Les enfants ont des oreilles, Kumail Syed (2025)

37 min.

Frans gesproken met Peul, Spaans en Pools

Met: Alpha Sylla, Bilal Mejdoubi, Lila Van Dorst, Agnieszka Gasiewska

Direction, camera, writing, sound, editing: Kumail Syed

Extra sound: Tom Szpirer

37 min.

Spoken languages: French and occasionally Peul, Spanish and Polish, with English subtitles

For years, Kumail Syed denied his social background. When he realised that his rejection was nothing more than an insult to the social determinism that his parents had embodied, he decided to revisit the neighbourhood of his childhood. In the form of a filmed diary, Children Have Ears bears witness to what the working class can represent today, through tableaux vivants of the Brussels’ neigbourhood Les Marolles, and through the testimonies of Alpha, Bilal, Lila, the director and his mother.