HOTEL SWOONI

with Sara De Roo, Geert Van Rampelberg, Natali Broods, Viviane De Muynck,
Vigny Tchakouani, Issaka Sawadogo, Wim Danckaert, Stijn Van Opstal,
Maaike Neuville, Enrique De Roeck, Tibo Vandenborre

The live of six people intertwine during 24 hours in a hotel. As the city suffers from a sweltering heat wave, inside, emotions start to run high…

‘Hotel Swooni’ is a surprising kaleidoscope of hopes and doubts, passion and betrayal, in which no one checks out quite the same as they checked in.

Kaat Beels’ feature debut explores the destructive consequences when six seemingly unrelated individuals descent upon Hotel Swooni.

‘Hotel Swooni’ is produced by Eyeworks (formerly MMG), one of Flanders’ most prominent film production companies. Its impressive filmography features critical successes such as Crazy Love, Brussels by Night, Wait Until Spring Bandini, Ben X, as well as international hits such as The Alzheimer Case (aka The Memory of a Killer), Dossier K and Bullhead.

Original Dutch/French version with English subtitles

ATTENDING : Kaat Beels (director), Sept. 11-15

INTERVIEWS : Tuesday 13 & Wednesday 14 September

PRESS & INDUSTRY SCREENINGS :
Monday, Sept. 12 at 12:15pm – Scotiabank Theatre 6 (259 Richmond Street West)
Thursday, Sept. 15 at 01:00pm – Scotiabank Theatre 3 (259 Richmond Street West)

PUBLIC SCREENINGS :
Sunday, Sept.11 at 03:00pm – AMC 2 (10 Dundas Street East)
Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 06:45pm – AMC 5 (10 Dundas Street East)
Sunday, Sept. 18 at 09:45am – AMC 3 (10 Dundas Street East)

SYNOPSIS :
6 lives. 24 hours. A hotel in the middle of a heat wave.
Anna and Hendrik have it all: a great son, a good job, a lovely house… But the wedding they
Attend in the hotel forces them to reflect on the choices they have made. Hendrik is happy. Anna is not. ‘Is that all there is?’ she wonders. Especially when her lover shows up, asking her to run off with him to greener pastures…
Violette wants to reconcile with her daughter Vicky before she dies. But Vicky, a chambermaid in the hotel, finds it hard to forget old hurts. She takes care of Joyeux, a young African refugee hiding in the hotel from the police. She lets her mother believe the boy is her own son. After all, with her he’ll have a much better life…
But then Amadou, Joyeux’ father, arrives at the hotel looking for his son. And the lives of all these people will be irrevocably intertwined.
At least until the heat breaks and the rains offer some relief…

PRODUCER : Peter Bouckaert – Eyeworks Film & TV Drama – www.eyeworksfilm.be
SALES : Xiaojuan Zhou – Delphis Films – www.delphisfilms.com
INTERNATIONAL PRESS : The PR Factory