Livet blandt unge i en lille by i Texas i 50'erne drejer sig om kærlighed, om de første erotiske erfaringer, om at blive voksen - alt sammen med byens café, biografteater og pool-salon som samlingssted. Sonny og Duane er bedste venner og med på gymnasiets fodboldhold. Duane kommer sammen med Jacy, klassens flotteste pige, men hendes mor vil hellere have, at hun finder sig en rig fyr, som kan få hende væk fra den døende lilleby. Sonny indleder en elskovsaffære med sin gymnastiklærers kone, alt i mens fjernsynet er ved at slå den lokale biograf ihjel, og Koreakrigen kræver sine ofre.

I en libanesisk landsby har kristne og muslimer levet i fred og fordragelighed i århundreder. Men på det seneste er omverdenens religiøse stridigheder begyndt at brede sig til landsbyens mænd. Nu går byens kvinder sammen på tværs af religiøse skel for at stoppe voldsspiralen og genoprette freden mellem deres mænd. Det kræver både list og personlige ofre.

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.

A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.

Jafar Panahi agerer selv taxichaufføren, der med sit kamera indbygget i instrumentbrættet dokumenterer sine finurlige, morsomme og ind i mellem stærkt bevægende møder med allehånde iranere. På raffineret vis - og med stor menneskevarme - tegnes et portræt af et moderne Iran, som ikke ligner noget, vi kender fra tv-reportagerne og ej heller noget, de lokale myndigheder billiger.

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

Roman kæmper for at frigøre sig fra sin voldelige fortid og får i fængslet chancen for rehabilitering i program, hvor han skal træne vilde heste. Her finder han sin egen “menneskelighed” igennem arbejdet med en vild og særlig stærk hest.

Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castellón at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.

Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't have the same idea. She sings in a political rock band, has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the wishes of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers all too well.

Lige fra åbningsbilledet, hvor Shirin ved højlys dag går ned af gaden med en strapon-dildo i hånden, helt til rulleteksterne begynder, er denne film morsom, upassende, men alligevel enormt oprigtig. Appropriate Behavior er en komedie om Shirin og hendes brud med kæresten Maxine. Mens hun kæmper for at få kontrol over sit liv, forsøger Shirin også at være en perfekt persisk datter, en politisk korrekt biseksuel og en hip ung Brooklynite.

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

The true story of a French teenager rising out of the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music. Regis is a culturally gifted boy who dreams of success for his rap band, but he must accept drug money for the sake of his project. Discovering Islam and love, he bears with the harsh loss and paybacks of delinquency, until he finds the strength to express himself through music and slam-poetry and ultimately becomes a major artist of the French music scene.

Huppert og Depardieu spiller fiktive versioner af sig selv, Isabelle og Gérard, som mødes i Death Valley i Californien. Deres søn tog sit eget liv seks måneder tidligere, men han efterlod en besked med et ønske om at hans forældre skulle mødes i ørkenen, hvor han vil vise sig for dem.

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...

Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.

I ugerne inden Los Angeles står i brand efter overfaldet på Rodney King i 1992, fortæller Kings historien om Millie Dunbar og hendes store plejefamilie. Millie prøver at holde sammen på familien i takt med at raceurolighederne stiger. Men det er umuligt at holde hadet ude.

Berke troede at hans sidste år i high school ville blive genialt. Han kom sammen med ”the girl of his dreams”, Allison, som han havde været varm på siden de gik med ble. Det virkede som et perfekt forhold, skolens ideelle par. Berke følte, at det for første gang i hans liv kørte for ham, men der tog han grueligt fejl. I Berke’s øjne var de Antonio og Kleopatra, Hepburn & Tracy, Romeo og Julie, men i Allison’s øjne var det simpelthen ovre..

Kultinstruktøren Abel Ferrara er tilbage i New York med et apokalyptisk kammerspil der foregår i en lejlighed på Lower East Side, natten inden verden gaar under. Her tilbringer et nybagt par (Willem Dafoe og debutanten Shanyn Leigh) deres sidste timer sammen med at følge tv-nyhederne, male, knalde og filosofere over tilværelsens nære ende. For hvad skulle man ellers lave? Og hvad betyder det hele egentlig, når man ved, at det er slut i morgen?