Filmen er en fortælling om Bella Baxter, en ung kvinde, der genoplives af den geniale og uortodokse videnskabsmand dr. Godwin Baxter. Den videbegærlige Bella hungrer efter at opleve verden, så hun stikker af med Duncan Wedderburn, en slikket og amoralsk advokat, på et hæsblæsende eventyr over flere kontinenter. Befriet for datidens moraliserende bånd bliver Bellas liv en stræben efter lighed og frigørelse.

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."

Ingen på forberedelsesskolen Barton Academy kan lide professor Paul Hunham. Han har ingen familie og ingen andre steder at tage hen i julen 1970, så han bliver på skolen for at holde øje med de elever, som ikke har mulighed for rejse hjem. Der går dog ikke mange dage før, der kun er en elev tilbage. Den utilpassede Angus, som godt nok er en dygtig elev, men hvis dårlige opførsel ofte er tæt på at få ham bortvist. Sammen med skolens køkkenchef Mary, hvis søn kort forinden er blevet dræbt i Vietnam, tilbringer den umage trio en meget begivenhedsrig jul sammen i New England imens sneen vælter ned.

Enea chases after the myth he bears in his name; he does so to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does so together with Valentino, a newly baptized aviator. The two, in addition to dealing and partying, share youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of rules, on the other side of morality, there is a sea full of humanity and symbols to be discovered. Enea and Valentino will fly over it to the furthest extremes. However, drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story about something else: a melancholy father, a brother fighting at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a glass world.

"The Zone of Interest" er nok en af de mest idylliske film, du nogensinde kommer til at se om Holocaust. Kommandanten for Auschwitz Rudolf Höss og hans hustru Hedwig lever et drømmeliv med legende børn og jødiske tjenere i deres store hus med en imponerende smuk have. De har umiddelbart ingen bekymringer over de masseudryddelser og uhyrligheder, der sker lige på den anden side af muren. Her skimtes toppen af KZ lejren med trøstesløse bygninger, pigtråd og buldren fra krematorier, der skyder kulsort røg op. Storspil af Christian Friedel (”Det hvide bånd”) og Sandra Hüller (”Min far Toni Erdmann”).

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father's old friends, who risk everything to save him.

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Simon, a well-known French filmmaker, starts shooting his next film. A story about workers fighting to protect their factory from being relocated. But nothing goes as planned... His producer Viviane wants to rewrite the ending and is threatening to cut the budget; his own crew goes on strike; his personal life is in shambles; and to make things worse, his lead actor Alain is an egocentric jerk. Joseph, an extra who wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct the making of and shoot the behind-the-scenes. He takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew, capturing all this mess... What follows is proof that the making of can sometimes be far better than the film itself!

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

In Louisville, Kentucky, hairdresser Sharon Stevens rallies the masses to help widowed father Ed Schmitt save his critically ill 5 year old daughter Michelle after their community is hit by a major snowstorm from the 1994 North American cold wave.

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

Two young people's bond leads to marital infidelity and ultimately crime. Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.

Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

Justine Triets Guldpalmevinder fra Cannes fortæller om forfatteren Sandra Voyter, hvis mand omkommer efter et fald fra anden sal i parrets svejtserhytte. Da Sandra mistænkes for at have myrdet sin mand, bevæger vi os over i et intenst retssalsdrama, der trækker os både i den ene og den anden retning, for hvem ved: Måske har Sandra vitterligt begået et mord? Sandra Hüllers tvetydige portræt af Sandra gør det ikke nemt for publikum, og undervejs kommer selv hendes unge søn i tvivl. Og imens det moderne parforhold pilles fra hinanden i retssalen, smider anklagemyndigheden trumf på ved at udsøge sig passager i forfatterens bøger, som kan understøtte anklagen.

I 1972 styrter et fly fra Uruguay ned i en fjerntliggende del af Andesbjergene, og de overlevende bliver hinandens bedste håb.

En romanforfatter, der er træt af, at etablissementet drager fordel af "Sort" underholdning, bruger et pennenavn til at skrive en bog, der driver ham ind i hjertet af hykleri og det vanvid, han hævder at foragte.

Dette er fortællingen om et møde mellem Lazzaro, en ung bonde så god af sig, at han ofte forveksles med en enfoldig, og Tancredi, en ung adelsmand forbandet af en livlig fantasi. Livet i deres lille isolerede landsby domineres af den forfærdelige Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, dronningen af cigaretter. En ubrydeligt bånd bliver forseglet, da Tancredi spørger Lazzaro om at hjælpe ham med at orkestrere sin egen kidnapning. Denne mærkelige og usandsynlige alliance er en åbenbaring for Lazzaro…