Gelsomina’s family works according to some special rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, is head of the family and her three younger sisters must obey her: sleep when she tells them to and work under her watchful eye. But the world, the outside, mustn’t know anything about their rules, and must be kept away from them. They must learn to disguise themselves.

Hirayama trivs med sitt liv som toalettstädare i Tokyo. Han har strikta vardagsrutiner som han förgyller med ett passionerat intresse för musik och litteratur. Men hans välordnade tillvaro skakas plötsligt om, och sakta men säkert avslöjas hans förflutna.

I slutet av 1800-talet skickas den unge danske prästen Lucas till en isolerad, avlägsen del av Island för att bygga en kyrka och fotografera de delar av befolkningen som han möter på sin väg. Men ju längre in i det obarmhärtiga och karga isländska landskapet han kommer i sällskap med sin vägvisare, desto mer förlorar han känslan för sin egen verklighet, sitt uppdrag och sina moraliska plikter. När han kommer fram till den lilla bebyggelsen där han ska bo hos den danske handlaren och hans två döttrar så sätts Lucas tro och kyskhet på allvarliga prov.

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

In the absence of any physical connection, this short explores alternative forms of contact among neighbors by making use of an old 16mm camera, a zoom lens, and a few meters of expired film.

Året är 1962. En fysikkongress i Alperna. En iransk gäst. En mystisk pianist. En bisarr molnformation på himlen och ett dånande mysterium under berget.

At the end of the 90s, Granada is in the middle of a cultural boom. Los Planetas, the cult Spanish rock band, is about to break up. Mario, a young music-loving student, is the privileged witness of this imminent break-up. Plunged into the heart of their tensions, he will play a role in the mythical history of this group.

Erich „Rickerl“ Bohacek is a likeable loser who on the one hand tries to build up a music career and on the other still wants to be a good father for his little son.

Donya är en emotionellt distanserad före detta tolk åt USA:s armé i Afghanistan som nu lever ett inrutat liv i Fremont, Kalifornien. Förslöat jobbar hon på en fabrik för kinesiska lyckokakor och plågas av minnen från det talibanstyrda hemlandet. När Donya inser att livet rinner henne ur händerna, bestämmer hon sig för att skicka ut ett kärlekssökande meddelande i en av lyckokakorna.

Valto och Reino ger sig av med bilen. De plockar upp Tatjana och Klaudia efter vägen. Resan går genom ett Finland som inte påverkats av Nokia eller EU utan förblivit urfinskt. Som vanligt levererar Kaurismäki en film utan onödig dialog.

A brainwashed girl is convinced by her authoritarian mother that her dead father will resurrect if they prove their love for him. Until he begins to rot.

A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set.

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.

A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara’s wedding to a devoted follower looms, she must decide whether or not to trust the steely matriarch of their community, Hope, with her heart and life at stake.

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.

After losing his mother at the age of 14, Kōsuke spent his depressed adolescence hiding his gay identity in a rural town. Now working as a fashion magazine editor, he spends his free time with his close friends. One day, he meets Ryūta, a personal trainer who works in part to support his aging mother.

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

Vi befinner oss I dagens Sarajevo där 40-åriga Asja söker efter kärleken. På en speed-dating träff möter hon Zoran, en jämnårig banktjänsteman. Under kriget befann de sig på motsatta sidor, och frågan är om det verkligen är kärlek han är ute efter.