CREDITS Original title: Welcome Home Director: Tom Heene Original screenplay: Tom Heene Cast: Manah Depauw, Kurt Vandendriessche, Nader Farman, Felipe Mafasoli Photography: Frédéric Noirhomme Editing: David Verdurme Sound: Jean-Luc Audy Sound design: Julie Brenta, Benoit Biral, Renaud Guillaumin, Alexander Davidson Music: Peter Lenaerts Art director: Estelle Rullier Costumes: Géraldine Miesse Make-up: Alexandra Kourline FORMAT Original version: French, English, Dutch Running time: 73’ Format: DCP - 1:1.85 - Dolby SRD - Colour Year of production: 2012 PRODUCTION Production company: Minds Meet & La Parti Flemish producer: Tomas Leyers Co-producers: Stempel, Alea Jacta Postproduction Supported by / in cooperation with: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), CCA INFO Minds Meet
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Welcome Home shows three significant moments in the life of Lila, a young woman in search of identity. She is the common thread between the three men she meets in a day. The film is a sharp love letter to Brussels, a European Babylon with coming and going inhabitants, affected by the constant transformation of its urbanism and buildings..
ABOUT THE PRODUCER Tomas Leyers
Tomas Leyers co-founded Minds Meet with Caroline Strubbe. Based in Brussels, the production company specialises in the creation of artistic European cinema and the set up of unique live events. Besides producing these large events, he started his EAVE workshops in 2006 and was a Producer on the Move in Cannes 2007. In 2008 he produced Strubbe’s first feature Lost Persons Area (Cannes, International Critics’ Week 2009) and the short Kaïn (Berlinale Shorts, 2009) by Kristof Hoornaert. Meanwhile he co-produced several films like The Day God Walked Away by Philippe Van Leeuw (Toronto 2009), La cantante de tango (Locarno 2009) by Diego Martinez Vignatti and Tango Libre by Frédéric Fonteyne (Venice, Orrizonti 2012). He picked up Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (Cannes, Directors Fortnight 2010) by Gust Van den Berghe whose Blue Bird he produced in 2011 (Cannes, Directors’ Fortnight 2011). Leyers currently is in the process of developing among others a couple of features such as Deep in a Dream of You (Caroline Strubbe’s second), Just In Time For Something (Bas Devos) and documentaries as Behind The Redwood Curtain (Liesbet De Ceulaer).
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Tom Heene
Tom Heene works on multidisciplinary projects in film and other audiovisual arts. He is a digital media artist, a director, an assistant director and a production manager. He worked on movies made by filmmakers like Frédéric Fonteyne, Philippe Falardeau, Jürgen Leth and Lars von Trier. In media arts he collaborates with visual artists, scientists and code artists on interactive environments using digital tools. The issues in his installations are about questioning alternative cinematic experiences, the future of society and the human relation with new media. Tom’s films explore the tense crossing of human trajectories in his hometown Brussels, which he considers as an endless source of inspiration.