The film consists of six parts, each presenting a sequence of interconnected dreams and memories. Each episode intertwines fantasies, visions, fragments of the past, different stages of life, and surreal imagery. The inner world of a person — with its free flow of thought, stream of consciousness, and evolving memory — transforms over time, constantly being reimagined.
Evgeny Kondrov
Narrator #1
Altynai Abdrakhmanova
Narrator #2
Magzhan Yeltaev
Man in the city
Emil Farakhov
(archive footage)
Arslan Zharaspay
(archive footage)
Arina Madaminova
(archive footage)
The film consists of six parts, each presenting a sequence of interconnected dreams and memories. Each episode intertwines fantasies, visions, fragments of the past, different stages of life, and surreal imagery. The inner world of a person — with its free flow of thought, stream of consciousness, and evolving memory — transforms over time, constantly being reimagined.
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves, and leather-clad bikers.
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.