Le gitan
Florence, a lawyer overwhelmed by her family life, decides to buy a humanoid robot with a perfect physique. The robot meets all her expectations: maintain the house, take care of the children, and more... By maliciously disrupting their daily routine, the robot also arouses the jealousy of her self-centered careless husband, Franck, a second-class actor who suddenly realizes he must make some efforts not to lose the love of his wife.
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.
Father's Posthumous Buddy
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Observer
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by.
Le Colombien
それぞれの息子が地元の少年サッカーチームで一緒に練習に励むなど、穏やかな日々を送るスピード狂のタクシー運転手ダニエルとドジな刑事エミリアン。そんな中、17か国から指名手配される凶悪犯“ベルギーの怪物”を護送する任務が、マルセイユ警察に舞い込む。しかし、エミリアンのドジで犯人に逃げられてしまい……。
Wyeth's Aide-de-Camp
5歳の時に誘拐され、悪徳高利貸しによって“闘犬”になるべく育てられた男ダニー。常に首輪をはめられ、脅迫要員として借金の取り立てと闘いに明け暮れていたが、盲目のピアノ調律師との出会いを通して、次第に人間性を取り戻していく……。