A Bump in the Heart

Kirill Patou is 35 years old and struggles to find a soul mate. To experience the ideal romance, Kirill escapes into an imaginary life. Through his drawings, he becomes a valiant knight who declares his love for the princess of his dreams. A rapper full of confidence in his room, he is facing his fans. But Kirill has a Down syndrome and reality always brings him back to being different while looking for love and ideals.

Feelings of love are often times weaved through desire, power, and fetish. The condition of love is not rational, but an experience that radiates in different directions. When is love genuine and not a manipulation or the product of a misplaced fantasy?

Jury Award and Public Award at Brussels International Film Festival.

The film will be screened together with a shortfilm:

A CONCRETE MEMORY
Ghassan Saleh, 2022, LB, 4 min.

The protagonist, a student living in Muenster, Germany, finds himself digging through childhood school memories in Lebanon upon encountering the six-legged concrete block in the city's harbor.