World premiere

Bula

Local title
Bula
Title in Russian
Була
Original title
Bula
Director
Boris Baum
Country
Belgium, Brazil
Year
2020
Programme
Rebels with a Cause Competition

Marcelo likes to play black metal with his solo band, tinker with amateur science and wear a suit whenever it seems even the least bit appropriate. His destitute situation in a conformist Belgian suburb pales compared to his uncle who prefers to wear dresses and sometimes even naughty fishnet stockings. At the beginning of summer, an unexpected message arrives about the death of Marcelo’s father who was an anthropologist. That gives the dynamic duo an opportunity to escape the debilitating mediocracy and to travel to a faraway island to find out the truth about what happened.

Boris Baum brings a fresh breath to the road movie genre with a remarkably original approach which dares risk with technical eclecticism and makes self-aware forays into indie cliches and the skewed reality of art house, while not balking from the freshness of guerilla style solutions.

Elise Eimre

Director
Boris Baum
Screenwriter
Boris Baum, Sébastien Tixador
Cast
Matthieu Delaunay, Xavier Gallais, Zoé Adjani, Lula Cotton-Frapier, Éric Chantelauze
Producer
Boris Baum
DoP
Boris Baum, Clemence Thurninger, Mauricio Padilha
Editor
Nina Haditalab, Tuong Vi Nguyen-Long
Music
Mathieu Gauriat
Production
Les Films de la Récré
Runtime
Language
Portuguese, French
Subtitles
English
Trailer
Q&A with the filmmaker