HELLHOLE

A film by Bas Devos

HELLHOLE

A film by Bas Devos

With

Alba ROHRWACHER, Willy THOMAS, Hamza BELARBI, Lubna AZABAL

08/02/2019 Berlinale Panorama 2019

International Sales

Les Films du Losange

Synopsis

Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter jet pilot on a mission in the Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young man from Algerian descent is asked by his brother to do him a deceivingly simple favour. An Italian woman, who works in the heart of the European Institutions, is slowly losing control under the pressure of her demanding life. The same question that seems to haunt the city, looms over their lives, where do we go from here?

Genre

Drama

Awards & Festivals

Official Selection, Panorama Berlinale, 2019

Press & Media

A slow, poetic study of lost souls adrift in a European metropolis. — Screen International

[Hellhole] is a challenging experimental tone poem that’s almost as much an art installation as a narrative feature. — The Hollywood Reporter

A cinema of vision, masterfully delivered by the film’s chief operator, Nicolas Karakatsanis — Cineuropa

Photos

Information

Producers

Tomas Leyers (Minds Meet – Belgium)

Coproducers

Petra Goedings (Phanta Film – Netherlands)

Nationalities

Belgium, Netherlands

International Sales

Les Films du Losange

Year of production

2019

Screenplay

Bas Devos

Image

Nicolas Karakatsanis

Sound

Boris Debackere, Benoit Biral

Editing

Dieter Diependaele

Sets Design

Elsje de Bruin

Costumes

Manon Blom

Music

James Leyland Kirby

Mixing

Kwinten Van Laethem & Simone Galavazi.

Duration

89

Audio Format

5.1