Jake, a neurotic screenwriter with a faltering career, escapes to Brighton and a life of hedonism with his best friend Duke. Meanwhile Jojo, a petty thief, steals one of Jake's screenplays and quickly becomes the talk of the town.
Erika is a highly respected piano teacher at the Conservatory in Vienna with strong masochistic sexual needs. Her icy personality however, has left her so far without husband or lover but one day Erika realises that one of her students is trying to seduce her.
Martin is thrown into jail where he's taught to play the sax by a fellow inmate and once released, he decides to start a swing band. Apart from a bassist, a drummer and a brass section, Martin needs the talents of Joan, a beautiful singer who also happens to be the love of his life.
Six year old Iris arrives at a remote boarding school where all the girls are kept under strict rules and identified by coloured bands in their hair. It becomes clear that they being trained for some type of future responsibility but they have no idea what it is or why
The lives and paths of Tony, an obsessive film director, Ted, a contemplative talk show host and the actress Marie. They come dramatically together when the premiere of Tony's film becomes the target of bomb threats by the vengeful religious Right.
Filip buys a camera to document his baby daughter, but focus is taken off the little girl and instead he starts documenting practically everything. Soon, Filip's new hobby turns into an obsession which ultimately threatens to ruin his life. Winner of the Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival.
Jake, a neurotic screenwriter with a faltering career, escapes to Brighton and a life of hedonism with his best friend Duke. Meanwhile Jojo, a petty thief, steals one of Jake's screenplays and quickly becomes the talk of the town.
Martin is thrown into jail where he's taught to play the sax by a fellow inmate and once released, he decides to start a swing band. Apart from a bassist, a drummer and a brass section, Martin needs the talents of Joan, a beautiful singer who also happens to be the love of his life.
Justo, a mediocre comedian, is offered a lead role in a film by a drug-addled director called Aitor. Unfortunately Aitor overdoses at the dinner table shortly after making the offer upon which Justo's health-food obsessed wife Iris, decides to put the corpse on ice in the bathtub.
We follow Jeremiah as he is bounced between his foster parents, his grandparents and a vagabond existence on the road with his young mother. Passing through endless drug dens, shotgun shacks, fleapit motels and strip joints populated by low-lives, predators, junkies and criminals.
Erika is a highly respected piano teacher at the Conservatory in Vienna with strong masochistic sexual needs. Her icy personality however, has left her so far without husband or lover but one day Erika realises that one of her students is trying to seduce her.
When Patsy, the mother of a big family, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, her four children gather to care for her in her final days. For the first time in fifteen years, the whole family is together under one roof and everyone's differing personalities add tension to the already strained situation.