Hilife Cinematography

When Jan, director, receives the good news that he can make his first feature film, his source of inspiration and lead actress, Kelly, is in love. With Vincent. Something that the actress has not yet shared with 'her director'. When Jan shows up at Kelly's door with champagne to celebrate that they are finally going to make a film, a confrontational evening follows. In other words, the first honest conversation between two extremely insecure souls.

A family living in a country at war spends the night together. Their conversations revolve around the everyday and survival.

This film is not just an adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Rather, it addresses the larger cultural myth that has grown from the premise of the book: a white man ‘civilising’ indigenous inhabitants of an island, and claiming the territory as his own property. In a time today when the call to decolonise the artworld and its associated institutions has never been more urgent, Deboosere's cinematic intervention resonates with a large body of work seeking to destabilise and replace the ideology of imperialism. The result is a singular, subversive film, satirical and surprisingly charming at the same time, which makes sure to pay just as much attention to animals and the natural world as to the follies of human-constructed ‘anthropocene’ history.

Lifelong Syrian friends Qusay and Nabil spend a day in their Berlin apartment, drifting through dreams, archival footage and present-day events to confront the shifting faces of political violence. Together, they hold on to love and care as the most radical acts of resistance.