Ben De Raes

Kapital Europe portrays two migrant workers in Brussels, as they navigate a journey marked by uncertainty and singular moments of joy. Reginald, a Romanian construction worker, struggles in the city’s informal building sector and contemplates returning to Romania. Niki, a young Greek newly arrived to the city, takes up work as a bicycle courier. Their stories reveal the unyielding forces of the capitalist system at work.

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Three stories about gold, from a working mine in the Philippines, a proposed mine in a Greek forest, and a laboratory in Belgium. Together, they form a meditation on the possible meanings of value.

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The heartbreaking story of a living placenta that is raised as a human, a christian, a soldier.

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Kapital Europe portrays two migrant workers in Brussels, as they navigate a journey marked by uncertainty and singular moments of joy. Reginald, a Romanian construction worker, struggles in the city’s informal building sector and contemplates returning to Romania. Niki, a young Greek newly arrived to the city, takes up work as a bicycle courier. Their stories reveal the unyielding forces of the capitalist system at work.

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Three stories about gold, from a working mine in the Philippines, a proposed mine in a Greek forest, and a laboratory in Belgium. Together, they form a meditation on the possible meanings of value.

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