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- With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
- 1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.
- Weary residents (Soma, Lata, Piyasiri) of a war-ravaged country drift through life.
- Nicu (Razvan Vasilescu) runs a print shop in Bucharest, Romania, and Brindusa (Alexandra Maria Lara) is his secretary and translator. They were lovers years ago; now they maintain a friendly, if occasionally awkward, relationship. When Nicu orders a new printing-press, German engineer Stefan (Felix Klare) is sent to install it. Soon after his arrival, he and Brindusa begin dating. When Nicu learns of their relationship, he grows increasingly obsessed with breaking them up.
- The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
- Felicia expects that her sister will drive her to the Bucharest airport for her flight to Amsterdam. The sister flakes out, triggering a chain of frustrating complications that conspire to keep Felicia waiting with her excessively protective yet well-meaning mother at the airport.
- A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.
- Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult daughter Alice to a vineyard in the Alsace where she is now living with a new family and a new identity. Alice calls on her mother to give herself up, but Judith doesn't regret any of her past deeds.
- Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep, youngest son Jean is thrown out. Angry and threatening, he arrives at Nils and Ida's chalet for a hunting expedition. The next day, he learns how to kill. The following night, his mother's car is set on fire and he is blamed. He disappears into the mountains with a gun. On the third day, it pours down with rain and, in the evening, a storm brews. Shut up in their house, the Klein family await with dread the return of Jean, who will challenge them, weapon in hand.
- A documentary about the life in Tadmor's prison.
- Todor, a small Serbian smuggler, carries crates of cigarettes on his boat. One day, under pressure, he reluctantly accepted a commission to deliver a large wooden crate. Inside is the body of a young woman - still alive but heavily drugged
- Ron has lost his job and watched his family fall apart. He spends his days at the club of his childhood friend, Adi, where he plays cards for money. It is springtime. He meets Dina, an old friend of Adi. They quickly become close, start playing as a team, and move in together. One evening, Ron loses all his money at the tables, gets drunk and is thrown out by Adi's bodyguards. Dina takes advantage of the turmoil to steal from Adi. She convinces Ron to skip town. The two hide out in a fishing village. It is autumn. Ron and Dina discover that they know nothing about each another. They are strangers who can't so much as look into each other's eyes much less tell each other the truth.
- The young man fell from the sky. Communication relay burns. Flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. Become part of another story. That of the legend of the prince. In the hope of a love, hiding behind the hollow in a tree. Nothing magic is improbable. What happened yesterday, may happen again tomorrow.
- An elderly physicist recalls the commissioning at the turn of the 21st century of the most complex machine ever built by man: a particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Universe.
- Hawa Kay Naam (For a place under the Heavens) is Sabiha's personal journey through the Islamization of Pakistan. From her own perspective, she depicts the transformation of the Pakistani from a vibrant, liberal society into a more conservative, religious-oriented one. Sabiha interviews five women, in search of answers regarding the issue of this growing religiosity. Why are more and more women taking to the hijab when there is no state directive to do so? What is the true nature of this creeping Islamization? What are the liberal forces doing?
- With their mountains, hills and meadows, the landscapes of the Caucasus valleys are open books. The locals like to listen and talk. They read and act out poems, celebrating love and nature. Yet all this harmony, all this hope in the future, is broken by the sudden irruption of the present. A tale stamped by a 'mise en scene' that would also have pleased Straub and Paradjanov.