PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bas Devos and Stefan Gota, director and actor of the film Here.
With Here, his new film screening in the Encounters section at the 73rd Berlinale, Bas Devos reminds us how we are all connected, not only with other human beings but also with the little “non-human” things surrounding us, even with moss hiding everywhere. Once we see it, we can’t unseen it anymore and it changes you as a love story does. That’s what happen to the protagonist, Stefan, in his epiphanies of connections.
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, to hand out as a goodbye gift to friends and family. As he is ready to go, he meets a Belgian-Chinese young woman who works in a little restaurant while preparing a doctorate on mosses. Her attention for the near-invisible stops him in his tracks.
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