Heysel 85

HEYSEL 85

Director

Teodora Ana Mihai

Country

Belgium, Netherlands, Germany

Runtime

1 h 30 min

Language

Dutch, French, English, Italian

Synopsis

The deadly 1985 Brussels’ Heysel Stadium riot pulls a mayor’s daughter and an Italian-rooted journalist into a moral and personal reckoning at the center of the tragedy.

Cast

Violet Braeckman, Matteo Simoni, Josse De Pauw, Fabrizio Rongione, Michel de Warzee

Screenplay

Isabelle Darras, Lode Desmet, Hans Everaert, Matthias Lebeer, Teodora Mihai.

Producers

Hans Everaert

About the Director

Belgian-Romanian film director born in Bucharest. She gained international attention with her debut documentary Waiting for August (2014), which won over ten awards and was nominated for the European Film Awards. Her first fiction feature La Civil (2021), developed at Cannes’ Cinéfondation Résidence.