20 year old Xiao-Kang develops a neck injury after playing a floating corpse in a polluted river on a film shoot. As his condition worsens his life unravels. His parents try to help but the family has communication issues, his father is secretly gay, his mother sexually frustrated and their house is leaking water.
Martin is a devoted football fan whose life drastically changes during the European football championships in 1996. He loses his job and splits up with his girlfriend but his bad luck turns with England's success on the pitch and he encounters a mysterious beautiful woman called Rosie.
Private Ivan Chonkin, a man of little intelligence and great taste for women, is assigned to guard a downed plane during WWII. But soon it seems his superiors have forgotten about him and Chonkin moves into his lover Nyura's house in a nearby village, something the neighbours are not too happy about.
Terminally ill Gavin is being cared for by his housemates in his final days. After his death a household full of friends and family turn to drinking and drugs and are dragged down in a world of grief where envy, betrayal and desire work as reactions to death.
François is a lonely middle-class nobody who, after winning the French lottery, offers a beautiful prostitute, ?100,000 a month to be his companion. Daniela accepts the offer and satisfies him in every way possible, but soon the fact that she is only with him because of the money, starts to consume François mind.
Martin is a devoted football fan whose life drastically changes during the European football championships in 1996. He loses his job and splits up with his girlfriend but his bad luck turns with England's success on the pitch and he encounters a mysterious beautiful woman called Rosie.
20 year old Xiao-Kang develops a neck injury after playing a floating corpse in a polluted river on a film shoot. As his condition worsens his life unravels. His parents try to help but the family has communication issues, his father is secretly gay, his mother sexually frustrated and their house is leaking water.
Private Ivan Chonkin, a man of little intelligence and great taste for women, is assigned to guard a downed plane during WWII. But soon it seems his superiors have forgotten about him and Chonkin moves into his lover Nyura's house in a nearby village, something the neighbours are not too happy about.
Terek is in high school, enjoying making super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. Then the Lebanese civil war breaks out dividing Beirut into East and West. At first the war is an adventure; the school is closed and the violence fascinating but as they come of age adventure turns to tragedy. Winner of the International Film Critics award at Toronto Film Festival and the François Chalais Award at Cannes Film Festival 1998.
A documentary style drama showing the events leading up to Januray 30, 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland. 13 people where killed by British troops in a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper.
Reese, a young broke actress, is offered a small fortune to publish love letters written by her diseased mother to her father. They are both well known authors. Reese goes to her father's house to pick up the letters and finds that one of his female students and a musician has moved in with him.
