François Vacarisas

François Vacarisas is a writer-director. Originally from Paris, he has lived in Brussels for nearly ten years. He works on the margins, precariousness and social violence, through stories bordering on genre films. This is particularly true of his short film “Bluestar”, which was well received at numerous festivals. The same is true of his first feature-length project, “Life is Good”, which he has started to write with the support of Groupe Ouest.

Life is Good

Annual Selection 2024

Omar is in his thirties. He’s a poor worker working as a temp and having to live out of his car. Totally lacking in social skills, he moves through life like a shadow. His new temp job is a gravedigger. He meets Steve, his boss, a man of dubious morals who deals in jewelry and gold teeth taken from corpses during exhumations. Steve offers to rent him the little house in the cemetery. It’s in this house that Omar meets the ghost of Mona, the murdered woman condemned to relive the last hours of her life, including her death, every night. And so begins Omar’s other-worldly room mate relationship with Mona. As they get to know each other, Omar sets out to solve the enigma of Mona’s life and death. He sets out to find her killer and free her from her curse. But Steve doesn’t take kindly to his new colleague’s plan.