In Compassion : The History of the machine gun, Rau and his team journey to the political hotspots of our time : the Mediterranean routes of refugees from the Middle East and the Congolese civil war zones. The semi-documentary double-monologue, based on interviews with NGO workers, clerics and war victims in Africa and Europe, deliberately ventures into contradictory terrain: how do we endure the misery of others and why do we watch it ? Why does one dead person at the gates of Europe outweigh a thousand dead in the Congolese civil war ? Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun not only contemplates the limits of our compassion but also the limits of European humanism. (source : NTGent)

Directed by : Milo Rau