BE, 2018, 85′, OV FR / ST NL-EN
Shower Power (Sous la douche, le ciel), by Effi (Weiss) en Amir (Borenstein), follows the Brussels non-profit organisation DoucheFLUX, during five years (2012-2017) in their efforts to set up a building dedicated to public showers and other hygiene services, desperately needed in Brussels, especially by the big homeless and precarious populations. This building, will be located just off Brussels’ main train station, it is meant to be beautiful, well designed, functional and comfortable, a place from where one goes out head and spirit lifted.
This initiative encounters difficulties and obstacles on many levels. Not only because its members are non-professionals, precarious and non-precarious alike. But, first and foremost because of the manifold controversial nature of their proposal: it claims the visibility of poverty – in total opposition to common European city policy –, it claims the primordiality of luxury – self-image, self-esteem and human dignity being as important as survival –, and it interferes with the State’s traditional social responsibility.
The film is a chronicle of a struggle. It follows a long and tortuous road from an idea to its concretisation. It raises the question of the political force of imagining a different reality and the possibility to act as a simple citizen, despite the very limited space capitalism, bureaucracy and political power have left us.
Screenings
Het Bos, Antwerp
- 17.08.2018 – 20.30
Visite Film Festival #5
The directors will be present
Cinema Aventure, Brussels
- 11.07.2018 – 18.40
- 13.07.2018 – 18.40
- 15.07.2018 – 18.40
- 17.07.2018 – 18.40
- 26.07.2018 – 17.30
- 28.07.2018 – 17.30
- 30.07.2018 – 17.30
Cinema Nova, Brussels
- 01.06.2018 – 20.00
Followed by a debate De l’action à la professionnalisation with members of DoucheFLUX and Chez Nous/Bij ons - 09.06.2018 – 20.00
Followed by a debate De l’« utilité publique » aux « commons » with Dominique Nalpas and Sophie Ghyselen of CommonsJosaphat - 17.06.2018 – 17.00
Followed by a debate La subvention, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire with Xavier Doyen, actor and artistic coordinator at Magic Land Théâtre and its director Patrick Chaboud (t.b.c.).
The directors will be present at every screening.
More info
Cinema Palace, Brussels
- 21.03.2018 – 19.00
Première nationale at the Millenium Film Festival
Beursschouwburg, Brussels
- 07.02.2018 – 20.00
Avant-première
Trailer
Press
- 3 questions à Effi et Amir (réalisateurs de « Sous la douche, le ciel ») – pointculture.be – 06.02.2018
- « Sous la douche, le ciel », un documentaire éblouissant et sensible de Effi & Amir – LIVRaisons – 08.02.2018
- Algehele onthouding – BRUZZ – 28.03.2018
- Sous la douche le ciel : entretien avec Effi et Amir – cinergie.be – 28.05.2018
Download the press kit.