Nowadays, there are very few farms where a man, his wife and his family work together. Тhe land is like a woman when she is in love, it wants to be seeded. But how can this passion be kept alive when one or the other goes? And how can you keep the upper hand when money doesn't care? Is the farmer's creed what it used to be? Is God only a fantasy? For one year, I wanted to experience this with four Ardennes farm families.
After studying communicative sciences at IHECS in Brussels, Manu Bonmariage worked as a cameraman for feature films and fictions, and as a image reporter at the RTBF, where he became director. He also teaches reporting at Louvain-la-Neuve. Enthusiast of cinéma-vérité, he is one of the initiator of the TV show Strip Tease. He's directed about fifty documentaries and a feature fiction, Babylon.
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