Staircase Choir
In a Lyon apartment building, the staircases start singing the secrets of the neighbors when the elevator breaks down.
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The story
When the staircase of an old building begins to harmonize the disputes, apologies, and dreams of the residents, a building manager decides to organize a choir to save the building slated for sale. But each rehearsal reveals a truth no one wanted to hear on the right floor.
- Original title
- La Chorale des Escaliers
- Country / region
- France · Belgium
- Genres
- Comedy · Drama · Fantasy
- Language
- French
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 85:00
- Director
- Claire Montreuil
Creative process
The director, editor, rights manager, French dialogue publisher and European festival delivery lead, and producer validate creative, legal, and cultural releases.
Narrative development, script polish, casting bible, and rights control led by the human team; Runway Gen-4.5 for main cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 Flow for physics, camera cutting, and motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot transformations and continuity fixes; finishing with Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, French proofreading, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, and validation H.265 screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Japanese · Thai · French · Spanish · German