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Cinema Guild Takes North America For Berlinale Encounters Winner ‘Here’; Rediance Unveils Asian Deals

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EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights for Belgian director Bas Devos’s film Here which won best film in the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters section last month as well as the Fipresci prize.

The film revolves around a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is making preparations ahead of his return home to visit his mother for the holidays, not knowing if he will come back to the city.

While waiting for his car to be fixed, he meets a Belgian-Chinese woman bryologist, or expert in the study of moss and lichen, who is preparing her doctorate while working in her aunt’s restaurant.

Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks. Like Devos’s previous 2019 film Ghost Tropic, Brussels is inherent to the storyline as the director explores ideas of longing in contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds. “During the pandemic, we missed out on the opportunity to share Ghost Tropic with audiences in theaters,” said Cinema Guild Head of Theatrical Tom Sveen. “So we’re delighted that Bas Devos brings the same warmth and humanity to Here while adding a dash of romance.

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