April and the Extraordinary World 2015
It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Angelo is a ten-year-old who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he goes to visit his granny, his parents leave him behind at a rest stop, and he decides to cut through the forest in search of them.
Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri, their discreet and usually silent father, does not speak at all about his past, so they imagine that as a young man he was an adventurer, a pirate or a treasure hunter.
In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daughter disrupt the Stone Age routine. After a tragic-comedy round-trip to the future, they accidentally bring back an Ikea “bent key”, which will at last trigger Evolution, for better or for worse… Writing, religion, politics… who will be capable of putting an end to these disasters?
Badluck is a man with the head of a fish (this is a play on words in French between « poisse » – bad luck and « poisson » – fish). Bubbles of bad luck come out of his mouth. When one of the bubbles follows somebody, it throws a spell on that person. And the victim is sent into a tailspin of misery and bad luck where the worst that can possibly happen always does, right up until death, in the most incredible circumstances (but meaningless for the other protagonists) ends his or her cycle of bad luck. With dark, scathing irony, the “Badluck” Chronicles will allow you to have a great deal of fun at somebody else’s expense. And you won’t even feel guilty about it !
In the near future, a technical diver couple, Ina and Claude, join the crew of an underwater drilling station on a mission to stop a cataclysmic oil spill. While working cut off from the world in extreme conditions, the onboard doctor is infected by a parasitic worm. One by one, the crew members are infected by this tapeworm, which exacerbates its host's most extreme impulses, feeding off their endorphins like an emotional vampire.
In the garage of a quiet house, two children rummage through the shelves and accidentally knock over a can of oil. A drop falls and transforms into Goutix, the official mascot of Méroll, frying and motor oils. Goutix will take the kids on a wonderful and informative journey to the Méroll factory in question. You too, at the table or in the garage, ask for the best: Méroll oil!
A girl who lives in Saigon, Vietnam, has a mother who sells cold coffee, but after her mother's decease she has to leave school and take over the family business.
Julie doesn't manage to fit in at her school. The arrival of Émile, an autistic child, will change all that.
Kim, a young thug unfairly accused of treason, is forced to flee Saigon and its Chinese mafia. Hurt and confused, he is rescued by a weird duo: Thao, a one-legged old gambler and his granddaughter Lan. Through the small roads of the Mekong Delta, the trio flees to Cambodia…
“Like rabbits” is the second part of “Chronicles of bad luck”. The man with the fish head continues his melancholy stroll through a fun fair, randomly distributing, its bubbles of misfortune. As its title suggests, there is a lot of talk of rabbits, but don't let that make you forget the crows. And if you see in this movie, a sordid portrait of a badly barred humanity, your mind may have gone awry.
In an abandoned industrial environment, an old man begins a mystical and solitary journey. His quest for the truth takes him into the factory's depths, to the heart of the problem.
Fifty years separate Irène and Sandrine. One, from Russian nobility, lived through the fall of the regime, the absence of an exiled father, and an adoptive family. The other grew up spending her playtime reconstructing a fairy-tale Russian world.
The world seems to fall apart around Claire, a young woman anxious, anxiety attacks and victim aberrations of reality. She will discover that the worst nightmare is to wake up.