I marts 2018, under Afghanistan-krigen, overfalder Taleban den amerikanske hærsergent John Kinley og hans enhed med et lastbilbombeangreb. Kinley møder Ahmed Abdullah, en tidligere Taleban-medlem, der hjælper ham med at overleve og får hans respekt. De to bliver angrebet af Taleban igen, men undslipper og når tilbage til basen. Kinley ønsker at redde Ahmed, der er blevet eftersøgt af Taleban, og får hjælp fra oberst Vokes til at skaffe visa. Han vender tilbage til Afghanistan under dæknavnet Ron Kay og møder Parker, en privat militærentreprenør, der lover støtte i bytte for at finde Ahmed først. Kinley og Ahmed overvinder fare og modstand, og til sidst flygter de sammen med Ahmeds familie til USA. I slutningen af filmen afsløres det, at mange afghanske tolke blev myrdet af Taleban, og tusinder flere er stadig i skjul.

Reggie Lambert's mand er blevet myrdet i Paris, og nu forfølges hun af tre mænd, han har snydt for en formue. Den elegante Peter Joshua tilbyder hende sin hjælp, men han er ikke den, han giver sig ud for at være. Og snart er det ikke til at vide, hvem der snyder hvem. CIA interesserer sig også for sagen, som tilspidses efter yderligere dødsfald.

Den kolde krig raser mellem USA og Rusland. Som udfald af en teknisk fejl beordres en atom-udstyret bombeeskadrille fra det amerikanske forsvar at bombe Moskva. Med alle midler forsøger amerikanerne selv at få standset missionen og dermed undgå startskuddet til en verdensudslettende atomkrig. Den amerikanske præsident tvinges til at træffe en chokerende, men nødvendig beslutning af umenneskelig kaliber.

Det intense drama var Canadas bud på en Bedste Udenlandske Film Oscar. En mors testamente sender hendes to børn ud på en farefuld rejse til mellemøsten for at finde deres rødder. Jeanne får besked på at opspore sin far, mens Simon bliver sendt ud for at finde sin bror. Det bliver ikke bare en personlig rejse, for der er samtidig tale om et mysterium. Familiens fortid rummer dystre hemmeligheder, dybt had, men også evig kærlighed.

Den amerikanske reporter Thomas Anders vender hjem til Los Angeles efter at have været i Irak. Han har mistet flere kollegaer. Nogle venner forventer at en stor konflikt er undervejs, og derfor tager Anders til Georgien. Sammen med sin kameramand Sebastian Ganz dækker han livet i Georgien imens konflikten eskalerer. De bliver fanget i krydsild. Nu må de få deres reportage ud af landet så der skabes opmærksomhed omkring volden der finder sted.

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.

An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

After a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

On the last day of the year, a dispirited work-at-home phone interpreter has her moribund life turned upside down when she answers an unexpected emergency call.

This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herold, the places manager, does little to help Sven familiarize. But when problems accumulate Sven realises that he already has become involved.

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.

Thanasis is part of a mistaken identity featuring an angry brother concerned about his sister's troubled marriage.