After a buzzy debut almost eight months ago in Berlin, Teodora Ana Mihai has finally begun the international launch of her latest feature, Heysel 85, and this week the Romanian-Belgian filmmaker is at the Tokyo Film Festival, where the film has received its Asian premiere.
Directed by Mihai, from a screenplay she co-wrote with Lode Desmet and Isabelle Darras, Heysel 85 is inspired by the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster in Brussels, where 39 people died ahead of the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.
“This is one of those moments in Belgium that’s comparable to 9/11 in the
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