→ Saturday 21/09/2024 (from 6pm) at the Nova cinema (rue d’Arenberg 3, 1000 Brussels)
On 22 September 1998, Semira Adamu was murdered by gendarmes escorting her sixth deportation attempt after being held for several months at the 127bis detention centre. Twenty-six years on, deportations, closed centres and the failure to regularise undocumented migrants continue to shatter lives and embody racist migration policies. This evening is organised by Cinema Nova and Getting the Voice Out, a collective supporting the struggles of people detained in closed centres.
→ All the actions in commemoration of Semira Adamu at: https://stuut.info/Semaines-de-mobilisation_Semira-Adamu-Stop-a-l-enfermement-des-personnes-sans-4430
🎙️ 6pm – Lance-Pierre #5: Detain, expel
→ Free
Public recording of the 5th episode of the “Lance-Pierre” podcast by Getting the Voice Out, a collective supporting the struggles of people detained in closed centres. Border deportations and resistance will be deciphered live with several guests.
🍽️ 7pm – Table d’hôte by the 100DAL collective
→ Free price
The 100DAL canteen (cantine100dal.net) is a self-managed cooking collective in Brussels. It brings together around fifteen members to carry out a range of culinary and activist activities. It was set up because there were few, if any, militant, self-managed cooking groups left in Brussels. The 100dal canteen’s activities are always free or at no cost, based on food recovery and voluntary work. The way the collective is organised is as self-managed and horizontal as possible.
🎬 8pm – Screening of short films
→ Screenings followed by meetings with the directors!
→ Prices (in cash): €10 (support rate) / €7 (full rate) / €4 (reduced rate for students, pensioners, unemployed, non-status)
Caught in the Rain
(Elie Maissin & Mierien Coppens, 2021, BE, DCP, vo ff st ang, 21′)
Three men are working on a building site. The work has been interrupted by five months’ imprisonment. The rain suddenly falls like the silence that precedes an expulsion.
From Afar
(Martijn de Meuleneire & Gilles Vandaele, 2024, BE, DCP, vo fr & ang st fr, 33′)
In “From Afar”, observations of the landscapes and architecture in and around Belgium’s six deportation centres are combined with testimonies from imprisoned people.
For the use of the living
(Pauline Fonsny, 2019, BE, DCP, vo fr & ang st fr, 27′)
Twenty years after the death of Semira Adamu, in a war cry conjugated in the feminine, three women tell the st
For the use of the living
(Pauline Fonsny, 2019, BE, DCP, vo fr & ang st fr, 27′)
Twenty years after the death of Semira Adamu, in a war cry conjugated in the feminine, three women recount and shed light on the reality of closed centres for the detention of migrants.
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