HEART OF LIGHT – eleven songs for Fiji

Nach Jahrzehnten im Ausland kehrt Iona (Tilda Swinton) in ihr Elternhaus auf Fidschi zurück, in der Hoffnung, dort Antworten auf viele Fragen zu finden, die sie über die Zivilisation und deren Unzufriedenheit hat.

"Born in Jamaica and raised partly on Fiji, yet all through the last decades based in Berlin, Cynthia Beatt headed back to the South Sea archipelago she once called home for Heart of Light – eleven songs for Fiji. This time, it’s Beatt’s by-now alter ego Tilda Swinton as Iona who keeps all the different strands and levels of the film’s story of homecoming, loss and life lessons together, often shot at places remembered and too often found changed from what once they were. Heart of Light – eleven songs for Fiji finds its very own Matisseian bearing and balance in the shape of an epic cine-poem, where remedies for the world’s ills might be found at its edge." - Olaf Möller