Storyline
Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum clearance and “garden city” rehousing offers guarded hope.
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Henri Storck's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Houses of Poverty is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
