HERE (2023)

Synopsis

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. But 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.

With a quiet grace that’s becoming a trademark, Bas Devos 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.

“Cynicism has no place in Bas Devos’s Here, a meshwork of small utopias in which the most urgent problem, on the surface of things, is the prospect of some vegetables going to waste.” An interview with director Bas Devos

“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