To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier, nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham...
Arrivata dallo spazio profondo, una mucca intergalattica invita BoOzy’ OS, un uomo preistorico muscolare, a partecipare al più grande festival di film d'animazione dell'universo. BoOzy’ OS si immagina già come la star principale e parte alla ricerca di “Cristal”, il famoso premio di Annecy, con l'aiuto di OSmic the Hedgeh’ OS e di altri ragazzi cool. Però Mari’ OS, losco pancione baffuto, è ben determinato ad accaparrarsi il malloppo prima di lui.
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician. The complex quantum time theory is blended with philosophical musings about art as the way we understand our history and memories, with gunfights, horses, dance halls, cacti, and saloons!
A young woman opens an old family cookbook. From the pages appear miniature nuns in pop-up illustrations. The nuns come to life, jumping out of the book, and help the woman prepare convent sweets recipe for her bakery.
The sea can be many things; provider of food and work, playmate or harbinger of death. Set in the 1950s in the fishing town of Nazare, the ocean takes different shapes as it interacts with each member of a small family.
The sun rises in the city of Lisbon, the morning after its biggest festival, Santo Antonio. As the citizens wake up and start their day, the decorations from the party come to life to leave the city.
In the heart of the Douro Valley, the sun still illuminates the last gestures of the grape harvesters. The abundant nature sees the children wandering around, the landscapes change over the hours but already, a light wind lets herald the end of the holiday.
On a cork oak farm deep in the village of Aldeia Velha, the warm Portuguese sun beams down on the white walls of a family home. Life is sweet here. Cherish these moments spent together.
It is cold and dark. In between surreal waves and the morning haze, we catch a glimpse of the emerging glows. The sea breeze wiggles and writhes, twisting and turning, embracing the shore under its steady growl. And on the sand, a young man stares into the far end of the ocean.
What is life without friendship? The threads of our lovers’ handkerchief bring to life the Portuguese tradition and tie the bond between two best friends. Peak with us into what makes up a connection between two little girls.
Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist.
In a martial arts boarding school in northern China, a little girl fights to be a champion.
Backstage of a traditional Chinese opera, the staff and performers are bringing a play to life: "The Legend of the White Snake."
A warm summer day, bread and wine on the table, it's a portuguese house.
On the hilly lands of Portugal, a fire breaks out. Right after the blaze come the ashes, and following the ashes, the forest begins its rebirth.
On a renovation site in Shanghai in the 80’s, workers are waking up from their daily nap and going back to work.