The fourth feature film by Bouli Lanners, a filmmaker from Liège, wins the Europa Cinemas Label prize and the Ecumenical Prize at the Berlin Film Festival 2016.
"The First The Last" was selected in the prestigious Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. This selection marked the return of the Liège-born filmmaker to Berlin, where he had already presented his first feature film "Ultranova" in 2005.
A serial festival-goer, Bouli Lanners has been touring the world from one festival to another since his short film "Travellinckx" in 1999. Two years later, his short film "Muno" was selected for the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. In 2005, his first feature film "Ultranova" won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. His second feature film "Eldorado" came away with three awards from the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 where it was presented at the Directors' Fortnight. In 2011, his third feature film "The Giants" was selected to close the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, where it won two awards.
"The First The Last" was premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the presence of its director and lead actors Bouli Lanners, Aurore Broutin, Philippe Rebbot and Virgile Bramly and its producers. The film was crowned with the Europa Cinemas Label prize and the Ecumenical prize!
In an endless windswept plain, Cochise and Gilou, two inseparable bounty hunters are looking for a stolen phone with sensitive content. Their path will cross that of Esther and Willy, a couple on the run. But what if the end of the world is nigh? In this isolated small town where everyone fails, will they find human nature at its best? They may be the last people left on earth, but they are not that different to its first inhabitants.