Festa Major

12 year-­old Adama lives in a remote village in West Africa, sheltered by the cliffs. Out beyond lies "the world of wind," the kingdom of wicked spirits hungry for war. When his elder brother Samba suddenly vanishes from the village, Adama decides to set off in search of him, crossing into a Europe in the grip of World War I.

Raulhac, Cantal, France, September 1, 1905. In the forest surrounding his hometown, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a child and then surrenders himself to the authorities.

Titou will soon be forty. He lives high up in a sheep shed in the Corbières mountains. With Soledad, who lives in a nearby caravan, they make their own wine, compose their music, live their love in step with the seasons – much as you might cultivate resistance.

"You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? You want to change the world? Show it." John the Baptist, Gospel of Matthew.

From the tutelary figure of Diourka Medveczky, a 60s' vanguard director and sculptor who now lives modernity as a hermit, Hallelujah! goes into the heart of a France that struggles to remain whole.