Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Andrei Tarkovskys mesterværk Vandringsmanden fra 1979 er en af Ruslands allerstørste science fiction-film. Den er blevet kaldt Tarkovskijs mest pessimistiske vision af verden, men det er også hans måske mest tilgængelige film, åben for allehånde fortolkninger. Løst baseret på en roman af forfatterne Arkady og Boris Strugatsky er det en filosofisk fabel om en videnskabsmand og forfatter, der følger en såkaldt stalker ind i det forbudte territorium kaldet Zonen, som staten har afspærret, og hvor rygtet vil vide, at mennesker kan få deres inderste ønsker opfyldt. Turen gennem militære kontrolposter og obskure farer bliver en rejse ind i en anden verden, hvor Tarkovsky lader virkeligheden vige for abstrakte billeder og livsanskuelser med en overrumplende originalitet.

Det episke og ærefrygtindgydende storværk Andrei Rublev med den danske titel Den yderste dom er Andrei Tarkovskijs anden spillefilm. Den tre timer lange film var klar til premiere i 1966, men grundet problemer med den russiske censur fik den først officiel premiere i 1969 i begrænset distribution. Værkets samlende karakter er den russiske ikonmaler Andrei Rublev. Filmen kredser om Rublevs såvel fysiske som mentale rejse gennem middelalderens Rusland. Den gennemgribende tematik i filmen er mennesket i relation til og som konsekvens af dets omverden - en tematik, der genfindes i flere af Tarkovskijs senere film.

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Solaris er et filosofisk foruroligende portræt af menneskets destruktive interaktion med omverdenen. Filmen er en visuel tour de force, der tematisk kredser om kærlighed, bevidsthed, personlig identitet, erindring og ikke mindst forsoning og nostalgi. En fremmed entitet, selvmordstraumer og store filosofiske spørgsmål skaber en foruroligende ubalance, der i samspil med tempoet og filmens lange spilletid tvinger seeren næsten fysisk ind i karakterernes ulidelige mentale trængsler.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.

Rainer Werner Fassbinders film om tre kvinders samliv og forhold er efter sigende modelleret efter den klassiske Hollywood produktion The Women, som imidlertid i sammenligning forekommer temmelig konventionel. Fassbinder fortæller sin historie næsten udelukkende fra soveværelset hos den succesrige designer Petra (Margit Carstensen), hvor hun hundser med sin sekretær (Irm Hermann), og tiltrækkes af den unge Karin (Hanna Schygulla).

Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.