On the shore of a Swiss lake, in a strange time, the fish have vanished. A young fisherman, Foilleron, claims to have found a solution by casting his line into the lake’s depths. He brings up a gigantic creature whose sale sparks a collective frenzy, as he is hailed as a savior. As the town sinks into greed and violence, something begins to shift.
Cyril Metzger
Gilles Tschudi
Roland Vouilloz
On the shore of a Swiss lake, in a strange time, the fish have vanished. A young fisherman, Foilleron, claims to have found a solution by casting his line into the lake’s depths. He brings up a gigantic creature whose sale sparks a collective frenzy, as he is hailed as a savior. As the town sinks into greed and violence, something begins to shift.
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.
A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.