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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.

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.”

ในคืนคริสต์มาสอีฟ นักบินหนุ่มกองทัพอากาศหลวงได้บินกลับบ้านผ่านทะเลเหนือและตกอยู่ในสถานการณ์อันตราย จนกระทั่งพลเมืองดีสุดลึกลับนำเขาสู่ความปลอดภัย

วิล ใช้เวลาของเขาที่ด่านหน้าห่างไกลในการรับชมถ่ายทอดสดมุมมอง (พีโอวี) ชีวิตประจำวันของผู้คน จนกระทั่งคนหนึ่งหมดอายุขัย ทำให้มีที่ว่างบนโลก ในไม่ช้า ผู้สมัครหลายคน ซึ่งก็คือวิญญาณที่ยังไม่ได้ไปเกิด จะมาที่บ้านของวิลเพื่อเข้ารับการทดสอบความเหมาะสม และสูญสิ้นความทรงจำหากพวกเขาไม่ได้รับเลือก แต่ไม่ช้าวิลเผชิญกับความท้าทายในการดำรงชีวิตของเขาเองในรูปแบบของเอ็มม่า...

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.

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".