America in the mid eighties. The Reagan era. Conservative, right and loud. Politics is hard and cold like never before. AIDS is a new disease that primarily hits the gay community unexpectedly fast and relentlessly hard in New York. This is where the story of Angels in America by Tony Kushner begins.

When the craggy patriarch of a struggling North Sea fishing company falls overboard of his vessel, his eldest son has to take over the family business, igniting dark tensions between three brothers. Stern and serious Jean is a single father to an 8-year-old and sees a dying fisheries business as having no possible future. Younger sibling Francis must hide his secret love affair and desperately wants to escape to seek happiness. Only black sheep William, returning home to an indifferent welcome, wants to carry on the family trade.

Bob Rugurika is the director of Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), the most popular independent radio station in Burundi. As an investigative journalist he is also a forerunner of the fight for freedom of expression in his country, willing to risk his life to expose the truth. With the RPA, he keeps on challenging the regime and becomes its enemy number one. Will Bob succeed in keeping the freedom of press, while independent media are being silenced and his life and family are being threatened?

The highly idiosyncratic adaptation by FC Bergman and co of the epic animal poem Van de vos Reynaerde was received as “insanely strong theater”. Liesa Van der Aa and the Berlin genre-crossing Soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop composed the music for this music theater performance. Josse De Pauw provides words. Dirk Roofthooft, Viviane De Muynck and Gregory Frateur are playing, surrounded by a number of volunteers.

One night in Ostend, Belgium. On his way to the place he never left, Wesley lets the city be his guide — until he meets a mime with a strange haircut.

When an 80-year old father is declared terminally ill, he asks his son to make a journey together. He wants to see the Mont Blanc for the last time. Soon it becomes clear that the relationship between father and son isn’t ideal. They don’t understand each other. But with the end of his life in sight, the differences get even more obvious.

2011. Steven and Abdel, two Flemish people in their twenties, travel to troubled Syria. One as an inexperienced photojournalist, the other as a fighter against Assad. Yet the two have more in common than you might think.