Acting
1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old SĂ©bastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, he notices his mother's loneliness and how there is a lack of love in her life. When they move the house, it won't be long before he sees in Philippe, his new neighbor, an ideal Prince Charming for his mother.
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.
Bank manager Frank and writer Patrizia meet by coincidence again and again at the airport. They commute between Dusseldorf and Paris, but behind their travels are two fateful stories. Frank wants to complete the business of his life, Patrizia visits her lover, who is in a coma since a car accident. For both life comes out of joint and they each suffer heavy losses. What connects them is the search for hold, a listener, the need to be needed and the hope that there is a beginning in each end.
A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously planned wedding into chaos. Is chance about to give fate a helping hand?
Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day, fate decided otherwise. Due to a misunderstanding, he is taken hostage by an impoverished father and his wild son...
Roger, a Luxembourgish writer, transforms the characters around him into fictional beings: playing with reality and fantasy, he makes his novel "d'Symmetrie vum Päiperlek", a poetic and dreamlike fantasy, when multicolored butterflies come to land on the chessboard of a rather gloomy daily life.
The story of Johnny Chicago's brother, Ray, and his friend Chuck Moreno, both petty criminals. The latter wants to take the ashes of Johnny, who was fatally wounded by the police after a bank heist, to Chicago.
In August 1914, Belle, a young well-bred lady and Betty, her chambermaid, discover a big trunk in the attic. When they manage to open it, thousands of photos and postcards spread all over the floor to form a pile of memories. Thus, the ladies start to reminisce about what was called "la Belle Époque".
