Tillfälligheter för samman tre olika historier i staden Memphis. Ett japanskt par som är besatta av amerikanskt 50-tal har rest dit, eftersom den manliga halvan av paret försöker efterlikna rockartisten Carl Perkins. En kvinna på väg hem till Italien med sin makes likkista tvingas mellanlanda i staden och några lokalbor rånar en spritbutik.

In a vignette called "Strange to meet you," Roberto sits at a small table in a coffee bar. Five cups of coffee and two ashtrays are in front of him; he drinks and smokes. Steven joins him. They start a conversation about cigarettes and coffee. Steven likes to drink coffee before he sleeps, so he can dream faster. The conversation jumps around. "You know my mother?" asks Roberto. Steven describes coffee Popsicles. They switch seats; then switch back. Steven has to leave for a dental appointment he's not looking forward to. Roberto makes a startling offer, inspired no doubt by the coffee and cigarettes.

DJ Zack och hallicken Jack hamnar i fängelse eftersom de är för slöa för att försöka undvika att bli haffade för brott de inte begått... De får dela cell med den excentriske optimisten Roberto, vars begränsade kunskaper i det engelska språket är både underhållande och irriterande. Desto mer användbart är det faktum att Roberto känner till en rymningsväg. Tredje delen i en trilogi om amerikansk pop/trashkultur sett genom en utomståendes ögon.

Ett antal berättelser om människor som på olika sätt diskuterar sina liv över kaffe och cigarretter. Detta är en film som bygger på ett antal korta berättelser filmade vid olika tillfällen. Det börjar med "Coffee and Cigarettes I" (1986), med bl a Roberto Benigni. "Coffee and Cigarettes II: Memphis Version" (1989), här kallad "Twins". Med bl a Steve Buscemi. "Coffee and Cigarettes III: Somewhere in California". Vann Guldpalmen för kortfilm i Cannes 1993, med Tom Waits och Iggy Pop. Resten är en mix av nyinspelat material med tanke på att göra en långfilm.

När Alyce kommer på sin pojkvän med att vara otrogen får hon sällskap av väninnan Carrol för en rejäl återstudsning. Med ecstasy och alkohol i blodet tappar Alyce besinningen och gör sig skyldig till Carrols död, vilket utlöser en våg av skuldkänslor som tacklas med ett konstant drogrus. På vilsefärd i dekadensens dimma leds hon djupare och djupare ner i kaninhålet.

Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations.

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Cynthia förhörs av polisen Woods om mordet på James, gift med Cynthias väninna Joyce. Cynthia minns spänningarna mellan Joyce och James på deras bröllopsfest och hur Joyce förvirrad berättade om mordet på James efter mordkvällen på tivolit. Men var det verkligen Joyce som mördade honom?

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.

The first Russian emo-movie, Closed Spaces is a story about the newest generation of Russians. Having grown up in Russia's crazy 1990s, an era filled with constant and drastic change, these teenagers have no solid ground beneath their feet. They are trapped in a strange world in which their money-obsessed parents lead senseless lives and even kill each other. Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her.

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.

En sårad kvinna kastar loss från tillvaron för att söka ensamheten i den kärva irländska naturen. Där får hon kontakt med gårdsägaren Martin, som erbjuder henne arbete i utbyte mot mat. Båda har valt isolering, men hur länge kan de förtränga behovet av närhet? En vacker regidebut som med små medel närmar sig stora och allmänmänskliga frågor.

A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help because she says she was innocent of the crime she was convicted for. After being released from prison, Thérèse murders the actual perpetrator of the crime and comes to seek sanctuary in the convent.

After a chaotic heist, Lupin and Jigen find themselves becoming caretakers of a baby boy, while a young sky pirate called Yutika is after their loot. Yutika is an inhabitant of the city-state of Shahalta, which has recently fallen to a shady minister. Soon, Lupin's gang and Yutika join forces to uncover one of Shahalta's greatest treasures, facing off against both Shahaltan authorities and Zenigata.

In 1993, youngster Loris Riccardi is the art director of a night club destined to become the most transgressive in Italy: Cocoricò. He conceives the concept of night-club-theatre transforming the dance floor into a place of provocation.

Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.

33 regissörer fick i uppdrag av filmfestivalen i Cannes att göra en 3 minuters kortfilm om sin syn på film, detta för att fira att festivalen fyller 60 år.

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.