Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.
Set in a small theater at the end of the silent film era, a former movie star clings to the past by screening only silent films. His son grows up in this world, unaware of the changes beyond its walls, until a discovery unsettles his beliefs.
Inspired by fragments of poems by Sappho (Island of Lesbos, 600 BC), the first female author known to the Western World. The narrative alludes to Sappho’s poetic expressions and the multiple readings of her figure throughout history.
Curt Nimuendajú is a German ethnologist who lived in Brazil from 1903 until his death. In addition to having studied and defended the rights of about 50 indigenous peoples, he lived as one of them in each tribe. Nimuendajú died in 1945, in the Amazon, under unknown circumstances.
A statement about our wonderfully greedy world. Inspired by an anecdote from the booming Tokyo of the 80s, the film tells the glamorous story of the vicious property shark Akio Kashiwagi. His passion is illegal gambling in the underworld. An American is on his trail, but Akio's greatest enemy is his own insatiable greed.
A woman offers a lock of hair to her magical puppet theatre. She turns the crank handle, and it gives her a gift, the artifact absorbs her into a performance of puppets and insects where her presence will illuminate life.
When an overwhelmed, single dad pig moves his piglets into a rundown trailer park, he fears he's failed his family. But soon his kids create a wildly imaginative game from a simple cardboard box, and Dad has a choice: dwell on the past or join them on their intergalactic adventure.
In a Latin American country, a child’s notebook recounts a series of horrifying events that happened at the Circus of the Big Moustache Clowns. Presented as a children's horror story, it narrates the way in which tricks and torture were performed at the circus.
One ordinary summer day, a child living in the Anatolian countryside kills a bird with his slingshot and is drawn into a whirlwind of intense emotions as he feels deep remorse.
As flight 7836 reaches cruising speed above the Atlantic Ocean, the pilot, co-pilot and flight attendant are startled by an unexpected knock at the door! Should they open the door, or not?
The ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Nothing escapes her deadly pincers. For the blind fish Milva, it's a daily struggle for survival.Fran finds her magnificent and wishes she could see the ocean that way too. Will they be able to overcome their differences ?
June 2013, it’s time for the eagerly-awaited event at the Youth Cultural Center in city Brique-sur-mer: the end-of-year drama class show. Through a chain of untimely events, the two stars of the play find themselves stuck outside the theatre hall.
This is the story of one day of a soldier going to the front, for whom the events that took place along the way become the basis for the presentation of a blissful reality.