A new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.
After taking up with a charming cab driver, a wild and hedonistic teenage girl returns home to succeed her mother as a prayer woman.
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest. In The ARYANS Mo questions the completely wrong interpretation of "Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race.
A gay man loses his partner. We hear his deepest thoughts as he walks through the woods of Mohonk; this internal voice is punctuated by graphic glimpses of new grief, interruptive and savage. Gradually the man explores his feelings and the landscape together, almost unconsciously allowing nature to infiltrate his being. He finds a hill, a horizon, a viewpoint - no conclusion but perhaps possibility along with perspective.
A lone thief, Dex, seeks vengeance after he is left for dead in the woods by his partner; so he makes a deal with the Devil and goes on a mission to kill his partner and get his loot back.
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two women.
A lawyer defends a wealthy woman accused of murder. She claims it was self-defense. The lawyer is not sure.
A woman is assaulted on a train, later becoming a model for an artist.
Eiji is the mistress of Nozomi, the widow of the company president, and if she asks, he will even ignore his wife Reiko. Reiko, who senses that her husband is cheating on her, also rekindles her lewd relationship with her boyfriend from college. The couple, who were supposed to be enjoying their own love affair, are faced with an unexpected turn of events...
Gensaku Katori, a managing director at a certain bank, relentlessly criticizes the naked body of his secretary and mistress, Ayako Kimura. Young Ayako's body responds to the technique of this master, entrusting her limbs to her abnormal pleasure, arousing her greedy desire, and unfolding her shameful state. Ayako continues her current mistress relationship as Gensaku is divorcing his wife, Nenko, but she is frustrated that things are not progressing very well.
Yuko lost her husband in an accident. On that day, her sister-in-law Masako, who had come from her hometown, and they held a memorial service for her husband on the 49th day. Yuko, who broke up with her girlfriend Masako and was left alone, happened to meet her friend Yumiko from her school days on the street. The two had previously had a lesbian relationship...
Toshiko lives with an older man, Shozo. On her back was a tattoo of Hannya carved by Shozo. Her tattoo artist, Shozo, who inherited the blood of her masters, tattooed her in order to keep her in her hands. He is currently traveling to Europe because a foreigner asked him to tattoo him. Asako and Shinji, who live in the room next to Toshiko, are student lovers, but when Asako finds out that she's cheating on her, she goes to her girlfriend's Masao. After hearing about her situation, Toshiko puts Asako to sleep when he comes to retrieve her belongings and tattoos a dragon on her secret spot, but...
A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."
Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what's happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they've spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son's death. Tones vary, as do the locales. Most concern coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine, who in many ways is the exact opposite of Louise: she lives in a fashionable neighborhood, is cold to others, and has snobby friends, while Louise lives in a small town and is thoroughly unpretentious. Louise's apparent happiness -- and similarities to their mother -- gradually gets on Martine's nerves.