The Institute Anneessens Funck is a Dutch vocational school in the center of Brussels where young people can learn a certain subject. The school not only prepares students for a future job not just through hands-on experience, but also by staging certain work situations and job interviews. In addition to school, their life is filled with football, love affairs and the search for a job and a home. 

 

Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes graduated from the KASK School of Arts in Ghent in 2010 and attracted attention with their graduate work Because We Are Visual (2010) and Rain documentary (2012) which they made on behalf of the dance company Rosas. Grands Travaux is a film about a group of young people in Brussels where a certain stigma remains in place (Anneessens Funck has a bad reputation, despite all the hard work put into it). The filmmakers do not partake in the debate, but rather show these images, so that the young and their environment may speak for themselves.