A brutal portrayal of the post 9/11 world set in a small English town. Three teenage boys are drawn into a world of drugs, violence and temptation in complete ignorance of their boundaries. Accompanied by the Iraq war, their raging horrifies a sleepy community.
The young Parisian Stéphane´s father has just passed away and he leaves his hometown for Romania. He is determined to find the unrecorded gypsy singer Nora Luca, to whom his father listened to before he died. It turns out Stéphane is going to find much more on his journey than what he first set out to find.
Danny is a young aspiring football player who decides to take Salsa classes in order to improve his rhythm and flexibility on the pitch. In Salsa class Danny falls for the beautiful and talented Lucy, but she has a boyfriend who happens to play for a rival team.
Amélie returns to Japan where she spent five years of her life before her family moved back to Europe. She gets a job translating for the giant Yumimoto Corporation but her unawareness of local customs leads to a series of cultural mishaps and she is soon singled out as a deviant. Sylvie Testud won multiple best actress awards for her performance.
When Wilson's wife Liza commits suicide he can't bring himself to read what seems to be her suicide note. Fixed in a state of grief Wilson soon develops an addiction to inhaling gasoline fume. His mother in law does her best to help whilst dealing with her own loss and an increasing need to know the content of her daughters note. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Armelle has recently lost her boyfriend in a motorcycle accident but keeps having encounters with what she believes is his ghost. When Armelle, acting on her sister's advice, goes to see a medium, she meets a man who's the spitting image of her deceased love.
Jack and Julie are two young lovers who move to Paris with no other aims than to stroll the Parisian boulevards and make love. When Jack starts working night time driving a cab, Julie meets Joseph, another taxi driver who works the day shift. Soon she begins a night time affair with Joseph while spending the day times with Jack. Chantal Akerman (90).
Danny is a young aspiring football player who decides to take Salsa classes in order to improve his rhythm and flexibility on the pitch. In Salsa class Danny falls for the beautiful and talented Lucy, but she has a boyfriend who happens to play for a rival team.
The young Parisian Stéphane´s father has just passed away and he leaves his hometown for Romania. He is determined to find the unrecorded gypsy singer Nora Luca, to whom his father listened to before he died. It turns out Stéphane is going to find much more on his journey than what he first set out to find.
When a young freelance writer in Tokyo chooses life as a single mother, her family show little understanding towards her decision. Instead she finds comfort in her friendship with a book store owner who secretly desires her. This portrait of metropolitan loneliness is a tribute to Japanese film maker Yasujiro Ozu.
The people in a Jewish village realize that the Nazis are on their way to send them to death camp and the inhabitants create a fake deportation. They purchase a train and pose as both soldiers and prisoners in order to reach Palestine.
Cynthia brakes up with her drug abusing boyfriend Buck and gets a job taking care of Eleanor; a rich woman dying of cancer. They become friends but Cynthia can't help envy Eleanor's luxury. After some time Cynthia realizes she is still in love with Buck and convinces him to enchant Eleanor, who doesn't know about their relationship, to gain favour in her will.
