Night Call (französische OmeU) // Fantasy Filmfest White Nights // Deutschlandpremiere // Michiel Blanchart

"The thing is simple: either you become a friend or you become a problem!" Mady knows that gangster boss Yannick's threat is serious. The harmless locksmith already has one foot in the grave. It all started to go wrong when the pretty Claire glamorized him on night duty. The apartment he was supposed to break into for her was obviously not hers. This was made unmistakably clear to him by the rascal who suddenly appeared in the doorway shortly afterwards and rammed his screwdriver into Mady's skull in self-defense. But this is just the prelude to a nerve-wracking chase through the night full of violence and crazy coincidences, in which the young man challenges his fate again and again with every decision he makes.

With its emotional, shocking and ironic twists, Petula Clark's rousing sounds of "La Nuit n'en finit plus" and its breathless action, Belgian director Michiel Blanchart has created one of the best French-language thrillers in years.