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- Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
- 1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.
- An engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.
- The story of Shell, a girl who lives with her father Pete in a remote gas station in the Scottish Highlands, in their struggle against the elements and the impossible love they feel during the last winter that she will be in that place.
- A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
- A group of young people grow up together in a small, rural community in the Cotswolds.
- Manuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come to Germany to be with Petra during her illness. They stay together in her old apartment. Another woman also occasionally lives there: Kim, a beautiful, enigmatic and aloof Asian. Petra's disease is of no interest to Manuel whereas Tarso visits Petra obsessively in the clinic. Sharing the same space with Tarso is hard for Manuel. Their previous relationship was based on 'visits only'. Manuel is overcome by a sense of emptiness. Meanwhile, Manuel develops an erotic desire for Kim, a trans woman, who helps him discover Petra's body.
- This story is set in "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman.
- The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
- Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
- 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
- Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars.
- Parts of a corpse have been found and a suspect, Plamen Goranov, brother of the murdered man, is detained. He denies any charges and for want of conclusive evidence, the investigation is about to be suspended. Then a new investigator is appointed, Alexandra Yakimova, who starts everything from scratch. In daytime she interrogates relatives, friends and colleagues of two brothers and at night she questions the suspect.She hasn't got much time left for her family. Solitude has been her own choice and she tries to make up it overburdening herself with more and more work. Loneliness is also eating up Plamen, the tough rogue, who starts cherishing his encounters with the investigator for the chance to talk to her. The film follows the course of the investigation trough the filter of its main subject: possible or impossible human communication.
- Three Muscovite women taxi-drivers laugh, swear and talk their way through everyday life after Perestroika - life's full of dreams and contradictions.
- An amateur female soccer team from Berlin goes on a nerve-wracking journey trying to carry out the first female soccer match in the history of Iran.
- Evridika, a neglected teenager, lives with her mother Sona in Alaverdi, a small Armenian town. While Sona, a conductor of a world famous choir, is often away, Evridika struggles with her blossoming sexuality, suicidal thoughts and the search for the father she has never known. Each day she drowns deeper inside herself and sees no reasons to live until she meets Pyotr, Sona's ex-lover. He will become the key to Evridika's new perception of the world.
- Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, iPod's, instruments?
- The documentary examines the lives of the residents of a small German village in the Schleswig-Holstein region, Wacken, through a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival.
- A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station.
- After more than thirty years of absence, three Korean women return with their German husbands to their old homeland - to a land that is no longer theirs.
- Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. COMRADES IN DREAMS brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night. In doing so, the film dives into a set of fascinating lives where stories from the everyday and from the silver screen frequently merge into something magical.
- Ida, adopted from Africa to Finland as a child, is now an unemployed seamstress approaching her 30s who still lives with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have her own life, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
- Television plays an important role in the life of the people of Havana. Despite there being only one program - the daily broadcast of the Telenovela is a most welcome distraction from the boring everyday life in the capital of Cuba. The movie watches enthusiastic and less enthusiastic viewers, and the almost holy people who are repairing the precious, mostly Russian devices.
- The shadow of an African immigrant in an abandoned house was mistaken for a ghost and the hilarious situations that ensued, creating havoc in a quaint Malay village.
- A roadtrip through rural France in search of the real life inhabitants of an imaginary town.
- In a time when Algeria has been consumed by warfare and strife for more than a decade, a man who longs to return to the peaceful streets of Rome takes his girlfriend on a desperate quest to procure the papers that will allow the pair to seek out a brighter future.
- In the macho world of Mariachi music, only very few women can hold their own. A snapshot of life, death and the things in between - seen from a bird's-eye perspective.
- Ben is in his early 20s and lives with Karl, his overweight, unemployed father, in a prefabricated housing estate in Halle. Ben's dream is to one day travel the world and write about it.
- A movie about the vital power of music and a unique insight into Chinese history.
- A documentary which follows a German-Cuban couple from the spontaneous wedding in Havanna to the birth of there first child.
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