Yuiko and Rudolph, two travelling artists come to perform their show Métatron and La Colombe Bleue to children. But Rudolph can't leave the clown he has created. He disappears, leaving Yuiko, alone and heartbroken. Here, where the sun shines and fades, madness, childhood... Here, where the sea retreats, another world opens.
Yuiko Tsuno
Yuiko
Lou Picard
Lou
Rudolph Sumac
Rudolph
Yuiko and Rudolph, two travelling artists come to perform their show Métatron and La Colombe Bleue to children. But Rudolph can't leave the clown he has created. He disappears, leaving Yuiko, alone and heartbroken. Here, where the sun shines and fades, madness, childhood... Here, where the sea retreats, another world opens.
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.
In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.