Keswick Film Festival

Synopsis

This "gentle, delicate and quietly beguiling movie, a prize winner last year in Berlin, is about love and fate. It crept up on me at its own measured walking pace" - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian. Stefan, a Romanian construction worker is packing up to leave Brussels, taking containers of homemade soup to his friends as goodbye gifts. Shuxiu is a Chinese student studying mosses, working in her Aunt's takeaway part-time, where Stefan shelters from the rain. He meets her again in the woods where she is picking up moss samples…

"The film's title is thought-provoking. It's like a children's picture book: here is the city, here are the woods. Here is always right now. The saying isn't 'live in the there and now'. Here is close, whereas 'there' is far. Shuxiu gestures for Stefan to come close, so she can show him the moss: 'Here, look.' Stefan passes out soup, 'Here's some soup.'" - Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com.

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