By the Kiss

A short introduction to the film Knife+Heart (2018).

An unusual bandit trio spends autumn in a village by Lake Maggiore. In their holiday apartment they create a parallel world, which little reflects their surroundings. As the pressures of the outside world begin to weigh in on them, they kidnap a tourist in order to give their lives a purpose.

I wake up gagged, hands and feet tied. I can see the clouds go by through the window. I'm in the back seat of a car. Who is this man driving? And where is he taking me?

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood.

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

In a small town in northern Poland, 18-year-old Majka is convinced that she is possessed. She decides to rely on the skills of a local priest to expel the demon, which doesn’t stop her from jokingly referencing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist with her best friend.

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.

Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her…

Actor and director Jacques Nolot opens up to the camera about his desires, doubts, anxieties… and of what fulfils him in life as much as it connects him with death. Between dreams and memory, everything seems to gradually crumble.

November 1989: in Brussels, Victor is looking for Elina, his summer love who mysteriously vanished. He meets Damian, an enlightened English journalist, and Rosie, a punkish Dutch barmaid. Together, they dive into the night, driven by the New Beat fever.

Macha, Nathan and Walter are awaited by a young man outside the high-school. He's here to lead them. Away from the city. To the sea. Into a night they might never return from.

Mock trailer for a fictional porn film within Yann Gonzales' movie Knife+Heart.

Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies.

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.

Kate screams, burns, kisses furiously. But the times are tepid, the music "cold," and Kate can no longer come. Until Julien, who died ten years ago, gives her pleasure again.