69 minutes
French & Spanish spoken
Dutch & English surtitled
Fri 14.11.25 – 18:00
Budascoop
Kortrijk
Fri 14.11.25 – 20:15
Budascoop
Kortrijk
A film about how strangeness suddenly becomes familiar
During a sabbatical in Mexico, Belgian journalist Ivan follows the trail of the enigmatic writer Celestino Pérez. Upon arriving in the village where he is supposed to live, the author is nowhere to be found. The writer’s family welcomes Ivan, who, fascinated by the strange daily life of the household, finds himself drawn into an unexpected confinement. As the days pass, his own experience begins to dissolve into the imagined portrait of Celestino.
Fascinated by the apparent opposition between strangeness and familiarity, and inspired by his own embodied experience as a foreigner living in Mexico, Hans Bryssinck started to explore the notion of the intruder, the limits of hospitality, and how a strangeness lurks within each of us. Celestino is his first feature fiction film, tonight on the big screen for the very first time.
Hans Bryssinck is an artist, teacher and narrative practitioner, with a career spanning the visual, performing and audiovisual arts, focusing primarily on collaborative projects. His work includes the film Wilson y Los Más Elegantes (2014).
Hans Bryssinck is an artist, teacher and narrative practitioner, with a career spanning the visual, performing and audiovisual arts, focusing primarily on collaborative projects. His work includes the film Wilson y Los Más Elegantes (2014).
He is co-founder and artistic director of SPIN, a platform for artistic support based in Brussels. He also teaches Performance at the School of Arts in Ghent and Narrative Practices for Community Work and Education at UCIRED in Puebla, Mexico. He has been living in Mexico since 2016, where he wrote the screenplay for Celestino and directed the film.
Since 2019, his artistic and educational practice has been enriched by narrative practices. These bring a different approach to working with people and communities, centering ethics of care.
A film by Hans Bryssinck
A production of Mountain View
With Jonathan Capdevielle, Martha Claudia Moreno, Sandra Celedón, Kerygma Flores, Evangelina Martínez
Script & Direction Hans Bryssinck Cinematography Rosa Hadit Art direction Mara Ugalde Editor Julieta Seco Sound recording Gert Verboven Sound design & mix Matthias Hillegeer Costumes Diana Montesinos Casting Ana Patricia Ortiz Ayala Grading Xavier Dockx Music performance George van Dam
Delegate producer Gert Verboven Coproducer Hans Bryssinck Executive producers Humberto Hinojosa & Pablo García Line producer Wannes Gevaert
A production of Mountain View A coproduction of SPIN
With the support of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Tax Shelter Belgium, BUDA, Beursschouwburg, Colectivo Colmena, nona, VIERNULVIER
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