Directed by Zaïde Bil, Sam Peeters, Heleen Declercq • Documentary • 2023 • 45 minutes
As a space scientist at ESA (European Space Agency), Angelique Van Ombergen strives for more research on the female body in space. Being in a two-mother-family, she has to choose between concentrating on that ambition or on a fertility process?
Musician Charlotte Adigéry couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to have her baby. Desperately looking for other examples in the music industry, she embarks on her first international tour, with her baby. How to follow your ambition and enjoy motherhood at the same time? And who takes charge of the unpaid care work?
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The Children of Camp Ashraf
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Writing Hawa
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