Screen can reveal the first trailer for Teodora Ana Mihai’s Heysel 85, which plays as a Special Gala at this year’s Berlin film festival.

The film isabout the Heysel football stadium disaster, where 39 people lost their lives during the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus in 1985.

It stars Violet Braeckman (a 2026 European Film Promotion Shooting Star) as the daughter of the mayor of Brussels and Matteo Simoni as a journalist drawn into the heart of the tragedy.

Heysel 85 is produced by Hans Everaert for Menuetto, in co-production with Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve, the Netherlands’ Topkapi Films and Germany’s Leitwolf.

Mihai’s feature debut La Civil played in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2021.

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