Stand with Courage
What does it mean to stand up - not just in the past, but now? A theme we explore in the documentary Stand with Courage, filmed in Brussels, Bruges, and Paris, and now coming to Gothenburg and Frihamnsdagarna on August 29th, 13.00-14.30.
Part 1 - The Courage to Listen - 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. 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 values that unite us.
Panel participants - Katja Blagodyr, Lucy Larsson, Hans Åkersten and online: Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Moderator: Carl Eneroth
Workshop format: Small groups.
What do you think is worth standing up for?
Stand with Courage - Trailer (part 1)
Screenings in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Tanzania and Sweden has reached more than 1000 people. Online Première from the We Don't Have Time studio at COP30, Brazil in November 2025.
Sandrine Dixson-Declève - Executive Chair, Earth4All
Carl Eneroth - Filmmaker, Stories That Unite Us
A warm-up event to this event is “Mellan Rummen”(Between Spaces) at 10.30-11.30. We walk the talk through beautiful Gothenburg, from Götaplatsen to Frihamnsdagarna, and discuss in small groups: How can I as an individual influence the system? What do you long for?
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"Mellan Rummen" went live at Almedalen earlier this year.
Read more - View the trailer - and film (12 min)
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