Proxima Competition / Paris Paris / Belgium 2026
An allegory of searching, loss, displacement, and the discovery of new meanings and commonalities. Three men – Yi-En from China, Junior from Congo, and Hamzah from Palestine – share a spartan apartment in a seemingly abandoned building in Paris. Besides this joint living arrangement, the group is bound together by their shared experience of life in exile and the fleeting nature of their possessions, relationships, and sense of home. Director Isabelle Tollenaere’s fiction film debut is set in one of Europe’s great cities and in a replica of Paris built in China – a metaphor for the immigrants’ old dream of life in a new home and its gradual transformation into a new dream about their old home.
Petra Vočadlová
79 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Isabelle Tollenaere
/ Screenplay Isabelle Tollenaere
/ Dir. of Photography Thomas Verijke
/ Sound Kwinten Van Laethem
/ Editor Isabelle Tollenaere
/ Producer Bo de Group, Hans Everaert
/ Production Menuetto
/ Sales Square Eyes
/ Contact Brigitta Portier
Isabelle Tollenaere. Filmography: Viva Paradis (2011, short doc.), Battles (2015, doc.), The Remembered Film (2018, short doc.), Victoria (2020, doc.), The Fruit Tee (2022, short doc), Paris Paris (2026).
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Brigitta Portier
E-mail: [email protected]
Isabelle Tollenaere
Film Director
Yi-En Chen
Actor
Mahmoud Bichtawi
Actor
Hans Everaert
Producer
Thomas Verijke
Director of Photography
Brigitta Portier
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