Director: Michiel Blanchart
One ordinary shift as a locksmith turns into a race against the clock when a stranger's request pulls a young man into a citywide manhunt he didn't ask for.
What is Night Call about?
By day Mady studies, by night he works as a locksmith, moving through a city that feels quiet until it suddenly isn't. When a young woman named Claire asks for his help getting into an apartment, he agrees without much thought — the kind of small favor he's done a hundred times before. But Claire is hiding far more than a locked door, and within hours Mady finds himself wanted by people with very different intentions, forced to piece together the truth before the night runs out. Director Michiel Blanchart keeps the pace relentless, compressing the entire plot into a single overnight stretch across a city on edge, so every new location feels like another trap closing in. The film trades big set pieces for tight, claustrophobic tension, letting Mady's mounting exhaustion do as much work as any chase scene.
Cast & crew
Jonathan Feltre plays Mady with a wide-eyed, increasingly desperate energy that carries the film's momentum, while Natacha Krief keeps Claire's motives genuinely unreadable for most of the runtime. Romain Duris brings a harder edge as one of the figures closing in, and Jonas Bloquet adds weight to the pursuit.
Context & significance
"Night Call" is a French-Belgian production that leans on real Brussels locations rather than studio sets, giving its overnight chase a grounded, lived-in feel rather than a stylized one. It arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of tightly-scoped European thrillers built around a single night and a ticking clock, a format that keeps budgets modest while raising the tension.
Where & how to watch
"Night Call" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and streaming it only takes a free K-Time account login.