Datæterna

It’s the end of the day on a Swiss train. Yalini, a Tamil-Swiss woman, receives a call from her parents. As the conversation becomes sensitive and tense, one of the passengers approaches her and expresses annoyance that she’s speaking too loudly. On that train journey, Yalini faces two worlds that do not understand her.

Exhausted from decades of living, an elderly man sets foot aboard a streetcar for a journey that will prove to be very unusual. He does not understand where he is. He does not understand how he has come to this place. But music surrounds him and melodies lead the way.

Out of sight, a factory produces a chromic-sulfuric mix which is used in the industry to dissolve organic matter. Zaïna and her apprentice Romuald keep a watchful eye on the aera.

An Open World with so many possibilities and ways to be explored. Through multiple universes, a man got lost for a long time. His movements and his thoughts adrift into a labyrinth.

A YouTuber navigates between isolation and connectivity in a crumbling Cuba. Whispers of technology and birdsong intertwine, reflecting the frozen and closed-off state of his world.

Armenia, Spring 2021. Léon, a Frenchman of Armenian descent, returns to his family to bury his cousin Hrant, who died six months earlier during the 44-day war.

In the Forest of Spirits, three ghosts monologue all that they were unable to say while alive. Each ghost moves to the places of his memory and listens to the world of the living. The ghosts do not manage to separate themselves from life.

Jean, a consumer, is looking for his wife in La Défense, France's largest business and commercial district. He meets Matthieu, a business man, who offers to help him on his lunch break. While wandering in this open-air labyrinth, Matthieu shares some thoughts on his work with Jean, who gradually forgets the reason why he came here.