Ateliers urbains : Stalingrad, avec ou sans nous ?

In 2021, five residents of the Stalingrad district in Brussels film the tremors caused by the digging of a new metro line, a huge and much-criticized project. The huge construction site is suffocating a warm and welcoming shopping boulevard, which has become an open-air construction site. Are we witnessing the disappearance of a flagship neighborhood, which has been the gateway to the city for more than 40 years? What will become of this welcoming stop on the edge of an increasingly standardized and impersonal center? What kind of city are we in the process of designing? Driven by a need to explore and understand, five Brussels residents with no previous experience of filmmaking embarked on the adventure of making a participatory film. While their attraction to the subject may differ, they share a proximity to the Stalingrad district, where they live (all of them) and where they were born (Anas and Samira) and grew up (Chérine). The five of them examine the future of Stalingrad in the light of the work on the new metro, through the prism of their own experiences and feelings.