10 minutes, one stroke, a living room full of strangers — your grandma's secrets are about to get paid for.
Romy and her grandmother live in a small apartment like two friends. One works in a snack and the other runs an improvised beauty salon in the living room. The day her grandmother has a stroke, Romy has to take over the beauty salon.
Acting
Nell Geeraerd's panic-perfect stillness carrying entire emotional arcs.
Direction
Pia Orts compresses a feature's worth of relationship into 600 seconds.
Editing
The pop music cuts that turn absurdity into ache.
Director
Pia Orts
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgian short film funding often mandates regional dialect use — Brol's French-speaking Brussels setting reflects a specific Flemish-Walloon production tension.
Director Pia Orts cast her actual grandmother's hairdresser as one of the clients; the salon's props came from a real closed business in Anderlecht.
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