White Power

Across Europe, far-right movements are refining their image. The shaved heads and black jackets of earlier decades have given way to something more palatable, more polished, and in many ways more difficult to confront. The ideology underneath, however, has not changed.

Directed by Christophe Cotteret, this Belgian documentary follows a rigorous field investigation through France, Germany, and Belgium, tracing the networks and shared convictions of violent white power groups that are quietly embedding themselves into mainstream political life. The 2024 European elections provided stark evidence of how far this process has advanced.

Through sustained reporting and extensive interviews, the film moves beyond surface-level electoral analysis to examine what actually drives these movements: a fundamentally racist worldview that is growing in confidence, coordination, and international reach. The connections between groups across borders are not incidental. They are structural.

What the documentary captures is the gap between appearance and reality, between the respectable veneer these movements now project and the hatred that organises them from within. For broadcasters and platforms covering the state of European democracy, this is a timely and rigorously reported piece of investigative journalism that takes the subject seriously and does not look away.