Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Daniel Blake har arbejdet som snedker i Newcastle det meste af sit 59-årige liv. For første gang nogensinde har han brug for hjælp fra staten efter at være blevet arbejdsløs på grund af sygdom. Daniel møder Katie, der er enlig mor til børnene Daisy og Dylan. Katies eneste mulighed for at komme ud af et værelse på et hostel for hjemløse i London er at takke ja til en smadret lejlighed i en fremmed by næsten 500 km væk. Daniel og Katie befinder sig i ingenmandsland, fanget i et velfærdsbureaukrati uden fleksibilitet eller medmenneskelighed. Deres venskab giver dem mod og styrke til at gå imod et sygt system.

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.

One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.

Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

Camille, a young idealistic photojournalist, goes to the Central African Republic to cover the civil war that is brewing up. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

The incomparable Bruce Springsteen performs his critically acclaimed latest album and muses on life, rock, and the American dream, in this intimate and personal concert film co-directed by Thom Zimny and Springsteen himself.

Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be?"

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

I en tid med stor social uro og fattigdom vinder den unge arbejderklassekvinde Maria et kamera i et lotteri. Maria er gift med den charmerende Sigge, men hverdagen er hård, for Sigge har hang til alkohol og kvinder og med en børneflok på 7 og for få penge, er det ikke nemt at få det til at løbe rundt. Kameraet giver Maria mulighed for et pusterum i hverdagen, og gennem kameralinsen begynder hun at se verden med nye øjne. Men hendes nyerhvervede klarsyn bliver hurtigt en trussel for Sigge - men samtidig bringer det også den charmerende fotograf Pedersen ind i hendes liv.

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.

Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson) er gift med en psykiater, som har en del underlige patienter bl.a. en indsat på en højsikkerheds-anstalt, der ligger i udkanten af London. Stella føler sig draget af denne mandlige patient, som er blevet kendt skyldig i et bestialsk mord på sin kone, og hendes tiltrækning af manden vokser, da han placeres i et job som inspektør for anstaltens konservatorium, en bygning der ligger kun få skridt fra hendes hjem.

Güven, a taxi driver is desperately in love with Meral, but he’s too shy to open up to her. One day he picks up a customer, gets accused of a crime he didn’t commit and his world is turned upside down.