Two drifting souls, a construction worker and an expert on mosses and lichens, and the world that surrounds them – a moment lingering on nature, a moment spent in night-time Brussels. Winner of Berlin’s Encounters Award for Best Film, Here captures its heroes both in a state of uncertainty and in close contact with the commonplace. Devos, like Tsai Ming-liang, oscillates between a dispassionate, realistic approach with social emphasis and an illusory dreamworld, while also thematising something as elusive as the perception of passing time. A magical and serene piece shrouded in inner mystery; as homely and fragile as a treasured old coffee mug.
Viktor Palák
82 min / Color, DCP
Director Bas Devos
/ Screenplay Bas Devos
/ Dir. of Photography Grimm Vandekerckhove
/ Music Brecht Ameel
/ Sound Boris Debackere
/ Editor Dieter Diependaele
/ Art Director Špela Tušar
/ Producer Marc Goyens
/ Production Quetzalcoatl
/ Cast Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong
/ Sales Rediance
Bas Devos (1983). Filmography: Taurus (2005, short), Pillar (2006, short), Violet (2013), Hellhole (2019), Here (2023).
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