Da dagdrømmeren Ishaan bliver sendt på kostskole, forsøger en utraditionel billedkunstlærer at hjælpe den fantasifulde elev med at realisere sig selv.
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
Follows a woman as she becomes fully awake.
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.
Efter at have stjålet en bil og impuls-dræbt en motorcykelbetjent, er Michael eftersøgt at politiet. Med sin amerikanske kæreste planlægger han at flygte til Italien, mens nettet strammes omkring ham.
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
Den strenge og principfaste rektor på Saint Nicholas Church School, Søster Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), har meget svært ved at acceptere sognets radikale men meget populære præst Fader Flynn (Hoffman). Da hun får at vide, at præsten giver én speciel dreng ekstra opmærksomhed, er hun overbevist om at hun er på sporet af en mørk hemmelighed, men da der mangler beviser står kun tvivlen tilbage...
De to erfarne karriereofficerer, uden så meget gang i karrieren, Buddusky (Nicholson) og Mulhall (Otis Young), får til opgave at føre en ung sømand, Meadows (Randy Quaid), fra flådebasen i Virginia til et fængsel i New Hampshire, hvor han skal tilbringe otte år for en mindre forseelse. Buddusky og Mulhall begynder at synes helt godt om Meadows og beslutter sig for at give ham nogle uforglemmelige oplevelser på deres rejse mod nord. Deres udskejelser begynder i Washington, hvor de lige nøjagtig undgår et enormt barslagsmål, hvorefter de drikker deres hjerner ud på hotellet. I New York kommer de i klammeri med nogle soldater, og i Boston tager Buddusky Meadows med på et bordel, så han kan blive en rigtig mand. Til sidst skal Buddusky og Mulhall, meget mod deres vilje, aflevere Meadows, og da indser de, at de er ligeså meget fanger i deres verden, som Meadows er i sin.
James Miller er en britisk forfatter, som netop har udgivet en bog om kopier i kunstverden. Elle (Juliette Binoche) er fra Frankrig og indehaver af et kunstgalleri. I en lille by i Toscana mødes de to til en konference, men Elle er nødt til at gå lidt tidligt. Hun får dog efterladt sit nummer hos James, før hun må af sted. James ringer Elle op den dagen efter, og de aftaler at rejse sammen til Luciagno på det, der kunne se ud til at være en date. Men hvor fremmede er de for hinanden?
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.
Irske Joseph Donelly udvandrer til Amerika sammen med den iltre godsejerdatter Shannon Christie. Joseph er vant til trange kår, modsat Shannon, som bestemt ikke nyder sit nye, barske liv. De to unge immigranter er forskellige som ild og vand, men langsomt begynder kærligheden alligevel at spire.
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.
Meget barsk og trøstesløs skildring af en gruppe junkier der imellem fix udfører en række røverier og en masse drab. Woods og Griffith er mageløst gode som parret der lokker to unge tabere i fordærv. En film der ikke lægger fingrene imellem, men som samtidig også har sine lyse øjeblikke. Absolut hård kost, så man skal lige galvanisere sine følere inden man ser denne film.
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.