Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

In her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

En dokumentarfilm om den britiske rapper Maya Arulpragasam, bedre kendt under scenenavnet M.I.A. Hendes rødder i det borgerkrigshærgede Sri Lanka, sin families forbindelser til en tamilsk oprørsgruppe og hendes oplevelser som immigrant i England har alt sammen formet M.I.A.s behov for at udtrykke sig og blande sig i alt det, folk ikke ønsker at høre om.

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

Gertrud er gift med politikeren Gustav og har et forhold til den unge musiker Erland. Før ægteskabet havde hun et forhold til digteren Gabriel. Alle tre er mænd for hvem arbejdet har højeste prioritet, mens det for hende er kærligheden. Derfor bryder hun med dem alle og vælger selvstændigheden. Mange år senere ser den gamle Gertrud sammen med vennen Axel tilbage på sit liv.

Documentary about Babak Bayat (Persian: بابک بیات)(13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006). Babak Bayat was an Iranian songwriter and film score composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award in the field of the soundtrack at the Fajr Film Festival and received this award twice in 1991 and 1997.

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in the company of a well-known movie star

Adapted from the Andersen tale and played out in musical comedy mode, The Ugly Duckling is set in a farmyard where roosters, hens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine day, a rooster discovers a giant egg behind the farmyard kingdom fence, and discreetly slips it into the clutch laid by his partner... Very soon, a cygnet emerges, but as he in no way resembles any of them he is immediately stigmatized by the whole farmyard, enduring humiliations and suspicion on the part of his feathered companions. But in the end he becomes a magnificent white swan.

The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.

Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.

A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.

Because of his wavering health, Monsieur Henri can no longer live alone in his Paris appartment. Particularly grumpy, he ends up nonetheless accepting his son Paul's suggestion that he let one of his rooms out to a young female student. Far from falling for her charms, Henri uses her to orchestrate utter family chaos...

Den 12-årige Josh ønsker under en karneval, at han var voksen. Morgenen efter vågner han op - som voksen! Kort efter får han job på en legetøjsfabrik, hvor han hurtigt får succes pga. sine evner til at forudsige, hvad børn kan lide at lege med. Men selv hans smukke kollega Susan kan ikke afhjælpe Josh's søgen tilbage til den ukomplicerede barndom.

Den franske “Mine eftermiddage med Margueritte” føles som en varm, doven sommerdag, hvor man ikke orker at tænke sine tanker helt til ende, men bare daser videre halvbagt i liggestolen. Man hygger sig på fortrinlig vis, er mere eller mindre underholdt og faktisk også lidt sulten undervejs. For det er trods alt en fransk film, og så skal der selvfølgelig både fortæres lækre, smurte baguettes og indtages en vis mængde trampede druer for at give den rigtige stemning. Og dét kan Gérard Depardieu om nogen.

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.

En cyklist bliver ramt af en jeep på en mørk og snefyldt vej i det nordlige Italien. Bilen kører videre, og efterlader manden hårdt såret i vejkanten. Ulykken binder den rige familie Bernischi og den konkurstruede familie Rovelli uløseligt sammen - men hvorfor? 'Human Capital' skildrer med sort humor begivenhederne, der leder op til den tragiske ulykke. Kærlighed, klasseforskelle og grådige ambitioner udforskes i den skæbnesvangre fortælling, der udspiller sig mens den økonomiske krise er på sit højeste i Italien.

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.