Komma

Short gangster film based on a novella by Belgian writer Hugo Claus.

After the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in 2014, people in Brussels are plagued with a very peculiar disease — they can’t help dancing in the streets. Modern trauma is dealt in a raw, poetic way in this film, part-documentary on a neighbourhood, part-urban-magical-spell.

Stella is a failed actress who loses her ability to laugh after sustaining a brain injury. Without humor, she feels she 'cant function anymore. Her neurologist advices her to meet Frank, a geologist-driller-blaster who works in a stone quarry and suffers from the same syndrome...

Neighbors at first, Emma and Sacha became lovers in the attic room of the house that was divided between their two families. Their relationship led to the birth of a daughter, Paulette. But a few years later, they separated. Paulette lives with her mother and sees her father every second weekend. During the festive season, the divorce agreement requires that Paulette spend Christmas with her father’s family and New Year’s Eve with her mother’s family.