An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Seicento anni fa "Brasile" era solo il nome di un albero e il territorio su cui oggi sorge Rio era popolato dagli indios Tupinambas. Un uomo tra loro, profondamente innamorato, venne prescelto dal destino e dagli dei per condurre il suo popolo "alle terre libere dal male". Dal tramonto del 1500 fino al 2096, passando dalla guerra tra francesi e portoghesi, dai campi di cotone degli schiavi, dalla dittatura militare del '68 fino alla guerra per l'acqua del prossimo futuro, quell'uomo ha obbedito alla sua missione di combattente contro l'avanzata inarrestabile del buio e dell'odio, armato solo dell'amore per Janaìna e della vocazione a non arrendersi mai.
A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept.
In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.
Ola parte per l'Irlanda per riportare il corpo di suo padre in Polonia dopo la sua morte in un incidente in cantiere. Ma non importa suo padre, Ola vuole sapere se ha risparmiato soldi per l'auto che le aveva promesso. Affrontando la burocrazia straniera a modo suo, Ola conoscerà suo padre.
A dog, Popi, and a monkey named Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home. But one day it becomes clear that he’s not going to be coming home anymore. From that day their mutual lives begin. While he is actually smarter and stronger than his simian companion, Popi capitulates to every one of Huhuu’s whims in a show of obedience and subservience. Huhuu meanwhile becomes a symbol of licentiousness and tomfoolery. The film is based on the short story "Popi and Huhuu" by Estonian author Friedebert Tuglas.
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
A Praga, durante l'occupazione, viene ucciso in un attentato Heydrich, proconsole di Hitler in Cecoslovacchia. L'uccisore è un dottore che combatte per la Resistenza, ma i suoi capi per salvarlo (e per salvare gli ostaggi in mano ai nazisti) fanno convergere i sospetti su un collaborazionista.
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Margit and her older sister Katla flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter with Johan and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery.
Nella grande città si lotta per la sopravvivenza e una rosa rossa unisce tre storie di amori impossibili. L’amore fra una ragazza irraggiungibile e un ragazzo. L’amore fra due donne. L’amore di un’intera città per le sue star di Bollywood.
A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
Pob and Dew are friends who study at the same school but slowly realize, that there might be something more than friendship between them. Unfortunately, they live in an era which isn't open to homosexuals and thus the two get separated only to meet 23 years later.
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young Alexander, in whom she alone sees great talent. She devotes much energy and attention preparing him for the next stage exam to prove she was right. Soon Anna devotes more time to him than to Jonas, bringing the two boys into rivalry. At the same time her marriage is collapsing, she withdraws increasingly from her own family and starts an affair with her colleague Christian, who is encouraging her to join a quartet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts. With Alexander now her vehicle, she drives him ever onwards and upwards. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn...
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
A refugee falling in love. "Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in Sweden and a mysterious local woman living on its border.
Darryl Stephens plays Pete Logsdon-just a guy in Philadelphia who happens to have a history of getting involved with married men. His father, played by veteran Richard Lawson and his soon-to-be step mom, Leslie Zemeckis, are on him to find someone who's actually available and to settle down. Instead, he finds a man named Jack who is fifteen years into a perfect marriage with two beautiful children and an enviable wife.
Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her upcoming wedding. Returning home for the festivities, Adam must confront unresolved feelings while trying to convince himself and everyone else that he is truly happy for her.