En pleine Turquie dictatoriale, cinq détenus obtiennent une permission exceptionnelle de huit jours. Ils regagnent leurs familles respectives avec l'espoir de reprendre le cours de leur vie, mais constatent avec amertume que la liberté est relative dans ce pays où l'armée persécute les Kurdes et où la population maintient des traditions patriarcales d'un autre âge.
La vie de Steffi, 16 ans, est tout simplement parfaite : elle est jeune, elle vient d'obtenir son diplôme et s'apprête à partir en voyage scolaire avec son copain dans la ville de ses rêves, Paris. Lors d’un bilan médical de routine, les médecins décèlent un cancer incurable : elle n’a plus qu’un an à vivre. Alors que le monde s’écroule autour d’elle et que ses parents bouleversés tentent de la surprotéger, Steffi s’enfuit avec un inconnu, Steve, cascadeur dans un cirque. Ensemble, à bord de la voiture volée à son père, ils partent à l’aventure, bien décidés à réaliser coûte que coûte le rêve de Steffi.
Apres la guerre, a Bucarest, un jeune poete roumain arrete pour avoir ecrit un article denoncant les crimes stalinien, va sauver sa vie en acceptant de devenir un otage du regime.
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.
A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last remaining members of his B-17 bomber crew with the help of a beautiful accomplice.
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.
After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.
Jean, 35 ans, trouve par hasard une photo dans un photomaton. Ce qui l’amène à faire des rencontres insolites et l’entraîne dans d’étranges relations amoureuses… Du lac aux montagnes, cette œuvre lyrique raconte le voyage intérieur d’un homme revisitant sa mémoire.
Brings together the existential ponderings of the people around us who most deserve to be listened to, those who have lived the longest. We travel the world hearing memories of love and loss, of joy and hardship.
Can a región of 22 million people become water sustainable? Mexico City was not built near water, but in the middle of a lake. To supply it with fresh water, it is necessary to bring it from other states. In addition, once sewage water leaves the city, it ends up in the state of Hidalgo to be used in agriculture. This is an environmental case study of the Valley of Mexico and its struggles to save itself as the population grows.
Swiss provincial politics can be a minefield...