Héritage

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In Héritage, Cédric Eeckhout summons Jo Libertiaux, his mother, born in 1945. Free and independent, Jo built herself alone in a world dominated by men. In her, Cédric sees a fighter. Driven by a deep love of life, Jo tells her story, while her son reinvents and stages it, traversing themes such as female emancipation and economic, social and political history.

Their voices intertwine: that of a divorced woman, mother of four children, who balanced work as a hairdresser with raising her family and who, now retired, became an actress; and that of her son, an actor who identifies as queer and questions inheritance, masculinity and machismo.

Between intimacy, emotion and humour, mother and son explore the transmission between generations in a time marked by successive crises — climate, pandemic, political and social — but also by persistent forms of racism and sexism. Yet it is in the fissures of a world shaped by colonial and patriarchal traditions that new possibilities emerge. Among fragile, marginal or little-heard voices, hope for a different future arises.

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