A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.

A man is downtown and urgently needs to pee, but a vindictive voice on the phone holds the combination to his pants in this dark comedy of desperation.

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in a heated argument about plague ordinances and entry regulations.

In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were swept away by a virus that would cause the worst pandemic in history: the Spanish flu.

Severely battered from the Beirut Port Explosion on August 4th, Minerva passed away eight days later. Her son Joseph, while still grieving for his loss, sunk into a long and absurd bureaucratic path through the inept system that disowned his mother as a victim of the blast. Minerva is gone. The explosion has snatched her soul, and the city walls have not yet recognized her as a martyr. There is no poster of her smiling face among those of the victims. Their faces are memories that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Perhaps her son, devastated by her passing, seeks to etch her image into the city's memory. Perhaps he is seeking some confession to the crime. This is a place that casts out its children, whether dead or alive.

A concerned citizen encounters a political writing on a public bus stop and decides to call city services. When they fail to respond he decides to take the law into his own hands.

The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)

Reverse Cowgirl. Rusty Trombone. The Wheelbarrow. Go inside the government office responsible for creating sexual positions as one woman pitches the position she hopes will take the world by storm.

In a not-so-distant future, Adeel must comply with the machines to survive.

Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds beautifully simple answer.

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution.

In a dystopian reality plagued by corruption, a rebellious government employee finds an alternate way to change the system: kill the corrupt.

ארבעה סיפורים עצמאיים שהתחילו בסין המודרנית על מעשי אלימות אקראיים.

Two brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven't paid the rent. The orphans pack up their few possessions and go out to the country, where the family owns a small plot of land. The children set up camp, knowing they have to fend for themselves. But this solution is insecure, too: they are told, in no uncertain terms, that all plots will shortly pass to the state unless at least the foundations of a house have been laid. The threesome get down to work, making night-time visits to neighboring sites to 'borrow' tools and materials, then building by day. But no sooner are the foundation walls complete than an unsympathetic policeman ad...

The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.

אלפרד "פרד" ג'ונס הוא מדען בריטי, שמואס באשתו הקרייריסטית ובבוס המציק שלו. כשפונה אליו שייח כריזמטי המבקש להעזר במומחיותו, חייו משנים כיוון. השייח מציע לו לצאת למבצע שאפתני- הכנסת דגי סלמון לנהרות בתימן, ומבטיח לו שחייו הולכים להשתנות, ואולי גם חיי העולם כולו. בנוסף, מתחיל פרד להתאהב בהארייט, היועצת של השייח. ככל שפרד מתמסר אל האתגר שמעמיד בפניו השייח, הוא משיל מעליו את הארשת הרשמית, ומתמסר למסע של גילוי עצמי ושל התאהבות מאוחרת.

רומניה, הימים האחרונים לקראת נפילת הקומוניזם. אוטיליה וגביטה הן שותפות לחדר במעונות הסטודנטים, והחיים שלהן נראים מושלמים. המבחנים מתקרבים, יש להן חברות וגם אהבות לא חסר.  אבל גביטה נכנסת להריון ורוצה לעבור הפלה - הבעיה היא, שהפלות אינן חוקיות. כחברה טובה ומסורה, אוטיליה מחליטה לעזור לה. אף אחת מהן לא מוכנה למחיר שיהיה עליהן לשלם.*זוכה פרס דקל הזהב פסטיבל קאן 2007*זוכה פרס איגוד המבקרים הבינלאומי פסטיבל קאן 2007

הבמאי הנחשב מייקל מור בודק את מערכת הבריאות של ארה"ב, בכך שהוא ממשיך במופע של אדם אחד במטרה לגלות את האמת. מור, שופך אור על הבעיות שקיימות במערכת הבריאות של ערים ומדינות בארה"ב ומגלה שלמרות היותה המעצמה הגדולה בעולם, יש לה לא מעט בעיות בכל מה שקשור בקבלת טיפול הולם לחולה, ציוד לא תקין ועוד.