Een verhaal van liefde en verraad tegen de achtergrond van de snel veranderende Japanse maatschappij in de 20ste eeuw. De 9-jaar oude Chiyo is de dochter van een arme visser en wordt van haar familie gescheiden en verkocht aan een geisha-huis in het Gion-district van Kyoto. Hier is ze het mikpunt van de grillen van hoofd-geisha Hatsumomo, maar zij weet zich te verzetten en groeit met hulp van Hatsumomo's concurrente Mameha uit tot de beroemdste geisha van Japan.

An otherwise rejected or ignored boy creates a fantasy pal from his martial arts movie hero.

Conductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training. The film gives a unique viewpoint to follow the students, as this is the first film about conductor training at the Sibelius Academy.

In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dali Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.