Here

Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, is on the verge of moving back home. He cooks up a big pot of soup with leftovers in his fridge as a goodbye gift for friends and family. As he is about to leave, he meets a young Belgian-Chinese woman who is working in a little restaurant while researching her doctorate on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks.
A hunter-gatherer of beauty in urban landscapes, Bas Devos knows how to tell stories through images. Berlinale audiences beheld this talent in his films Violet (Generation, 2014) and Hellhole (Panorama, 2019). In Here, the Belgian filmmaker’s ability to register the invisible and the untold performs many a small miracle. Unfolding in beautiful tableaux in 4:3 format, his work features characters in whose presence we want to feel the here and now, just as they do. Observing his central duo, played by the radiant Stefan Gota and Liyo Gong, as they discover each other, Devos’ gaze is as moving as it is delicate. And what more solid way for a bond to grow between two people than with their feet firmly rooted in Mother Nature’s soft carpeting? It is more fragile than cement, but it is our true terrain.
by Bas Devos
with Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong
Belgium 2023 French,  Mandarin,  Romanian,  Subtitles: English 82’ Colour World premiere

With

  • Stefan Gota (Stefan)
  • Liyo Gong (Shuxiu)

Crew

DirectorBas Devos
ScreenplayBas Devos
CinematographyGrimm Vandekerckhove
EditingDieter Diependaele
MusicBrecht Ameel
Sound DesignBoris Debackere
SoundYanna Soentjens
Production DesignSpela Tusar
CostumesManon Blom
Assistant DirectorSofie Tusschans
Production ManagerRosalin Brinks
ProducerMarc Goyens
Executive ProducerMarc Goyens

Produced by

Quetzalcoatl

Oudsbergen, Belgium

Bas Devos

Born in Zoersel, Belgium in 1983. His debut feature film Violet won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury at the 2014 Berlinale and was selected for the New Directors/New Films festival in New York. Hellhole was presented in the 2019 Panorama while Ghost Tropic premiered at Cannes in the same year. He currently teaches film at the Luca School of Arts in Brussels.

Filmography

2005 Taurus; short film 2006 Pillar; short film 2008 The Close; short film 2009 We Know; short film 2013 Violet 2019 Hellhole · Ghost Tropic 2023 Here

Dates

Sun Feb 19 16:30

Akademie der Künste

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Sun Feb 26 16:00

Akademie der Künste

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