The Garden of Clocks
A retired botanist inherits a greenhouse where every plant blooms at a different hour from her life.
IXF-AIF-2026-DBGHNEPC9A
The story
In Nantes, botanist Odile returns to the family greenhouse to sell it and finds clocks growing from vines. Each bloom opens onto one hour she abandoned: a friendship, a betrayal, a daughter at the train station. To close the greenhouse, she must prune the one memory that keeps the garden alive.
- Original title
- Le Jardin des Horloges
- Country / region
- France · Belgium
- Genres
- Fantasy · Drama
- Language
- French
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 90:00
- Director
- Claire Montreuil
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, French dialogue editor and European festival delivery reviewer, and producer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led story development, screenplay polish, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level transformation and continuity fixes; Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, native-language review, 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, H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic