Screening times:
Friday, February 9, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Friday, February 9, 8:30 PM - Half-capacity screening

Bas Devos | Belgium | 2023 | 84m | French, Romanian, Chinese, and Dutch with English subtitles
with Stefan Gota, Liyo Gong, Teodor Corban

Here follows Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is about to return home to visit his mother, and maybe stay...longer. Using the leftovers from his fridge, he cooks up a big pot of soup and begins handing it out as farewell gifts to friends and family. While waiting for his car to be fixed, he meets Shuxiu, a Belgian-Chinese woman preparing a doctorate on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks.

On the heels of Ghost Tropic (2019), Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that’s becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.

One of Carbon Arc Cinema's programmers called the film, "gentle," while another said it's "Meditative without being melancholy, charming without being precious, and formally inventive without showing off."

"A movie of quiet magnificence, one that feels spun of gossamer summer light and rooted in unshakeable depths...[A] profound yet miraculously weightless feature." -Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

"Remarkable...A quietly overwhelming study of human connection and our relationship with the natural world." -Tim Grierson, Screen Daily

"It might be the most benevolent film of this year... a film flush with everyday pleasures... an almost-perfect little film." -Rory O'Connor, The Film Stage

Golden Bear - Best Film in the Encounters section - Berlin International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize - Encounters section - Berlin International Film Festival

Tickets $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available).

Half capacity

Half capacity