Here

Synopsis

Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, is about to return home. He cooks up a large pot of soup with leftovers from his fridge to share as a farewell gift for friends and family. Just as he is ready to leave, he meets a young Chinese-Belgian woman who is working on a doctoral thesis about mosses. Her focus on the near invisible stops him in his tracks.

A minimalist and contemplative portrait, an ode to nature and human connection in an urban setting, an attempt to capture the invisible through the chance encounter of two people adrift in life.

Biography and Films

Bas Devos (Zoersel, Belgium, 1983) studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. He has made several short films, including Taurus (2005), Pillar (2006), The Close (2009) and We Know (2013). He made his feature debut in 2014 with Violet, which won the Grand Prix of the International Jury Generation 14plus at the Berlinale and was selected for the New Directors/New Films festival in New York. In 2019 his film Hellhole was screened in the Panorama section at the Berlinale and Ghost Tropic premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. With Here, his fourth feature, he returned to the Berlinale, this time in the Encounters section, where it won Best Film and the FIPRESCI Prize.