Stand with Courage – Screening, Panel, and Workshop to Rediscover Values Worth Standing For

Stand with Courage is a documentary-driven event designed to inspire reflection on the values we hold dear. The 90-minute program begins with a film screening , followed by a panel discussion and small-group workshops that invite you to rediscover values worth standing for by exploring the life stories of your grandparents.

What does it mean to stand up – not just in the past, but now? The Courage to Listen is the first part of four in the documentary Stand with Courage, filmed in Brussels, Bruges, and Paris. It opens with a myth: a triumphant German propaganda reel hailing the 1,000-year Reich. But beneath its spectacle lies the machinery of dehumanization that millions, like Belgian resistance fighter Bernard Declève, stood up against. In 1942, Bernard voluntarily walked into Gestapo headquarters in Brussels to protect his family, beginning a three-year descent into torture, Nazi prisons, and concentration camps.

In 2025, his granddaughter, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, retraces his path, inviting us into a reckoning with the tools of tyranny – division, dehumanization, distraction – that are creeping back today. Through testimony, archival material, and lived emotion, the film becomes a deeply European meditation on courage, memory, and the moral choice to act.

The Courage to Listen is not about glorifying the past; it’s about hearing what the past still has to say. What begins as a personal journey becomes a mirror held up to our time.

Stand with Courage is a documentary by Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Carl Eneroth that invites viewers to reflect on the courage Europe needs today. Through stories of history, memory, and collective action, the film explores how we can shape a shared future across generations and borders, inspiring dialogue about the values that unite us.

Panel participants – TBD
Workshop format – TBD

Sandrine Dixson-Declève – Executive Chair, Earth4All (https://earth4all.life/)
Carl Eneroth – Filmmaker, Stories That Unite Us (https://www.ssilab.se/)

What do you think is worth standing up for?

This format is part of the broader European Democracy & Digital Future Tour, where conversations can continue online via the newly launched European social platform W Social to create a movement across cities and generations (www.wsocial.eu).

The documentary has been screened in Brussels (twice), Amsterdam, Paris, Stockholm, Lund (twice) and Namur (Belgium) for more than 1000 people. Online Première from We Don’t Have Time’s studio at COP30, Brazil in November, 2025.

Curious to hear your story!