UNREAL ESTATE AGENT

DIRECTED BY BODHI LE BELLE

Dark Comedy

Netherlands

12′

2025

SYNOPSYS
When benign starter Jos accidentally kills the realtor during a house visit, he will have to be merciless to provide his new family a home. Pressurized by his pregnant girlfriend Marie, he makes one bad decision after another. But does a ruthless attitude suffice in the overheated housing market?
DIRECTED BY BODHI LE BELLE PRODUCED BY LEON DE LEVITA SEBASTIAN MARTENS KARLIJIN PAARDEKOOPER WILLEM BOS MEREL LASEUR HARRO PRESSER WRITTEN BY BODHI LE BELLE WITH ALEX HENCRICKX ROSA VAL LEEUWEN TEUNIE DE BROUWER LOES SCHNEPPER PUCK VAN STIJN ERGUN SIMSEK JURRIEN REMKES MARIO JUFUWAY MAX VAN KRIJ NICKY VAN EXEL BAS KEIJZER DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY GABOR DEAK EDITOR MICHIEL BOESVELDT SET DESIGNER PIETER CHRISTIAANS COSTUME DESIGNER ALETTE KRAAN MUSIC REMUS OCKELS SOUND DESIGNTHOMAS WAGENAAR

SELECTIONS AND AWARDS

53. Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
WORLD PREMIERE
2025 - OSCAR ® QUALIFYING 2025
4. Short Out
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
11. The Quarantine Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
2. Hvar Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
7. Inferenze Short Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
39. Edmonton Film Fest
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025 - OSCAR ® QUALIFYING 2025
15. Cyprus ISFF
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
7. Longtake Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
35. Flickerfest
OUT OF COMPETITION
2026 - BAFTA | OSCAR ® QUALIFYING 2026

BODHI LE BELLE

BIO

 

Als As a self-taught writer-director, Bodhi develops suspenseful and tragicomic stories that reflect on people and society for a wide audience. His latest short film Unreal Estate Agent was selected for the Dutch Film Festival. His short film The Ideal Son in Law was selected for ShortCutz Amsterdam and Rotterdams OpenDoek. Bodhi has also been working as a commercial director since 2016. He is currently represented by production house CZAR, that is also the co-producer of Unreal Estate Agent.
2024
UNREAL ESTATE AGENT (Dark Comedy, 12', NL)
2017
THE IDEAL SON IN LAW (Dark Comedy, 8', NL)
2016
HANS AND WAF (Mockumentary, 3', NL)