Socialist work ethic meets youthful exuberance and lightheartedness where backbreaking labor does not ruin anyone's summer vacation.

The thrilling reality of an autistic and blind boy who accepts life with a smile.

After graduating from the institute, one of the two friends of different profiles, Levon, will go to work in the distant mines, and the incumbent Karlen takes the chair of the head, but this does not bring him happiness.

A "Kaladont" toothpaste commercial.

The elderly Isabel Cardoso works in the kitchen of a nursery school. Her hands are worn, her memory sharp and heavy with grief. In moments of stillness she reaches across the divide, communicating with her deceased mother through the stirring winds, the rippling surface of water, the cracked earth. A richly intimate documentary mosaic of the strength, struggle and transcendence of black womanhood.

Back in late 1963, a Belgian nun known only as Soeur Sourire, or Sister Smile, topped America's pop music charts with the relentlessly cheerful tune "Dominique," from an album of 12 songs that sold 1.5 million copies. From the little that is known of the ill-fated nun's life, Italy-based American writer-director Roger Deutsch has made the boldly speculative yet persuasive Italian-language film "Suor Sorriso" in which the nun (Ginevra Colonna) emerges as a tormented, unstable woman who abruptly left the convent after her recording triumph before taking her final vows. Running a shelter for wayward girls, she and another ex-nun (Simona Caparrini) enter a passionate, tumultuous and destructive affair. Colonna's volcanic Deckers craves spiritual redemption as well as the other woman's love but is so beset by demons that she embarks on a flamboyant, drug-fueled downward spiral that ultimately engulfs her lover as well as herself.

Tuomas, a man in his thirties, has lost everything in Thailand – his family, his possessions and the trust of his friends. Hoping to qualify for an early age pension in his native Finland, Tuomas is in such a bad shape that even his legs can’t support his skeletal body anymore. Will anything change when Tuomas’s friends decide to help the man with a drinking problem for one last time and set out to get him home from the streets of Thailand?

This locally-made South African film is a collection of candid-camera style skits designed to trap the unwary for the enjoyment of the audience.

When Anna Svetlova accidentally bumps into her former student, now a military pilot, memories of past events come flooding back to her in a second. Twenty years ago, after graduating from college, Anna's first job was teaching literature in a secondary school

Harin (19), a repeater, wanders because she cannot find what she wants to do. For her, who dreamed of traveling to a distant city, a theater ticket comes in instead of leave city. Curiosity and passion for acting begin to sprout in Harin's heart after seeing an actress performing on stage. Invited to the theater company's practice room, Harin becomes more and more immersed in acting. Harin begins to step on the path of an actor step by step with the desire to be applauded on stage, but obstacles that can never be overcome appear in front of her.

Smile, and the World Will Smile Back”, a documentary film by the al-Haddad family of Hebron made in collaboration with Ehab Tarabieh and Yoav Gross – volunteer photographers in B'Tselem's camera project and filmmakers, respectively – is to be screened as part of the short film competition at the Berlinale International Film Festival. The film documents one winter’s night at the al-Haddad home in the Palestinian town of Hebron. A group of soldiers arrives for a routine night search there, for reasons unknown to the family. Diaa and Shatha al-Hadaad, brother and sister, pick up the home video camera and record the events as they unfold throughout the night. The soldiers force Diaa to stand facing a wall, saying they won’t leave unless he stops smiling.

This tongue-in-cheek variation on the popular theme of the mysterious smile on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting narrates the Maestro's difficulties in trying to make his apathetic bourgeois model smile. In the end, the handsome youth Andrea comes to the rescue.

Sent on assignment to write a report on a scientist from an industrial complex, Caius, an established author, bumps into former schoolmate Cosma. Together they attend the press junket, discovering the subject of Caius’ assignment to be none other than their former university crush, Irina. The joyful reunion takes them to their old haunts, but once Cosma leaves, the remaining couple head down memory lane, spending the evening confronting each other with their conflicted shared history of love and abandonment. Between Caius’ enduring charm and Irina’s guarded independence, their romantic two-step will finally bring them requited closure.

Myia and Aristote live from gluglu hunting. These cloud-animals allow them to grow courgettes in the desert. One day, Myia falls in love with one of them …

A teenage girl moves with her parents to Yakutsk from the ulus. Adults settle in a new place, and the teenager goes to a new school. Parents are immersed in their complex relationships, so they do not want to notice the problems and loneliness of their daughter. The guy spends all day aimlessly hanging around the streets with friends, just to spend as little time at home as possible. But his alcoholic mother and disabled brother are waiting for him at home. The only person who supports him and for whom he lives. Father and son. His father's profession is "Clown", and he wants more. He's smart, purposeful. His dream is to break free, to another world. They will be connected by an accident and will be reminded that you should be more attentive to your loved ones, that in difficult life situations it is worth remembering that there is always a way out!

An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.

This is a story about one street performance and two artists - a tightrope walker and a violinist, whose friendship turned into rivalry, and the violinist decided to take revenge. How far will he be able to go in her incarnation?

The film is based on a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov: "Things fell out of the bag On the floor. And I think That the world is Only a grin That glows On the lips of a hanged man."