Marlo believes God has told her to win the Miss Teen Indiana Pageant. Her older sister Rose is skeptical, but she's been drinking a lot lately, and the word of God is a mystery to her.
Philippe, about thirty, discovers that he is becoming bald. For this backward adolescent musician, the loss of his hair is a real disaster. When he asks his dermatologist how much time he has left, this one tells him that only his father detains the answer to this question.
A young man confesses his sexual past to an unseen phone sex operator. He reflects on his sexual identity as we follow him on a solitary excursion to a beach.
Fairytale of London Town
Stranded in a vast arid desert, two resentful lovers are forced to endure one another as they await their rescue.
A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to protect her. She uncovers an unlikely relationship between those who raised her, a globe-trotting photojournalist and Athanasia. Athanasia, a girl with no right in life. A choice of nature, but not of her community. Angela finds her father and discovers her mother.
The girl, born into a wealthy family, seemingly has everything but is constantly surrounded by an overwhelming sense of boredom, prompting her to chase after excitement incessantly. Upon receiving an invitation from a mysterious man, she gambles everything in a billiards match, only to discover beneath the bandages wrapped around the man's wounds a sorrow she had never imagined. The gentle oxygen of her comfort zone feels suffocating, and perhaps only by journeying together can one catch a glimpse of the dazzling deep space beyond the atmosphere.
Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…
Schoolboy Hinata has a big crush on his classmate Shigure, but is too shy to tell her. On the day Shigure is leaving, Hinata flies off on the wings of a bird chasing after her to tell how he feels!
A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.
Vocación de Martirio
Two Japanese boys go on a real-life Manga adventure when they discover what a single night in Shinjuku holds for unwary lovers. It’s the night of Gacchan’s birthday and boyfriend Takayuki is waiting at home to celebrate. But Gacchan has not only forgotten about his party, he’s been out playing around. Furious, Takayuki leaves, threatening not to return until he has indulged in some adultery of his own. Remade by the writer as 浮気なぼくら [Naughty Boys] (2002)
Bert, Ernie, and friends put on a new play and some of your favorite words are the stars.
A man's dying wish is for the people in his life to participate in a 450-mile charity bicycle ride through Northern California.
A young girl worries she shouldn’t have left her mother with a handsome drifter after wandering off with his unreliable daughter.
Alex is a broke college student whose family is under constant financial strain due to his late mother's medical bills. So, when his friend tells him about a group of guys with a supply of ecstasy, Alex decides to steal it in hopes to sell it all in a huge one-time deal.
Residents of a flat share discuss the purchase of a new vacuum cleaner. A genuine film about group dynamics, daily living together and democracy, in which banality, poetry and humour are mixed.
Reared by an abusive, pill-popping mother and an absentee playboy father, six-year-old Valentina must fend for herself. She does what she can to craft the illusion of normalcy: makes herself lunches that look just like the ones her classmates tote, dresses and grooms herself expertly, and lies to cover up for her mother Anita's erratic behavior.
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
A rumor spreads through a small desert town that a girl has been raped. A respected veteran tries to stop the girl's cousin, a soldier in vacation, from taking the law into his own hands.