La Maison en Petits Cubes

In a town slowly disappearing beneath rising water, an elderly man keeps adding new levels to his home so he can stay above the flood. When his cherished smoking pipe slips into the submerged lower floors, he descends into the waterlogged depths to retrieve it—moving through the earlier layers of the house and the moments of his life tied to them.

La Maison en Petits Cubes is an award-winning drama short that reflects on time’s quiet power to bury the past, and on the resolve it takes to keep living forward even as memories sink out of reach.