - NIGHT BLUE