Bright Heart

As they have a lounge in the sun in a bucolic and flowery clearing with friends, Mehdi and Azzedine fall in love. They leave the clearing together looking for a calm place in the woods. But an elegant vampire arrives.

Tarek Lakhrissi’s futuristic narrative Out of the Blue takes place at a radical moment in time, when a politically conservative era is suddenly coming to an end. Lakhrissi avoids traditional apocalyptic narratives to meditate instead on the nature of transition itself. In the final scene, the film’s central character delivers a thoughtful speech exploring ideas of freedom and liberty, self-determination and queer futurity.