Production
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.
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
Five high school students try to break free and search for happiness by any means necessary: carving their bodies, pretending to be blind, reshaping their image on social media, diving into drugs. Their intertwined journeys lead them to glimpse a ray of hope—until everything falls apart at 2:14PM.
1915, Anatolia, Maryam and her brother Varto, two Armenian children, are caught up in the turmoil of war. Hassan, a young Turkish man, is given the difficult mission of rescuing them. The three of them will cross a war-torn country and discover each other beyond their differences. This journey has unexpected consequences in our own time, when a young woman and her teenage son, travel from Istanbul to Paris to meet a grumpy old Armenian.
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.
