Heiner Goebbels, an eclectic composer who, in his fifty-year career, has experimented with everything, is also the main figure in this film, which goes over the creative process that led him to conceive A House of Call, his latest symphony.
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. She is ready to sacrifice him to save her own skin. But their wounds bring them together. Will this be enough to make them something other than what colonisation has decided they should be: a savage to be exterminated, an African to be enslaved?
A group of friends try to enjoy a spooky experience at one of the most famous escape rooms in the world. Little do they know the game will turn into a true fight for survival.
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.
In El Quiñon, a newly-built but half-finished city in Spain, the ochre facades are juxtaposed to the fields of La Mancha. Residents talk about their hopes and dreams, illustrating through these revelations different ways of living in a city that was hard-hit by the financial crisis – and its continuing fallout – of 2008.
A rock radio. A girl on air. Boys with long hair. A dog. There’s love and fragmentation. Nothing is easy. Everything can happen.
Omar, 30 years old, comes out of a long psychiatric hospital stay. He returns to the neighborhood where he lives with his father and his little sister. But the only thing interesting him is having news from Ania, his ex-girlfriend.
The day after a party where Mario, in a trance, danced all night, Amine and Victor, his two lovers, find him dead in his bed. Lost with their friends in a house in the middle of nowhere, all mutations become possible. And then there's a leopard on the horizon.
The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo, a girl from high society, a lonesome alcoholic cop and a drag queen cabaret performer; interwine on the eve of a hurricane fallowing the murder of a young poet and drug dealer
Near her native village, a woman is victim of a road accident. Seriously injured and in shock, she leaves her car and gets lost in the depths of a forest. There, suspended between life and death, she relives a childhood memory.
Under the pine forest, the winds sweep a villa deserted by its inhabitants. Selim Bentounes surrounds himself with relatives to film the dynamics of a group of occupants, protecting the last beating heart of a universe without feelings. The dystopian flavor of Little Heart is not tasted in a profusion of effects. The film elegantly carves a melancholy into the setting, the sound, the faces and the everyday scenes that are not quite what they seem. It is far from the others that this film-parable goes however, so that the world is reborn for a moment, in an explosion of pure emotions.
