Manchester is a struggling photographer with charm to spare who falls for Noon, a sweet but spunky woman who works as a taxidermist. Noon is also drawn to Manchester, and together they enjoy a wildly enthusiastic sexual relationship that reflects their innocent but deeply passionate love for one another.
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
이란 사람들은 새해가 다가오면 금붕어를 산다. 설날 장을 보러간 엄마 손에 이끌려 집에 돌아온 라지에는 시장에서 봐놨던 크고 이쁜 금붕어를 사고 싶어서 안달이다. 하지만 엄마는 들은 척도 않고 콧방귀만 뀌는데. 결국 라지에는 오빠의 지원 사격으로 금붕어 값을 타내 단숨에 시장으로 뛰어 나간다. 라지에의 돈을 노리는 시장 어귀의 뱀 마술사. 자칭 탁발승이라 하는 이 두 할아범은 라지에의 어항속 돈을 순식간에 홀리듯 빼앗는다. 엉엉 우는 라지에를 측은히 여긴 한 마술사가 돈을 돌려주지만, 소녀는 금붕어 가게로 가는 도중 하수구에 돈을 빠뜨린다. 안절부절 못하는 라지에. 도와 주겠다는 양복점 아저씨는 계속 손님과 싸우고만 있고, 하수구를 열 수 있는 가게집 주인은 문을 닫고 돌아올 줄을 모른다. 한 시간이 넘도록 라지에가 집에 돌아오지 않자, 동생을 찾아나선 오빠는 결국 라지에를 찾아내지만 그 역시 돈을 끄집어 낼 묘안은 없다. 그러던 중 그곳을 지나가던 풍선팔이 소년의 막대가 눈에 들어오고. 껌을 묻혀 돈을 건져 올린 라지에 오누이는 금붕어를 사러간다. 그리고 그 자리에는 팔다남은 하얀 풍선을 들고 있는 소년만이 남는다.
Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. But her mother is unbending and otherwise inclined. She will not let her get away with anything, and poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behaviour and learn her lesson.
예르지와 아르투르 형제는 아버지가 돌아가신 후 우표 컬렉션을 유산으로 받는다. 이후 이 우표들이 기대 이상의 가치를 가진 물건이란 사실을 알게 된 형제는 무리를 해서라도 컬렉션을 마저 완성시키려 한다.
A fight to get through the gridlock becomes a fight for survival for Amanda as her body comes to a standstill.
Olive brings her new goldfish onto Popeye's ship, but the fish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea. Olive convinces Popeye to go after it, but the fish wants to play and manages to avoid Popeye until both get trapped inside a jellyfish. After taking a severe pounding from the jellyfish, Popeye eats his spinach, takes on various other marine life, and returns the goldfish to its bowl. But Olive can see the fish is unhappy in the bowl, and sets it free again, which is more than Popeye can stand.
Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.
A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of modern Tokyo, the man and the young woman gradually speak of a past they both share, and ultimately a painful love triangle that continues to haunt them. A poetic rumination in love, memories and loss told almost entirely with split screens.
A goldfish dreams of living in the ocean, and ends up getting there after being accidentally washed down the drain, then finds that it’s too scary.
[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like the fisheye lens has been a powerful tool for the subjective camera. Here it is at the start. (from IMDB)
Aspiring cartoonist and middle-aged gumbuster Cliff Morelli (Jeremy Koerner, Black Cat Whiskey, New York Lately) spends his days at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk performing minimum wage janitorial duties. When he is put on suspension after harassing a teenager and his parents threaten to throw him out of the house, Cliff decides to actively pursue his lifelong animation dreams by reconnecting with his rich brother Jack. After a failed attempt and a string of bad luck, Cliff finds himself at the mercy of the animated characters he has created, and together, they form a devilish plan to exact revenge on all those that have wronged him.
An very very old man lives with his very old cat, his old old goldfish and his old dog on a houseboat, until one day the wolf Cuthbert Q Divine knocks on the door...
The goldfish Märta Proppmätt (Meaty Märta) has a tendency to end up in situations where her hunger forces her to a dilemma. When the aquarium where she lives gets new inhabitants it becomes increasingly hard for Märta to eat and fart her way through life.
Two third graders embark on a mission to save their classes goldfish.
