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- 1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.
- Based on a short story by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, the central idea developed by director Dasgupta, tells the story of a girl, Lati, whose mother Rajani is a prostitute living and working in a brothel in rural India. Rajani plans to offer her daughter to an older man, a rich husband and protector to her daughter. Lati, however, wants to return to school and finish her studies. Unwilling to pay such a price for material success, she runs away to Calcutta. The discovery of this new world is described parallel to other stories of emancipation, such as that of three young prostitutes, of an aged couple going nowhere and man's n landing on the moon. In a surrealistic approach typical of the director, a clumsy cat and an intelligent donkey are also present in the film.
- David is a teenager like any other. His world is filled with loud music and imaginary encounters. His mother away and his father nowhere to be found, David is forced to stay on his uncle's farm, where life lacks the excitement he craves.
- Myriam is a French Jew and a holocaust survivor. Sixty years after her imprisonment in Auschwitz she decides to do something daring. She returns there to finally confront her painful past. At Auschwitz she meets another person who is looking for answers-a young German photographer Oskar, whose grandfather was an SS officer.
- An aging actress hires a cameraman on the street and makes a life confession to him. In this 90-minute monologue, she describes the highs and lows of her career and life before setting off on a new life.
- An aspiring writer can't deal with the fact that no publisher is willing to publish his debut novel. Therefore, he decides to draw the public's attention by committing a series of spectacular and highly media-savvy crimes.
- Barbara is a successful middle aged woman - a respected architect, a great mother and wife, has good friends; leads the good life in Berlin. Out of nowhere seemingly, but definitely out of her past, Ilke appears - her daughter from a relationship with a Turkish immigrant some 25 years ago. Ilke was raised by her father, who became a wealthy businessman and educated Ilke at Europe's best schools, but without the benefit of a mother. After the Turk's death, Ilke comes to Berlin with a great deal of cash. Through a detective with mysterious contacts, one day Ilke walks into Barbara's life, and family, and is quickly accepted. However, as past details are revealed, Barbara in particular has to face what she had set aside so long ago.
- Annika, who has been in a coma for ten years since a car accident at the age of 18, wakes up. Looking through the eyes of a young girl, she sees a world in which everything and everyone has changed.
- After his stay in a psychiatric hospital the poet Hölderin spends the next 36 years in the care of carpenter Ernst Zimmer, while still writing poems under the name "Scardanelli".
- In a television talk show, the Bogenbauers appear as the happiest family in Germany. But behind the bourgeois facade there is a crisis - in the marriage and in the lives of the children
- Sixty-two buildings by the American architect Bruce Goff.
- A young German girl discovers that her parents and little sister might have been killed while traveling in Eastern Europe. She and her friends set out in a desperate journey to the remotest part of Romania where they stumble on the horrifying secret of an illegal food scam...