Thu 26.09.
20:00
Director
Bas Devos
Belgium / 2023
82 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version with English subtitles
with
Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong
Original language
French
Cinema
Arsenal 1
zu den Ticketszu dem KalenderFollowed by a discussion with Bas Devos (in English language)
"Here" is Brussels, a city with many major building sites. But where is home? The builder Stefan (Stefan Gota), a migrant worker from Romania, is about to leave for a vacation home with his mother. To empty his fridge, he cooks a large pot of soup, which he delivers in portions to his friends - a night porter at the hotel and Romanian mechanics - and his sister, who works in a hospital. As his car is in the garage, he walks long distances in the outskirts of the city, passing glass facades, cranes, train tracks and forests. Twice he accidentally meets Shuxiu (Liyo Gong), a moss scientist who teaches at the university and helps out in her aunt's restaurant. He is fascinated by her interest in something almost invisible. In the radiant light of summer and with many shades of darkness, the film uses beautiful 4:3 tableaux to depict nature and urbanity, greenery and concrete, cells magnified by a microscope, faces and the city. It is worth paying attention to the things that often go unnoticed. (bik)