

It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.

In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated...

After his wife dies, a 75 year old retiree has to put up with the intrusion into his idle life of other family members.

Eight-year-old Madeleine accompanies her mother, a beautician, to the homes of new clients. When she arrives at one of the clients, she meets Eugenie, Constance, and Emerald, who invite her to the basement to play a cruel board game.

As he fight to win an election, a young ultra-liberal politician, overpowered by ambition, awakens in the body of his maid, a veiled Kurdish, Muslim asylum-seeker. Will they eventually overcome their prejudice so as not to lose ev...