Un pays plus beau qu'avant
Directed by Hannes Verhoustraete, 2019
Main Info
Creative documentary, Belgium
Synopsis
UN PAYS PLUS BEAU QU’AVANT is a documentary film about a Congolese businessman in Brussels. The wanderings of Jean-Simon reveal a microcosm of informal commerce within the Congolese community. The everyday economic urgency of this “humble salesman” is tied to the political and humanitarian urgency that animates the diaspora faced with the situation in Congo today and the colonial history. The film orbits around these two imperatives, in a negotiation between here and elsewhere, the past and the present.
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Screening
Now available on VOD:
In Belgium with Dutch subtitles: Dalton.be
Worldwide with French and English subtitles: Avila Film
Worldwide with English subtitles: Vimeo
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Credits
Written and directed by Hannes Verhoustraete
Produced by Emmy Oost for Cassette for timescapes
Coproduced by L'atelier cinéma – GSARA
DOP Hannes Verhoustraete
Sound Engineers Lennert De Taeye, Ruben Desiere, Nina de Vroome, Liesbeth Beeckman
Editors Geoffroy Cernaix, Hannes Verhoustraete, Elias Grootaers
Sound design Valérie Le Docte
Mix Simon Jamart
Music Joe McPhee
With the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), The Pascal Decroos Fund, KASK / School of Arts Ghent, Beursschouwburg, VGC
Selections
Millenium Festival (BE) - world premiere Belgian competition
Courtisane Festival (BE)
Almost Summer Festival (BE)
Love at First Sight Festival (BE)
